Callicera
| Callicera | |
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| Illustration in Johann Wilhelm Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Figure 10 | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Diptera | 
| Family: | Syrphidae | 
| Tribe: | Callicerini | 
| Genus: | Panzer, 1809  | 
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| Range map 2023 | |
Callicera is a Holarctic genus of hoverflies[1]
They are beautiful metallic flies, with strikingly long antennae are medium-sized to rather large (wing length 9·75–15 mm.) bumblebee mimics. All the species are considered rare. Callicera larvae live in the moist rot-holes of overmature trees as saprophages.[2][3][4][5][6][7] [8] Callicera have been used as bioindicators.
Species
- Callicera aenea (Fabricius, 1781)[9]
 - Callicera aurata (Rossi, 1790)
 - Callicera christiani (Ghorpade, 1982)
 - Callicera doleschalli (Verrall, 1913)
 - Callicera duncani Curran, 1935
 - Callicera erratica (Walker, 1849)
 - Callicera exigua Smit, 2014
 - Callicera fagesii Guérin-Menéville, 1844
 - Callicera macquarti Rondani, 1844
 - Callicera montensis Snow, 1892
 - Callicera nitens (Coe, 1964)
 - Callicera poultoni (Verrall, 1913)
 - Callicera robusta (Coe, 1964)
 - Callicera rohdendorfi Zimina, 1982
 - Callicera rufa Schummel, 1842
 - Callicera sackeni (Verrall, 1913)
 - Callicera scintilla Smit, 2014
 - Callicera spinolae Rondani, 1844
 - Callicera sumatrensis (Meijere, 1919)
 
References
- ^ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
 - ^ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the Database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
 - ^ Van der Goot, V.S. (1981) De zweefvliegen van Noordwest – Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux. KNNV, Uitgave no.32: 275pp. Amsterdam.
 - ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd (revised) ed.). British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 271, xvpp. ISBN 0-9502891-3-2.
 - ^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988a) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Part I. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6.
 - ^ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
 - ^ Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1–98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf Archived 4 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine
 - ^ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11–230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
 - ^ Barkalov, A.V. "Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". Novosibirsk, Russia: the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2009.
 
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