Volucella is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward.[3] They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators.[4]
| Volucella | |
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| Volucella pellucens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Tribe: | Volucellini |
| Genus: | Volucella Geoffroy, 1762[1] |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Macrostoma Swinderen, 1822 | |
Selected species
edit- Volucella anastasia Hull, 1946
- Volucella arctica Johnson, 1916[5]
- Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella dracaena Curran
- Volucella elegans Loew, 1862
- Volucella eugenia Williston, 1887
- Volucella evecta Walker, 1852 [5]
- Volucella facialis Williston, 1882 [5]
- Volucella inanis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella inflata (Fabricius, 1794)
- Volucella jeddona Bigot, 1875
- Volucella linearis Walker, 1849[6]
- Volucella liquida Erichson in Wagner, 1841
- Volucella lutzi Curran, 1930
- Volucella matsumurai Han & Choi, 2001[6]
- Volucella nigricans Coquillett, 1898
- Volucella nigropicta Portschinsky, 1884
- Volucella pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella plumatoides Hervé-Bazin, 1923
- Volucella suzukii Matsumura, 1916 [6]
- Volucella tau Bigot, 1883
- Volucella unipunctata Curran, 1926
- Volucella zonaria (Poda, 1761)
Gallery
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Volucella bombylans var. bombylans female -
Volucella bombylans var. plumata female -
Volucella inanis female -
Volucella pellucens female -
Volucella inflata female -
Volucella zonaria female
References
edit- ^ Geoffroy, E.L. (1762). Histoire abregee des insectes ... de Paris. , . Vol. 2, . Paris: Durand. pp. 690 pp., pls 11-22. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ Evenhuis, Neal L. (2020). "The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano". Zootaxa. 4859 (3): 383–396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4. PMID 33056189.
- ^ Coe, R.L. (1953). Diptera: Syrphidae, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 10 Pt 1. Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 98pp.
- ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ^ a b c Skevington, Jeffrey H (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. ISBN 9780691189406.
- ^ a b c Ichige, Katsuyoshi. "Japanese Hoverfly photograph collection". Mito-city, Japan. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
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