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Epistrophe
Epistrophe is a genus of flies in the family Syrphidae, the hoverflies or flower flies.
These are medium-sized flies that live in forest habitat, where they occur on forest edges and in openings. The larvae are usually flat and green, blending in with foliage. The larvae are often predators of aphids, and adult females may lay their eggs in aphid colonies to provide the larvae with a food source. After an eight-day larval stage the juvenile fly enters diapause and then pupates the following spring.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Spring Epistrophe
speciesEpistrophe eligans
Black-horned Smoothtail
speciesEpistrophe grossulariae
Straight-banded Smoothtail
speciesEpistrophe nitidicollis
Epistrophe melanostoma
speciesEpistrophe melanostoma
Epistrophe diaphana
speciesEpistrophe diaphana
Emarginate Smoothtail
speciesEpistrophe xanthostoma
Epistrophe flava
speciesEpistrophe flava
Epistrophe leiophthalma
speciesEpistrophe leiophthalma
Epistrophe cryptica
speciesEpistrophe cryptica
Broad-faced Smoothtail
speciesEpistrophe ochrostoma
Epistrophe obscuripes
speciesEpistrophe obscuripes
Epistrophe annulitarsis
speciesEpistrophe annulitarsis
Epistrophe morna
speciesEpistrophe morna
Epistrophe trifasciata
speciesEpistrophe trifasciata
Hairy-winged Smoothtail
speciesEpistrophe terminalis
Black-margined Smoothtail
speciesEpistrophe metcalfi
Epistrophe kastenholzi
speciesEpistrophe kastenholzi
Epistrophe bifasciata
speciesEpistrophe bifasciata
Epistrophe emarginata
speciesEpistrophe emarginata
Epistrophe olgae
speciesEpistrophe olgae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 133099.