Volucella
{{Short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Automatic Taxobox
| image = Volucella_pellucens2.jpg
| image_caption = Volucella pellucens
| taxon = Volucella
| authority = Geoffroy, 1762{{cite book |last1=Geoffroy |first1=E.L. |title=Histoire abregee des insectes ... de Paris. , . Vol. 2, . |date=1762 |publisher=Durand |location=Paris |pages=690 pp., pls 11-22 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/132531#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=5 July 2021}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|last=Evenhuis|first=Neal L.|year=2020|title=The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4859|issue=3|pages=383–396|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4|pmid=33056189}}
| synonyms = Macrostoma Swinderen, 1822
}}
Volucella is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward.{{cite book|author=Coe, R.L.|year=1953 |title=Diptera: Syrphidae, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 10 Pt 1|pages=98pp |publisher=Royal Entomological Society of London}} They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators.{{cite book|author1=Stubbs, Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J. |name-list-style=amp |year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society}}
Selected species
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- Volucella abdita Violovich, 1978 {{Cite journal |last=Violovitsh |first=N. A. |date=1978 |title=Some new Palaearctic species of hover flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) |journal=Faun. Sibir. |volume=12 |pages=172-181}}
- Volucella anastasia Hull, 1946
- Volucella arctica Johnson, 1916 {{cite book |last=Skevington |first=Jeffrey H |author-link= |date=2019 |title= Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. |url= |location= |publisher= |page= |isbn= 9780691189406 }}
- Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella dracaena Curran
- Volucella elegans Loew, 1862
- Volucella eugenia Williston, 1887
- Volucella evecta Walker, 1852
- Volucella facialis Williston, 1882
- Volucella flavizona Cheng, 2012{{Cite journal |last=Huang |first=C. M. |last2=Cheng |first2=X. Y. |date=2012 |title=Volucellini |url=https://www.nhbs.com/fauna-sinica-insecta-volume-50-diptera-syrphidae-chinese-book?srsltid=AfmBOoqnNWgGL0zrPZO6fGk4MCz-zoKOn-af556cN8zfHgD4stuB53uN |journal=Fauna Sinica: Insecta |language=zh |volume=50 |via=nhbs}}
- Volucella galbicorpus Cheng, 2012
- Volucella inanis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella inflata (Fabricius, 1794)
- Volucella jeddona Bigot, 1875
- Volucella latifasciata Cheng, 2012
- Volucella linearis Walker, 1849{{cite web|first = Katsuyoshi|last = Ichige|title = Japanese Hoverfly photograph collection|url = http://homepage2.nifty.com/syrphidae/flame2_e.htm|archive-url = https://archive.today/20121206041952/http://homepage2.nifty.com/syrphidae/flame2_e.htm|url-status = dead|archive-date = 6 December 2012|location = Mito-city, Japan|access-date = 5 August 2009}}
- Volucella liquida Erichson in Wagner, 1841
- Volucella lutzi Curran, 1930
- Volucella matsumurai Han & Choi, 2001
- Volucella nigricans Coquillett, 1898
- Volucella nigropicta Portschinsky, 1884
- Volucella pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volucella plumatoides Hervé-Bazin, 1923
- Volucella suzukii Matsumura, 1916
- Volucella tau Bigot, 1883
- Volucella unipunctata Curran, 1926
- Volucella zonaria (Poda, 1761)
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Gallery
File:Humleblomfluga02054.jpg|Volucella bombylans var. bombylans female
File:Volucella bombylans.jpg|Volucella bombylans var. plumata female
File:Volucella inanis 20020718.jpg|Volucella inanis female
File:Volucella pellucens, 2006-07-22.JPG|Volucella pellucens female
File:Volucella fg05.jpg|Volucella inflata female
File:Volucella September 2007-2.jpg|Volucella zonaria female
References
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Category:Taxa named by Étienne Louis Geoffroy
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