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Pitheads & Kin
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Pitheads & Kin

Pipizinae

The Pipizinae is a subfamily of hoverflies. The subfamily Pipizinae was formerly considered a tribe within Eristalinae, but a phylogenetic analysis published in 2015 suggests it should be ranked as a separate subfamily (Mengual, 2015)

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8 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Pitheads

genusPipiza

Pipizella

genusPipizella

Smoothleg Flies

genusHeringia

Neocnemodon

genusNeocnemodon

Trichopsomyia

genusTrichopsomyia

Triglyphus

genusTriglyphus

Claussenia

genusClaussenia

Cryptopipiza

genusCryptopipiza

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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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 868216.