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Habitat Associations of the Larvae of the Genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) with Xylobiont Insects

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The paper presents the first data on the life histories of the larvae of five species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) and their habitat associations with other xylobiont larvae of ambrosia insects: xylomycetophagous bark beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), flies of the families Axymyiidae and Syrphidae (Diptera), and other insects. The biotopes of Sphegina larvae are divided into two types: the main biotope where larval development takes place and the additional biotope where pupation occurs.

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Original Russian Text © N.P. Krivosheina, 2018, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2018, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp. 434–441.

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Krivosheina, N.P. Habitat Associations of the Larvae of the Genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) with Xylobiont Insects. Entmol. Rev. 98, 709–713 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873818060076

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