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Genus Dasysyrphus

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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 Dasysyrphus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our spp. revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Dasysyrphus Enderlein 1938
Numbers
in our area, 11 spp. + unknown number of spp. in the unresolved intrudens complex; >40 spp. total(1) [13 spp. in our area per(2)]
Size
Body 5.0–11.7 mm, wing 4.5–11.4 mm(1)
Range
New World (primarily NA) + Eurasia, rather poorly represented in the tropics(1)
Internet References
Taxon page(2)
Works Cited
1.Revision of Nearctic Dasysyrphus Enderlein (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Locke M.M., Skevington J.H. 2013. Zootaxa 3660: 1–80.
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 Beatriz Moisset on 13 June, 2005 - 7:34am
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 19 January, 2014 - 7:49pm

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