Callicera
Genus of flies
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Callicera is a Holarctic genus of hoverflies.[1]
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| Illustration in Johann Wilhelm Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Figure 10 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Eristalinae |
| Tribe: | Callicerini |
| Genus: | Callicera Panzer, 1809 |
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They are beautiful metallic flies, with strikingly long antennae are medium-sized to rather large (wing length 9·75–15 mm.) bumblebee mimics. All the species are considered rare. Callicera larvae live in the moist rot-holes of overmature trees as saprophages.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Callicera have been used as bioindicators.
Species
The following species are assigned to this genus:[9]
- Callicera aenea (Fabricius, 1777)
- Callicera aurata (Rossi, 1790)
- Callicera christiani Ghorpadé, 1982
- Callicera doleschalli Verrall, 1913
- Callicera duncani Curran, 1935
- Callicera erratica (Walker, 1849)
- Callicera exigua Smit, 2014
- Callicera fagesii Guérin-Méneville, 1844
- Callicera loewi Verrall, 1913
- Callicera macquartii Rondani, 1843
- Callicera montensis Snow, 1892
- Callicera nitens Coe, 1964
- Callicera poultoni Verrall, 1913
- Callicera robusta Coe, 1964
- Callicera rufa Schummel, 1841
- Callicera sackeni Verrall, 1913
- Callicera scintilla
- Callicera spinolae Rondani, 1843
- Callicera sumatrensis Meijere, 1919
