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Bacchini

The Bacchini are a tribe of hoverflies. The tribe Bacchini contains a worldwide distribution of over 430 species. They are mostly small elongate flies with black heads and scutellum. Larvae are predatory, mainly upon aphids, like others in the subfamily Syrphinae, itself containing around 1,600 species. They in turn belong to the family Syrphidae with over 6,200 species worldwide.

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Bacchini
Baccha elongata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Syrphoidea
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Tribe: Bacchini
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The Bacchini are a tribe of hoverflies. The tribe Bacchini contains a worldwide distribution of over 430 species. They are mostly small elongate flies with black heads and scutellum. Larvae are predatory, mainly upon aphids,1 like others in the subfamily Syrphinae, itself containing around 1,600 species. They in turn belong to the family Syrphidae with over 6,200 species worldwide.2

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  1. Rotheray, Graham (1998). "Phylogeny of Palaearctic Syrphidae (Diptera): evidence from larval stages" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 127: 1–112. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb01305.x.
  2. Vockeroth, J. R. (1992). The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 18. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada (PDF). Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Government Pub Centre. pp. 1–456.
  3. Fabricius, Johann Christian (1805). Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species. Bransvigae: Apud Carolum Reichard. pp. i–xiv, 1–373. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  4. Mengual, Ximo (2020-02-27). "Phylogenetic relationships of the bacchine flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on molecular characters, with a description of a new species of Melanostoma (Schiner, 1860)". Contributions to Zoology. 89 (2): 210–244. doi:10.1163/18759866-20191410. ISSN 1383-4517.
  5. Young, Andrew D.; Marshall, Stephen A.; Skevington, Jeffrey H. (17 February 2016). "Revision of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the Nearctic north of Mexico". Zootaxa. 4082 (1): 34. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4082.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27394216. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 3.0 license.