BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)

PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)

ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

HEXAPODA
(hexapods)

INSECTA
(insects)

PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)

Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)

Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

MUSCOMORPHA
(hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)

Aschiza
(hover, drone, big-headed, scuttle, flat-footed, big-footed & pointed-wing flies)

SYRPHOIDEA
(hover flies, drone flies, flower flies & big-headed flies)

SYRPHIDAE
(hover flies, drone flies, flower flies)

MILESIINAE
(a subfamily of hoverflies)

Xylotini
(a tribe of hoverflies)

Brachypalpoides lentus
(a hoverfly)

Brachypalpoides lentus
is also a member of:

Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Brachypalpoides lentus (Meigen, 1822) (a hoverfly)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Morris, R.K.A. & Ball, S.G., 2002 (Colour photograph)

An introduction to British hoverflies and the Hoverfly Recording Scheme

Brachypalpoides lentus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

INSECTA
(insects)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

SYRPHIDAE
(hover flies, drone flies, flower flies)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 feeding and other relationships of Brachypalpoides lentus (a hoverfly)

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