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Genus Cheilosia

Another Lance Fly, but different eye color? - Cheilosia

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Eristalinae

Tribe Rhingiini

Subtribe Cheilosiina

Genus Cheilosia

Explanation of Names

Cheilosia Meigen 1838

Numbers

>80 spp. in our area(1), >300 total

Food

Those that are known feed in the stems of plants or in fungi.

Remarks

Ch. corydon or Ch. grossa, the Thistle Stem Hover Fly, introduced in Oregon to control invasive thistles (Rizza et al. 1988)

Internet References

Taxon page(1)

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 tom murray on 6 September, 2005 - 4:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 11 February, 2021 - 9:44am

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