Cheilosia (Cheilosia) gigantea (Zetterstedt, 1838)

Khaganinia, S. & Kazerani, F., 2014, A Review Of The Genus Cheilosia (Diptera, Syrphidae) From Iran, Vestnik Zoologii 48 (5), pp. 401-410 : 403

Cheilosia (Cheilosia) gigantea n (Zetterstedt, 1838)

D i s t r i b u t i o n. From From Fennoscandia southwards to the Alps; Germany eastwards through northern and central Europe (plus northern Italy and the former Yugoslavia) into European territory of Russia and from Ukraine to the Caucasus; in Siberia from the Urals to the Pacific coast; Iran ( Gilasian, 2005).

Diagnostic characters. Eye with pale hairs in apical half; third antennal segment black; face without distinct hairs (microtrichia not taken into account); median facial tubercle narrower, sharply convex forwards; mesoscutum entirely covered with erected black hairs or with mixed black and yellow hairs through the length; posterior margin of scutellum with black or yellow bristles distinctly more robust than surrounding hairs; fore coxa without tooth, at least 1st segment of mid tarsus or bases of tibiae yellowish.