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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Allograpta

Genus Allograpta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Syrphid Fly To ID - Allograpta obliqua - female

Stripetail (Allograpta)? - Allograpta obliqua

Allograpta obliqua? - Allograpta obliqua

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 Allograpta

Explanation of Names

Allograpta Osten-Sacken 1875

Greek allos (αλλος) 'other, different' + graptos (γραπτος) 'painted, marked'

Numbers

3 spp. in our area(1)

Identification

fourth abdominal tergite with two pale oblique stripes in exotica and obliqua (see Fluke 1942: 24) (completely dark in Fazia micrura); male obliqua has pale crescent-shaped band on third abdominal tergite, whereas in female exotica the band is only slightly curved, and is flattened along its base

illustrates the katepisternum color difference between exotica and obliqua.

shows the yellow markings on tergite 2 (present in obliqua, absent in exotica).

Range

A. exotica NC-OR to Argentina (introduced to HI)

A. obliqua QC-WA south to Argentina (introduced to HI)

A. radiata FL + West Indies (introduced to HI)

Food

larvae prey on aphids, but some exotic spp. are herbivorous

See Also

Toxomerus

Print References

Molecular phylogeny (Mengual et al. 2008)

Internet References

Taxon page(1)

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02214p028.pdf. Zootaxa

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. Can. J. Arthropod Identification 23: 1-351.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Chuck Entz, v belov, kbyers
Last updated 9 January, 2016 - 3:31am

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