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Tropidiina
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Tropidiina

Tropidiina is a subtribe of hoverflies within the tribe Milesiini. Tropidiina includes 11 genera.

Tropidiina, although traditionally classified within the tribe Milesiini, has also been found to be a sister group to the tribe Eristalini in recent phylogenetic studies, indicating that Milesiini, as currently defined, does not include all descendants of the last common ancestor, making Milesiini polyphyletic.

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8 branches of this group, most-observed first

Syritta

genusSyritta

Tropidia

genusTropidia

Brachypalpoides

genusBrachypalpoides

Orthoprosopa

genusOrthoprosopa

Rhinotropidia

genusRhinotropidia

Senogaster

genusSenogaster

Meropidia

genusMeropidia

Calcaretropidia

genusCalcaretropidia

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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 520027.