Callicera

Callicera
Illustration in Johann Wilhelm Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Figure 10
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Tribe:	Callicerini
Genus:	Callicera Panzer, 1809
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

1. Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
2. Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the Database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
7. 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
8. Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11–230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
9. 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.

External images

Images representing Callicera