Bacchini
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,[1] 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.[2]
| Bacchini | |
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| Baccha elongata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Superfamily: | Syrphoidea |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Bacchini |
| Genera | |
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List of genera
- Baccha Fabricius, 1805[3][4]
- Eocheilosia Hull, 1949[4]
- Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828[4][5]
- Pyrophaena Schiner, 1860[4]
- Rohdendorfia Smirnov, 1924[4]
- Spazigaster Rondani, 1843[4]
- Syrphocheilosia Stackelberg, 1864[4]
Baccha elongata
Rohdendorfia sp.
Spazigaster sp.
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