Caliprobola speciosa (Rossi, 1790)

Prokhorov, A. V., Popov, G. V. & Zaika, M. I., 2018, Rare Species Of Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) From Ukraine. Ii. Callicerini, Cerioidini And Milesiini, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 9 (2), pp. 15-22 : 18

Caliprobola speciosa (Rossi, 1790) ( Fig. 4)

Lezhenina, 1993: 62 ( Calliprobola ) (Kharkiv Reg.).

Material examined from Ukraine: Zakarpattia Region: Kamianytsia env., 48.70N 22.43E, Uzh River valley (left bank), 9– 10.05.2017, roads in deciduous forest, 4 ♂, 1 ♀ (A. Prokhorov) ; Kyiv Region: Kyiv: Muromets Is. on Dnipro River , 50.52N 30.55E, 18.05.2016, near felled trunk of overmature Salix alba , 1 ♂ (M. Zaika); idem, 26.05.2016, 2 ♂ (A. Prokhorov) .

Distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria,

? Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany,

Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, European Russia,

Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine; Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Turkey, East Siberia (Transbaikalia)

( Stackelberg & Richter, 1968; Peck, 1988; Lezhenina,

1993; Dirickx, 1994; Holinka & Mazánek, 1997; Reemer,

2000; Mielczarek, 2009; Reemer et al., 2009; Saribiyik,

2014; Speight, 2017).

Notes. Caliprobola speciosa is narrowly localized and rare in Ukraine. This is possibly one of the rarest and at the same time large and beautiful species in Europe that need protection. In Great Britain, this species is qualified as Near Threatened ( Ball & Morris, 2014). It is considered to be endangered in Spain ( Marcos-Garcia, 2006).