Bacchini

Bacchini
	Baccha elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Superfamily:	Syrphoidea
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Syrphinae
Tribe:	Bacchini
Genera
	See text

Last updated July 18, 2025

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]

List of genera

Baccha Fabricius, 1805^[3]^[4]
Eocheilosia Hull, 1949^[4]
Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828^[4]^[5]
Pyrophaena Schiner, 1860^[4]
Rohdendorfia Smirnov, 1924^[4]
Spazigaster Rondani, 1843^[4]
Syrphocheilosia Stackelberg, 1864^[4]

Baccha elongata
Platycheirus scutatus
Rohdendorfia sp.
Spazigaster sp.

References

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Fabricius, Johann Christian (1805). Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species. Bransvigae: Apud Carolum Reichard. pp. i–xiv, 1–373. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
↑ 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 textfrom this source, which is available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

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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.

[Vockeroth92-2] 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.

[Fabricius1805-3] Fabricius, Johann Christian (1805). Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species. Bransvigae: Apud Carolum Reichard. pp. i–xiv, 1–373. Retrieved 5 June 2020.

[Mengual2020-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.

[Young_et_al.-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 textfrom this source, which is available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

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