Sterphus nigrita

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Sterphus nigrita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Tribe: Milesiini
Subtribe: Xylotina
Genus: Sterphus
Species:
S. nigrita
Binomial name
Sterphus nigrita
(Fabricius, 1781) [1]
Synonyms

Sterphus nigrita is a species of Hoverfly in the family Syrphidae. [8]

Distribution

Jamaica.

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References

  1. 1 2 Fabricius, J.C. (1781). Species insectorum. Vol. 2. Hamburgi et Kilonii [= Hamburg and Kiel]: C. E. Bohnii. p. 494.
  2. ↑ Gmelin, J.F. (1790). Caroli a Linne, Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata [= Ed. 13.] Vol. 1: Regnum Animale. Lipsiae [= Leipzig]: G.E. Beer. pp. Pt 5, Pp. 2225–3020. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ↑ Shannon, Raymond Corbett (1926). "Review of the American xylotine syrphid-flies". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 69 ((9)[2635]): 1–52. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Hull, F.M. (1944). "Studies on syrphid flies in the Museum of Comparative Zoology" (PDF). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 51: 22–45. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Hull, Frank Montgomery (1951). "Some New World Xylotinae (Diptera: Syrphidae)". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 27: 183–186.
  6. ↑ Turton, W. (1801). A general system of nature. Vol. III. David Williams. p. 784.
  7. ↑ Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 15: 243–292. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  8. ↑ Thompson, F. Christian; Vockeroth, J. Richard; Sedman, Yale S; Papavero, N (1976). "Family Syrphidae" (PDF). A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. 9 (8). Sao Paulo: Museum of Zoology of the University of Sao Paulo: 1–195. Retrieved 20 July 2021.


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