Eumerus tuberculatus

{{Short description|Species of fly}} {{Speciesbox | image = Lesser Bulb Fly, Potomac, MD, USA imported from iNaturalist photo 272439716.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Eumerus tuberculatus | authority = Rondani, 1857<ref name="szmn"> {{cite web |url=http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |title=Collection of Siberian Zoological Museum: Syrphidae |last=Barkalov |first=A.V. |publisher=Siberian Zoological Museum |accessdate=19 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |archivedate=20 October 2008 }}</ref> | synonyms = }}

'''''Eumerus tuberculatus''''', the '''lesser bulb fly''' (a common name shared by several species of this genus) is a species of hoverfly from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. It is a pest that destroys the bulbs of ''Narcissus''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stubbs, Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J.|year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society}}</ref><ref name="VanVeen">{{cite book |last= Van Veen |first= M.P. |title= Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae |type= hardback |year= 2004 |publisher= KNNV Publishing |location= Utrecht |isbn= 978-90-5011-199-7 |pages= 254 }}</ref>

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== Further reading == * [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/esa/aesa/1935/00000028/00000004/art00003 CREAGER, D. B.; SPRUIJT, F. J. THE RELATION OF CERTAIN FUNGI TO LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUMERUS TUBERCULATUS ROND. (Syrphidae, Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 28, Number 4, December 1935, pp. 425-437(13)] * [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2480044&fileId=S0007485300019477 W. E. H. Hodson. The Bionomics of the Lesser Bulb Flies, Eumerus strigatus, Flyn., and Eumerus tuberculatus, Rond., in South–west England. Bulletin of Entomological Research. Volume 17 Issue 04 June 1927 pp 373-384]

Category:Insects described in 1857 Category:Eumerini Category:Flies of Europe Category:Taxa named by Camillo Rondani Category:Flies of New Zealand Category:Insect pests of ornamental plants