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Typical Hover Flies

Syrphinae

The Syrphinae constitute one of the three subfamilies of the fly family Syrphidae. Most larvae of this subfamily feed on aphids...

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3 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Syrphini

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Bacchini

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Melanostomini

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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 186841.