Toxomerus
| Toxomerus | |
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| Toxomerus marginatus female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Toxomerini |
| Genus: | Toxomerus Macquart, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Toxomerus notatus Macquart, 1855 | |
Toxomerus is a very large genus of hoverfies. They are found in many parts of North and South America.[1][2] Most larvae are believed to feed on pollen. Adults feed on a wide range of flowers.[3]
Species
- Toxomerus aeolus (Hull,1942)[1]
- Toxomerus apegiensis (Harbach, 1974)[1]
- Toxomerus aquilinus (Sack, 1941)[4]
- Toxomerus arcifer (Loew, 1866)
- Toxomerus boscii Macquart, 1842
- Toxomerus confusus Schiner, 1868)[4]
- Toxomerus corbis (Walker, 1852)
- Toxomerus difficilis (Curran, 1930)[3]
- Toxomerus dispar (Fabricius, 1794)
- Toxomerus floralis (Fabricius, 1798)
- Toxomerus geminatus (Say, 1923)
- Toxomerus jussiaeae Vige, 1939
- Toxomerus marginatus (Say, 1823)
- Toxomerus occidentalis Curran, 1922
- Toxomerus papaveroi Borges & Couri, 2009[3]
- Toxomerus parvulus (Loew, 1866)
- Toxomerus pictus (Macquart, 1842)[1]
- Toxomerus politus (Say, 1823)
- Toxomerus procrasinatus Metz, 2001[4]
- Toxomerus sedmani Harbach, 1984[3]
- Toxomerus steatogaster (Hull, 1941)[3]
- Toxomerus teligera (Fluke, 1953)
- Toxomerus tibicen (Wiedemann, 1830)[4]
- Toxomerus verticalis (Curran, 1927)
- Toxomerus virgulatus (Macquart, 1850)[1]
- Toxomerus watsoni (Curran, 1930)[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Mengual, Ximo; Gunilla Stahls; Santos Rojo (2008). "First phylogeny of predatory flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification" (PDF). Cladistics (Wiley-Blackwell) 24: 543–562. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00200.x. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ↑ Reemer, M. (2010). "A second survey of Surinam Syrphidae (Diptera):introduction and Syrphinae". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 153 (2): 163–196. doi:10.1163/22119434-900000295.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Reemer, Menno; Rotheray, Graham E. (16 April 2009). "Pollen feeding larvae in the presumed predatory syrphine genus Toxomerus Macquart (Diptera, Syrphidae)". Journal of Natural History (PDF) (UK: Taylor and Francis) 43 (15): 939–949. doi:10.1080/00222930802610576. ISSN 1464-5262.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Marinoni, Luciane; Thompson, F. Christian (2003). "Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species". Studia dipterologica 10 (2): 565–578. ISSN 0945-3954.