Species with medial black facial vitta from facial prominence (or from above facial prominence) down to upper mouth edge, basoflagellomere broader than long, abdominal terga entirely pale-haired; metatarsi with basitarsus distinctly longer than tarsomeres 2-4 combined (Speight and Sarthou 2009).
Ferdinandea aurea Rondani, 1844.
Rondani, C. (1844) Proposta della formazione di un genere nuovo per due specie di insetti ditteri. Memoria nona perservir alla ditterologia italiana. Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali di Bologna (2)2: 193-202, pl. 2.
Synonyms:
Ferdinandea nigricornis Rondani, 1844: 202.
Ferdinandea sziladyi Drensky, 1934: 128.
Flowers visited by adults: Dianthus (Speight 2010).
Flight period: beginning of September to mid November (Speight 2010).
Species found in central and southern Spain (and Mallorca), southern France, Italy and Greece, plus Crete (Claussen and Lucas 1988; Speight 2010).
Adult settles on stones and the bare ground of forest paths, in the sun (Speight 2010).
Preferred environment of the adults: forest; ancient / overmature thermophilous (Quercus pubescens) and evergreen oak (Q. ilex / Q. suber) forest; also mesophilous beech (Fagus) forest (Speight 2010).
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