Cheilosia ( Taeniochilosia ) grisella Becker, 1894

Bot, Sander, Mengual, Ximo, Meutter, Frank Van de & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2025, Review of the genus Cheilosia Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Caucasus, with the description of 14 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1023, pp. 1-181 : 158

Cheilosia ( Taeniochilosia) grisella Becker, 1894

Remarks

All published references of this species in the Caucasus are based on Stackelberg & Richter (1968). Barkalov (1993) reidentified their material as C. aenigmatosa . Although he reported the species again later ( Barkalov & Ståhls 1997), this is an error (A.V. Barkalov, pers. com.) and C. grisella should be treated as absent from the Caucasus.

Genetics

DNA barcodes of European specimens of C. grisella were grouped together with high support (BS = 98.7%). The cluster with the barcodes of Cheilosia lukashovae (BS = 100%) was placed sister to the barcodes cluster of C. grisella with high support (BS = 100%).

Distribution

Central Europe (Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians) south to Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia, and eastwards to Romania and Bulgaria.