Directory of Syrphidae Resources

Home > Science > Biology > Flora and Fauna > Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae

Family of flies, the hover flies.

Resources in This Category

• Album: Syrphidae

  http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=49
  Many photographs of hoverflies in this family.

• All About Hoverflies

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay07/cd-hoverflies.html
  A study by C V Duke of these insects, their classification, biology and life cycle, with a gallery of common British species.

• Allograpta obliqua

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/hover_fly.htm
  Provides photographs and information on this hover fly, its distribution, identification, life history, habits, the pests eaten by its larvae and the parasites which attack it.

• Aspen Hoverfly: Hammerschmidtia ferruginea

  http://www.arkive.org/aspen-hoverfly/hammerschmidtia-ferruginea/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• BugwoodWiki: Syrphid Flies

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Syrphidae
  Photographs and information on these insect predators in the family Syrphidae.

• Ceriana sp: Wasp-mimicking Hover Fly

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Wasp-mimicking-Hover-Fly/Ceriana/sp.html
  Description, other information and a photograph.

• Common Hover Fly (Melangyna viridiceps)

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Common-Hover-Fly/Melangyna/viridiceps.html
  Photograph and information on this species.

• Eristalinus punctulatus: Native Drone Fly

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Native-Drone-Fly/Eristalinus/punctulatus.html
  Description, other information and several photographs.

• Family Syrphidae

  http://bugguide.net/node/view/196/bgpage
  Photographs of flies in this family found in North America, provided by BugGuide.

• Golden Hoverfly: Callicera spinolae

  http://www.arkive.org/golden-hoverfly/callicera-spinolae/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Hover Flies

  http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth14.html
  Article by Dave Pehling on hover flies (fly family Syrphidae), adult characteristics and some larval habits.

• Hover Fly (Episyrphus sp)

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Hover-Fly/Episyrphus/sp.html
  Photograph and information on this fly which may be Episyrphus viridaureus.

• Hoverflies

  http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/insects/eristalis.htm
  Photographs and identifying features of Eristalis arbustorum, E. intricarius, E. pertinax and E. tenax.

• Hoverflies of Adur

  http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Hoverflies.html
  Many photographs of hoverflies and much information about them.

• Hoverfly (Simosyrphus grandicornis)

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Hoverfly/Simosyrphus/grandicornis.html
  Photographs and information on this species.

• Ischiodon scutellaris: Common Hover Fly

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Common-Hover-Fly/Ischiodon/scutellaris.html
  Description, other information and a photograph.

• The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry in Hoverflies

  http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/archive/00000096/01/ImperfectMimicry.pdf
  Article by Francis Gilbert describing Batesian mimicry and discussing the extent to which hoverflies succeed in mimicing bees, wasps and bumblebees.

• The Evolutionary Ecology of Hoverflies

  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/evolecol.htm
  Francis Gilbert's research on the Syrphidae.

 

Home > Science > Biology > Flora and Fauna > Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us