Volucella
| Volucella | |
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| Volucella pellucens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Tribe: | Volucellini |
| Genus: | Volucella Geoffroy, 1762[1] |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Macrostoma Swinderen, 1822 | |
Volucella is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward.[3] They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators.[4]
Selected species[]
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- Hull, 1946
- Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Curran
- Loew, 1862
- Williston, 1887
- Volucella inanis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella inflata (Fabricius, 1794)
- Bigot, 1875
- Walker, 1849[5]
- Erichson in Wagner, 1841
- Curran, 1930
- Han & Choi, 2001[5]
- Coquillett, 1898
- Portschinsky, 1884
- Volucella pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hervé-Bazin, 1923
- Matsumura, 1916 [5]
- Bigot, 1883
- Curran, 1926
- Volucella zonaria (Poda, 1761)
Gallery[]
Volucella bombylans var. bombylans female
Volucella bombylans var. plumata female
Volucella inanis female
Volucella pellucens female
Volucella inflata female
Volucella zonaria female
References[]
- ^ Geoffroy, E.L. (1762). Histoire abregee des insectes ... de Paris. , . Vol. 2, . Paris: Durand. pp. 690 pp., pls 11-22. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ Evenhuis, Neal L. (2020). "The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano". Zootaxa. 4859 (3): 383–396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4. PMID 33056189.
- ^ Coe, R.L. (1953). Diptera: Syrphidae, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 10 Pt 1. Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 98pp.
- ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ^ a b c Ichige, Katsuyoshi. "Japanese Hoverfly photograph collection". Mito-city, Japan. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
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- Hoverfly genera
- Eristalinae
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