Bacchini
{{Short description|Tribe of flies}}
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The Bacchini are a tribe of hoverflies. The tribe Bacchini contains a worldwide distribution of over 430 species. They are mostly small elongate flies with black heads and scutellum. Larvae are predatory, mainly upon aphids,{{cite journal |last=Rotheray |first= Graham |year= 1998 |title= Phylogeny of Palaearctic Syrphidae (Diptera): evidence from larval stages |journal= Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume= 127 |pages= 1–112 |doi= 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb01305.x |url=http://ecology.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/pdf%20files/1999%20Rotheray%20&%20Gilbert_Syrphidae%20phylogeny.pdf }} like others in the subfamily Syrphinae, itself containing around 1,600 species. They in turn belong to the family Syrphidae with over 6,200 species worldwide.{{cite book | last1 = Vockeroth | first1 = J. R. | year = 1992 | title = The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 18. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada | pages = 1–456 | publisher = Canadian Government Pub Centre | location = Ottawa, Ontario | url =http://esc-sec.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/AAFC_insects_and_arachnids_part_18.pdf
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List of genera
- Baccha Fabricius, 1805{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=Johann Christian |title=Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species |date=1805 |publisher=Apud Carolum Reichard |location=Bransvigae |pages=i-xiv, 1–373| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53432#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=5 June 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Mengual |first1=Ximo |title=Phylogenetic relationships of the bacchine flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on molecular characters, with a description of a new species of Melanostoma (Schiner, 1860) |journal=Contributions to Zoology |date=2020-02-27 |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=210–244 |doi=10.1163/18759866-20191410 |doi-access=free |issn=1383-4517}}
- Eocheilosia Hull, 1949
- Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828{{cite journal |last1=Young |first1=Andrew D. |last2=Marshall |first2=Stephen A. |last3=Skevington |first3=Jeffrey H. |title=Revision of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the Nearctic north of Mexico |journal=Zootaxa |date=17 February 2016 |volume=4082 |issue=1 |page=34 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4082.1.1 |pmid=27394216 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27394216/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |issn=1175-5334}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by3|from this source=yes}}
- Pyrophaena Schiner, 1860
- Rohdendorfia Smirnov, 1924
- Spazigaster Rondani, 1843
- Syrphocheilosia Stackelberg, 1864
Baccha elongata (Syrphidae) - (imago), Elst (Gld), the Netherlands.jpg|Baccha elongata
The hoverfly Platycheirus scutatus, Dawyck Botanic Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 4120733.jpg|Platycheirus scutatus
Rohdendorfia sp.jpg|Rohdendorfia sp.
Spazigaster.jpg|Spazigaster sp.
References
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