Trichopsomyia
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Trichopsomyia flavitarsisIllustration in British Entomology | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Superfamily: | Syrphoidea |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Subfamily: | Pipizinae |
Tribe: | Pipizini |
Genus: | Trichopsomyia Williston, 1888[1] |
Type species | |
Trichopsomyia is a genus of Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae (flower flies), in the order Diptera.[2][3]
Biology[]
Hover flies like the Trichopsomyia are small flies with large heads and eyes, and small antennae. Their bodies are medium to slender, with a waist that is not significantly narrow, unless it is a wasp mimicking species. They have one pair of clear wings, and the banded forms have yellow and black bands. Hoverflies resemble wasps or bees because of their black and yellow-striped abdomens. However, they are actually members of a fly family that have evolved to mimic wasps and bees for protection.[4]
Hoverfly larvae are flattened, legless and maggot-like. Most are green or brown in colour. They are carnivorous and eat aphids.
Species[]
- Walker, 1849
- (Johnson, 1907)
- T. flavitarsis (Meigen, 1822)[5]
- Goeldlin, 1997
- Vockeroth, 1988
- (Meigen, 1822)[5]
- (Curran, 1924)
- (Townsend, 1897)
- Williston, 1888[1]
- (Loew, 1863)
- (Walker, 1852)
- (Curran, 1921)
- (Curran, 1924)
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References[]
- ^ a b c Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 15: 243–292. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
- ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 253, xvpp.
- ^ "Hover flies".
- ^ a b Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
Categories:
- Diptera of Europe
- Diptera of North America
- Pipizinae
- Hoverfly genera
- Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston