BioImages (UK)
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)
Syrphoidea
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

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

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Family PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies) 2 3     3
Family SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) 91 500 524 19 54

Suggested Literature

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 16 general literature references to SYRPHOIDEA (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies & big-headed flies)

SYRPHOIDEA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 360 feeding and other relationships of SYRPHOIDEA (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies & big-headed flies)

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