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Bacchini
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Bacchini

The Bacchini are a tribe of hoverflies. The tribe Bacchini contains a worldwide distribution of over 430 species. They are mostly small elongate flies with black heads and scutellum. Larvae are predatory, mainly upon aphids, like others in the subfamily Syrphinae, itself containing around 1,600 species. They in turn belong to the family Syrphidae with over 6,200 species worldwide.

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7 branches of this tribe, most-observed first

Sedgesitters

genusPlatycheirus

Baccha

genusBaccha

Pyrophaena

genusPyrophaena

Eocheilosia

genusEocheilosia

Spazigaster

genusSpazigaster

Syrphocheilosia

genusSyrphocheilosia

Rohdendorfia

genusRohdendorfia

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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 499495.