| Eristalinus sepulchralis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Eristalinus |
| Species: | E. sepulchralis
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| Binomial name | |
| Eristalinus sepulchralis | |
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Eristalinus sepulchralis is a European species of hoverfly. The species are brownish-white from a close up, and look like a wasp.[1] From a distance though, they are yellowish-black coloured, and look like a bumble bee.[2] The species can be found throughout Europe in the Baltic states, North Europe, Central, Southern and Western Europe and across the Palaearctic to Kamchatka, Japan, China and India.[3] Finland, Great Britain,[4] Hungary, Ireland, Norway, and the Netherlands.[5][6]
- ^ Close up description
- ^ From a distance
- ^ Ernst, Torp (1984). De Danske svirrefluer (Diptera: Syrphidae). Fauna Boger. pp. 300pp. ISBN 9788788738001.
- ^ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ^ Distribution
- ^ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.