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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Epistrophella

Genus Epistrophella

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Internet References · Works Cited
Syrphid Fly - Epistrophella emarginata - female larva feeding on aphids - Epistrophella emarginata Xanthogramma flavipes? - Epistrophella - female Xanthogramma-like Syrphini - Epistrophella Xanthogramma-like Syrphini - Epistrophella Syrphid on white snakeroot - Epistrophella emarginata - female syrphid - Epistrophella - female Predator of Uroleucon nigrotuberculatum - Epistrophella emarginata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Syrphinae
Tribe Syrphini
Genus Epistrophella
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
treated in(1) as a subgenus of Epistrophe
Explanation of Names
Epistrophella Dusek & Laska 1967
Numbers
a single species in our area(2)
Internet References
Taxon page(2)
Works Cited
1.Skevington J.H. (2014) Nearctic Syrphidae checklist
2.Key to the genera of nearctic Syrphidae
Miranda G.F.G, Young A.D., Locke M.M., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C. 2013. Can. J. Arthropod Identification 23: 1‒351.
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 5 July, 2011 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 18 December, 2014 - 9:32am

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