| Trichopsomyia | |
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| Trichopsomyia flavitarsisIllustration in British Entomology | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Superfamily: | Syrphoidea |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Pipizinae |
| Tribe: | Pipizini |
| Genus: | Trichopsomyia Williston, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Trichopsomyia polita Williston, 1888 | |
Trichopsomyia is a genus of Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae (flower flies), in the order Diptera.
Biology
Hover flies like the Trichopsomyia are small flies with large heads and eyes, and small antennae. Their bodies are medium to slender, with a waist that is not significantly narrow, unless it is a wasp mimicking species. They have one pair of clear wings, and the banded forms have yellow and black bands. Hoverflies resemble wasps or bees because of their black and yellow-striped abdomens. However, they are actually members of a fly family that have evolved to mimic wasps and bees for protection.
Hoverfly larvae are flattened, legless and maggot-like. Most are green or brown in colour. They are carnivorous and eat aphids.
Species
- Trichopsomyia antillensis (Thompson, 1981)
- Trichopsomyia apisaon Walker, 1849
- Trichopsomyia australis (Johnson, 1907)
- Trichopsomyia currani (Fluke, 1937)
- Trichopsomyia banksi Curran, 1921)
- Trichopsomyia biglumis (Matsumura, 1916)
- Trichopsomyia boliviensis (Shannon, 1927)
- Trichopsomyia flavitarsis (Meigen, 1822)
- Trichopsomyia granditibialis (Fluke, 1937)
- Trichopsomyia lasiotibialis (Fluke, 1937)
- Trichopsomyia joratensis Goeldlin, 1997
- Trichopsomyia litoralis Vockeroth, 1988
- Trichopsomyia longicornis (Williston, 1888)
- Trichopsomyia lucida (Meigen, 1822)
- Trichopsomyia nigritarsis (Curran, 1924)
- Trichopsomyia occidentalis (Townsend, 1897)
- Trichopsomyia ochrozona (Stackelberg, 1952)
- Trichopsomyia pilosa (van Steenis & Wyatt, 2020)
- Trichopsomyia polita Williston, 1888
- Trichopsomyia pubescens (Loew, 1863)
- Trichopsomyia puella (Williston, 1888)
- Trichopsomyia recedens (Walker, 1852)
- Trichopsomyia rufithoracica (Curran, 1921)
- Trichopsomyia similis (Curran, 1924)
- Trichopsomyia tuberculata (Williston, 1888)
- Trichopsomyia tshapigou (Kuznetzov, 1990)
- Trichopsomyia urania (Hull, 1949)
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References
- ^ Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 15: 243–292. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
- Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 253, xvpp.
- "Hover flies".
- ^ Fluke, C.L. Jr (1937). "New South American Syrphidae" (PDF). Am. Mus. Novit. 941: 1–14.
- ^ Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. Retrieved 14 April 2019.