Epistrophe is a genus of flies in the family Syrphidae, the hoverflies or flower flies.[1]
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| Epistrophe eligans male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Tribe: | Syrphini |
| Genus: | Epistrophe Walker, 1852 |
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These are medium-sized flies that live in forest habitat, where they occur on forest edges and in openings. The larvae are usually flat and green, blending in with foliage. The larvae are often predators of aphids, and adult females may lay their eggs in aphid colonies to provide the larvae with a food source. After an eight-day larval stage the juvenile fly enters diapause and then pupates the following spring.[2]
Species
editThere are nearly 75 species in the genus.[2] Species include:
- Epistrophe annulitarsis (Stackelberg, 1918)
- Epistrophe cryptica Doczkal & Schmid, 1994
- Epistrophe diaphana (Zetterstedt, 1843)
- Epistrophe eligans (Harris, 1780)[3]
- Epistrophe flava Doczkal & Schmid, 1994
- Epistrophe grossulariae (Meigen, 1822)
- Epistrophe leiophthalma (Schiner & Egger, 1853)
- Epistrophe melanostoma (Zetterstedt, 1843)
- Epistrophe metcalfi (Fluke, 1933)
- Epistrophe nitidicollis (Meigen, 1822)
- Epistrophe obscuripes (Strobl, 1910)
- Epistrophe ochrostoma (Zetterstedt, 1849)
- Epistrophe terminalis (Curran, 1925)
- Epistrophe xanthostoma (Williston, 1887)
References
edit- ^ Stubbs, A. E. and S. J. Falk. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ^ a b Kazerani, F., et al. (2014). Genus Epistrophe Walker, 1852 (Insects: Diptera: Syrphidae) in Northern Iran, with a new species record. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Check List 10(1) 160-63.
- ^ Harris, M. (1780). An exposition of English insects. Vol. Decads III, IV. London: Robson Co. pp. 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21–30, 31–40. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
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