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Genus Victoriana

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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 Victoriana
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
members of this genus used to be treated in Ocyptamus(1)
Explanation of Names
Victoriana Miranda 2020
Numbers
?2 spp. in our area, 13 total(1)
Range
neotropical group ranging into se US
Works Cited
1.New generic concepts for orphaned lineages formerly treated as part of the genus Ocyptamus Macquart, 1834 (Diptera, Syrphidae)
Gonçalves Miranda G.P., Skevington J.H., Marshall S. 2020. Zootaxa 4822(2): 151-174.
Contributed by Even Dankowicz on 10 January, 2021 - 9:20pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 July, 2021 - 2:04pm

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