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)

SYRPHINAE
(a subfamily of hoverflies)

Syrphinae
is also a member of:

Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

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SYRPHINAE (a subfamily of hoverflies)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon

Tribe	Bacchini (a tribe of hoverflies)	7
Genus	Melanostoma (a genus of hoverflies)	1	11	21
Genus	Platycheirus (a genus of hoverflies)	4		34		1
Species	Pyrophaena granditarsa (Forster, 1771) (a hoverfly)			4
Species	Pyrophaena rosarum (Fabricius, 1787) (a hoverfly)		2	7
Tribe	Paragini (a tribe of hoverflies)	1
Genus	Paragus (a genus of hoverflies)	1		2		1
Tribe	Syrphini (a tribe of hoverflies)	22
Genus	Chrysotoxum (a genus of hoverflies)	3	5	18		1
Genus	Dasysyrphus (a genus of hoverflies)	2	18	16
Genus	Epistrophe (a genus of hoverflies)	2	2	10		1
Species	Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer, 1776) (Marmalade Hoverfly)		23	4		1
Species	Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius, 1794) (a hoverfly)		10	11
Species	Eupeodes luniger (Meigen, 1822) (a hoverfly)		12
Genus	Leucozona (a genus of hoverflies)	2	21	7		2
Genus	Melangyna (a genus of hoverflies)	2	10
Genus	Parasyrphus (a genus of hoverflies)	1		6
Genus	Scaeva (a genus of hoverflies)	1	35	6
Genus	Sphaerophoria (a genus of hoverflies)	2	12	39	7
Genus	Syrphus (a genus of hoverflies)	2	19	9
Genus	Xanthogramma (a genus of hoverflies)	2	2	14		3

Suggested Literature

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 general literature references to SYRPHINAE (a subfamily of hoverflies)

SYRPHINAE 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 122 feeding and other relationships of SYRPHINAE (a subfamily of hoverflies)

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