Melanostoma wollastoni

The hoverfly

Melanostoma wollastoni is a diptera first described by Wakeham-dawson, Aguiar, Smit, Mccullough ngan Colin W.

True flies have one pair of wings. The group includes hoverflies, mosquitoes, and midges; habits follow the family, not the order name.

An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.

Range and habitat

Melanostoma wollastoni is recorded from Portugal.

GBIF currently lists 18 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Life history

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

Melanostoma wollastoni is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the Waray Wikipedia article on Melanostoma wollastoni, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q14514054 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.