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Meliscaeva

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Meliscaeva is a genus of hoverflies.

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Instance of
monotypic taxon
Parent taxon
Syrphidae
Image
Hoverfly January 2008-5.jpg
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taxon name
Meliscaeva
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Meliscaeva
topic's main category
Category:Meliscaeva
diel cycle
diurnality
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Meliscaeva is a genus of hoverflies.

They have bare eyes, bare metasternum, bare metapisternum, the anterior anepisternum is usually pilose. Wing margin with a series of minute closely spaced black maculae on posterior margin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meliscaeva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.