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Mallota

Meyer, Marc De;Goergen, Georg;Midgley, John;Jordaens, Kurt

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Mallota is a widely distributed Holarctic genus of hoverfly (a member of the fly family Syrphidae), well known for their bee-like appearance.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilySyrphidae
Observations recorded2,478

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
86
With media
32
Family
Syrphidae
Collections
UAM, CHAS, PSUC, FMNH, KU, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLECTION OF ARTHOPODS (UCFC)
Recorded in
United States, Canada, Venezuela, Peru, Brasil, Malaysia

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Encyclopedic overview

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Mallota is a widely distributed Holarctic genus of hoverfly (a member of the fly family Syrphidae), well known for their bee-like appearance.

==Species== M. abdominalis Sack, 1927 M. aenigma Bezzi, 1912 M. albipilis Snow, 1895 M. albipes Snow, 1895 M. bautias (Walker, 1849) M. bequaerti Hull, 1956 M. bicolor Sack, 1910 M. cimbiciformis (Fallén, 1817) M. cingulata Sack, 1927 M. curvigaster (Macquart, 1842) M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819) M. dusmeti Andreu, 1925 M. extrema (Loew, 1858) M. fuciformis (Fabricius, 1794) M. hirsuta Hull, 1941 M. illinoensis Robertson, 1901 M. inopinata Violovich, 1975 M. megilliformis (Fallén, 1817) M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941 M. mississipensis Hull, 1946 M. munda Violovich, 1955 M. orientalis Wiedemann, 1824 M. posticata (Fabricius, 1805) M. rossica Portschinsky, 1877 M. rubripes Matsumura, 1916 M. sackeni Williston, 1882 M. shatalkini Mutin, 1999 M. spinosa Hirooka & Maruyama, 2015 M. thompsoni Hirooka & Maruyama, 2015 M. tricolor Loew, 1871 M. vilis Wiedemann, 1830 ("Non-European Two-Winged Insects as a Continuation of Meigen's Work. Second Part.") M. viridiflavescentis Huo & Ren, 2006

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