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Checklist and ecology of hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) - pollinators of some flowering plants in Lower Priamurye
VA Mutin (1983a)
pp 86-99 in RG Soboleva (ed) Obzor otdel'nykh otryadov nasekomykh Dal'nego Vostoka [Systematics and ecologicalfaunistic review of insect Orders in the Far East], Academy of Sciences of USSR, Vladivostok, USSR
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[Headings of Table 1]
Salix caprea + bibiana (=xerophila), Caltha membranacea, Fragaria orientalis, Rosa acicularis, Rosa dahurica, Sorbaria
sorbifolia, Angelica amurensis, Senecio cannabifolius, Hieracium umbellatum
In the anthophile complex of Caltha membranacea I recorded 48 species of hoverfly from 22 genera. In the
conditions of Lower Priamurye, hoverflies are general pollinators of this plant. Thus other effective pollinators (other
Diptera, bees) are only rarely on Caltha flowers. On the flowers which grow along forest streams, among the hoverflies
some species of the genus Cheilosia were dominant. Their relative abundance varied from 40 to 55% during the period
of flowering. The proportions of subdominants changed during the flowering period of this plant (see Table 2). The
checklist of the anthophile complex of Caltha is very unusual, and notably the following species were only recorded on
this plant: ‘Platycheirus immarginatus’ (is a light female albimanus), Platycheirus ovalis, Melanostoma dubium (note
this is Ohara’s Platycheirus immaculatus - see Mutin 1986), Sphegina clunipes (note this is S. claviventris), Sphegina
eoa (now synonymised to montana), Lejota ruficornis (now split to add korsakovi), Helleniola nigra (now
Chrysosyrphus nigrum), and Chalcosyrphus jacobsoni.
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