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Genus Epistrophe

Striped fly - Epistrophe grossulariae - male

Epistrophe grossulariae? - Epistrophe grossulariae

Diptera. Syrphidae. - Epistrophe grossulariae - female

Epistrophe grossulariae male? - Epistrophe grossulariae - male

Epistrophe grossulariae ? - Epistrophe grossulariae - female

Syrphid - Epistrophe grossulariae - male

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 Epistrophe

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

treated in(1) to include Epistrophella as subgenus

Explanation of Names

Epistrophe Walker 1852

Numbers

6 spp. in our area(2)

Internet References

Taxon page(2)

Works Cited

1.	Skevington J.H. (2014) Nearctic Syrphidae checklist

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 tom murray on 28 August, 2005 - 5:14pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 18 December, 2014 - 9:32am

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