Sphaerophoria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Sphaerophoria
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Sphaerophoria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sphaerophoria
Sphaerophoria is a genus of hoverflies.
Species slender 5.6-12mm long with extremely large hemispherical male terminalia, after which the common name globetail was created (see gallery). There are bright yellow markings on head and thorax and usually on the abdomen but some species have a black abdomen. They can be found worldwide but are common in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. There are over 73 described species.
The larvae--when known--are aphidophagous.
...Sphaerophoria in languages:
- Chinese
- 球蚜蠅屬
- Czech
- pestřenka
- English
- Globetails
- Finnish
- hoikkakirvarit
- French
- Sphaerophores
- Hungarian
- darázslegyek
- Japanese
- ヒメヒラタアブ属
- Russian
- Шароноски
- Swedish
- sländblomflugor
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Afrosyrphus
- Allobaccha
- Allograpta
- Antillus
- Anu
- Asarkina
- Asiobaccha
- Asiodidea
- Atylobaccha
- Austroscaeva
- Betasyrphus
- Calostigma
- Chrysotoxum
- Citrogramma
- Dasysyrphus
- Didea
- Dideoides
- Dideomima
- Dideopsis
- Dioprosopa
- Doros
- Eosalpingogaster
- Eosphaerophoria
- Epistrophe
- Epistrophella
- Episyrphus
- Eriozona
- Eupeodes
- Exallandra
- Fazia
- Flavizona
- Fragosa
- Giluwea
- Hybobathus
- Hypocritanus
- Ischiodon
- Lapposyrphus
- Leucozona
- Maiana
- Megasyrphus
- Melangyna
- Meligramma
- Meliscaeva
- Mimocalla
- Nuntianus
- Ocyptamus
- Orphnabaccha
- Paragus
- Parasyrphus
- Pelecinobaccha
- Philhelius
- Pipunculosyrphus
- Pseudodoros
- Pseudoscaeva
- Relictanum
- Rhinobaccha
- Rhinoprosopa
- Salpingogaster
- Scaeva
- Simosyrphus
- Sphaerophoria
- Syrphus
- Toxomerus
- Victoriana
- Xanthogramma
Child Taxa
- Loveridgeana
- Sphaerophoria abbreviata
- Sphaerophoria asymmetrica
- Sphaerophoria bankowskae
- Sphaerophoria batava
- Sphaerophoria bengalensis
- Sphaerophoria bifasciata
- Sphaerophoria bifurcata
- Sphaerophoria boreoalpina
- Sphaerophoria brevipilosa
- Sphaerophoria chongjini
- Sphaerophoria cleoae
- Sphaerophoria contigua
- Sphaerophoria cranbrookensis
- Sphaerophoria fatarum
- Sphaerophoria indiana
- Sphaerophoria interrupta
- Sphaerophoria laurae
- Sphaerophoria loewi
- Sphaerophoria longipilosa
- Sphaerophoria macrogaster
- Sphaerophoria menthastri
- Sphaerophoria nigra
- Sphaerophoria novaeangliae
- Sphaerophoria philanthus
- Sphaerophoria potentillae
- Sphaerophoria pyrrhina
- Sphaerophoria qinbaensis
- Sphaerophoria quadrituberculata
- Sphaerophoria retrocurva
- Sphaerophoria rueppellii
- Sphaerophoria scripta
- Sphaerophoria shirchan
- Sphaerophoria sulphuripes
- Sphaerophoria taeniata
- Sphaerophoria virgata
- Sphaerophoria vockerothi
- Sphaerophoria weemsi
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