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Genus Pipiza

Dark Fly - Pipiza - male Syrphid Flies Genus Pipiza Female - Pipiza - female A second Banff Syrphid - Pipiza quadrimaculata - male Syrphid Flies Genus Pipiza - Pipiza - male Pipiza? Male? - Pipiza - male Potential Pipiza femoralis in Saskatoon - Pipiza Pipiza - Pipiza puella - female Pipiza femoralis - Pipiza - 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 Pipizinae
Genus Pipiza
Explanation of Names
Pipiza Fallén 1810
Numbers
11 spp. in our area(1)
Size
5-9 mm
Range
in our area, most of NA(1)
Internet References
Wiley Online Library. Systematics of Pipizini and taxonomy of European Pipiza Fallén: molecular and morphological evidence (Diptera, Syrphidae)
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.