BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Melanostoma (a genus of hoverflies)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus, 1758) (a hoverfly) | 4 | |
| Species | Melanostoma scalare (Fabricius, 1794) (a hoverfly) | 7 | 11 |
Suggested Literature
Melanostoma may be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
HEXAPODA (hexapods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Melanostoma is associated with:
There may be taxa associated with Melanostoma listed at higher taxonomic level
|
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
CYCLORRHAPHA (a suborder of flies) |
SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) |
Associated with Melanostoma:
| egg | egg is parasitoid host of larva | Diplazon laetatorius - an ichneumon wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) | Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E., 1982 | ||
| egg | egg is parasitoid host of larva | Diplazon tetragonus - an ichneumon wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) | Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E., 1982 | ||
| larva | larva is parasitoid host of larva | Diplazon laetatorius - an ichneumon wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) | Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E., 1982 | ||
| larva | larva is parasitoid host of larva | Diplazon tetragonus - an ichneumon wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) | Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E., 1982 |
Melanostoma may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
ANIMALIA (animals) |
INSECTA (insects) |
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) |
References
| Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E., 1982 | A key to the European genera of Diplazontine ichneumon-flies with notes on the British fauna |
