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Genus Melanostoma

Syrphid/Buttercup - Melanostoma mellinum

3014182 fly - Melanostoma mellinum - female

One of many presumed Melanostoma mellinum nowadays - Melanostoma mellinum - male

Melanostoma mellinum showing ventral abdomen - Melanostoma mellinum - male

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 Bacchini

Genus Melanostoma

Explanation of Names

Melanostoma Schiner 1860

Numbers

a single species in our area(1)

Habitat

herb vegetation, often dominated by grasses [best found by sweeping through the vegetation]

Internet References

Taxon page(1)

Works Cited

1.	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. CJAI 23: 1‒351.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 January, 2005 - 12:30am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 20 January, 2014 - 4:41pm

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