Orthonevra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Orthonevra
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Orthonevra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Orthonevra
Orthonevra is a genus of flies in the family Syrphidae They are worldwide in distribution with at least 59 species identified concentrated mainly in eastern North America and Europe. Species of the genus Orthonevra are commonly called mucksuckers after the larvae which have been found in organic rich mud, i.e. muck. This genus belongs to the tribe Brachyopini that includes the prominent genera Melanogaster, Brachyopa, Neoascia and Sphegina.
...Orthonevra in languages:
- English
- Mucksuckers
- Finnish
- hammasvaskiset
- Hungarian
- patakzengőlegyek
- Swedish
- glansblomflugor
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Orthonevra bellula
- Orthonevra brevicornis
- Orthonevra chilensis
- Orthonevra elegans
- Orthonevra erythrogona
- Orthonevra feei
- Orthonevra formosana
- Orthonevra frontalis
- Orthonevra geniculata
- Orthonevra incisa
- Orthonevra intermedia
- Orthonevra karumaiensis
- Orthonevra longicornis
- Orthonevra minuta
- Orthonevra nigrovittata
- Orthonevra nobilis
- Orthonevra parva
- Orthonevra pictipennis
- Orthonevra plumbago
- Orthonevra quadristriata
- Orthonevra robusta
- Orthonevra shannoni
- Orthonevra sinuosa
- Orthonevra stackelbergi
- Orthonevra stigmata
- Orthonevra tristis
- Orthonevra unicolor






























































































































































