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Genus Meligramma

slender flower fly - Meligramma guttata - female

slender flower fly - Meligramma guttata - male

Meligramma? - Meligramma cincta - female

Meligramma? - Meligramma triangulifera - female

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 Meligramma

Explanation of Names

Meligramma Frey 1946

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(1)

Range

holarctic; in our area, northern transcontinental, south to VA in the east, to CA-NM in the west(1)

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 v belov on 16 December, 2013 - 8:36am
Last updated 20 January, 2014 - 4:44pm

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