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Pelecocera
Sign in to savePelecocera is a Holarctic genus of Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. Antennae with segment 3 a half moon shape (flat above, only rounded below) or triangular, in the female the arista very thick, spike-like, inserted at the anterior extremity of segment 3. They are small black and yellow or orange flies found mainly on heaths.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilySyrphidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Collections
- MCGILL UNIVERSITY, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ARTHROPOD COLLECTION, NHMUK, SDNHM, MZLU
- Recorded in
- United States, United Kingdom, Tunisia
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- småblomsterfluer
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Pelecocera is a Holarctic genus of Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. Antennae with segment 3 a half moon shape (flat above, only rounded below) or triangular, in the female the arista very thick, spike-like, inserted at the anterior extremity of segment 3. They are small black and yellow or orange flies found mainly on heaths.
==Species== Pelecocera apichaetus (Curran, 1923) Pelecocera escorialensis Strobl, 1909 Pelecocera latifrons Loew, 1856 Pelecocera lugubris Perris, 1839 Pelecocera pergandei (Williston, 1884) Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) now Chamaesyrphus Pelecocera tricincta Meigen, 1822 Pelecocera willistoni Snow, 1895
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