Somula

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Somula
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Somula decora
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Milesiini
Subtribe: Blerina
Genus: Somula
Macquart, 1847 [1]
Type species
Somula decora
Macquart, 1847 [1]

Somula is a genus of syrphid flies in the family Syrphidae. There are at least two described species in Somula. [2]

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Somula decora Syrphid - Somula decora, Sugarloaf Mountain, Dickerson, Maryland.jpg
Somula decora

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Macquart, Pierre-Justin-Marie (1847). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 2.e supplement. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–104, 6 pls.
  2. ↑ Skevington, J.H.; Locke, M.M.; Young, A.D.; Moran, K.; Crins, W.J.; Marshall, S.A (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton Field Guides (First ed.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 512. ISBN   9780691189406.
  3. ↑ Hull, Frank Montgomery (1922). "New Syrphidae (Diptera) from Mississippi". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 15: 370–373. Retrieved 25 August 2021.

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