Tribe Bacchini

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Food · Remarks

Syrphid on composite - Platycheirus - male

Syrphid Flies Genus Platycheirus - Platycheirus hyperboreus - female

possible hornhand sedgesitter female - Pyrophaena granditarsis - female

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

Numbers

6 genera in our area, 11 genera total

Identification

Smallish hoverflies, with variable amounts of yellow marking. Wings often held over the abdomen when resting

Food

Larvae predatory, often on aphids

Remarks

Contributed by Richard Leung on 10 March, 2005 - 7:27pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 14 December, 2013 - 12:27pm

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