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Mallota is a widely distributed Holarctic genus of hoverfly (a member of the fly family Syrphidae), well known for their bee-like appearance.

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Diptera

Family:Syrphidae

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Mallota

Mallota spp possibly cimbiciformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subtribe:	Helophilina
Genus:	Mallota Meigen, 1822^[1]
Species
>75 species

Species

M. abdominalis Sack, 1927
M. aenigma Bezzi, 1912^[2]
M. albipilis Snow, 1895^[3]
M. albipes Snow, 1895
M. bautias (Walker, 1849)
M. bequaerti Hull, 1956
M. bicolor Sack, 1910
M. cimbiciformis (Fallén, 1817)
M. cingulata Sack, 1927
M. curvigaster (Macquart, 1842)^[4]^[5]
M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819)
M. dusmeti Andreu, 1925
M. extrema (Loew, 1858)
M. fuciformis (Fabricius, 1794)
M. hirsuta Hull, 1941
M. illinoensis _{Robertson, 1901}^[6]
M. inopinata Violovich, 1975^[7]
M. megilliformis (Fallén, 1817)
M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941
M. mississipensis Hull, 1946^[8]
M. munda Violovich, 1955^[9]
M. orientalis Wiedemann, 1824^[10]
M. posticata (Fabricius, 1805)
M. rossica Portschinsky, 1877^[11]
M. rubripes Matsumura, 1916
M. sackeni Williston, 1882
M. shatalkini Mutin, 1999^[12]
M. spinosa _{Hirooka & Maruyama, 2015}^[13]
M. thompsoni Hirooka & Maruyama, 2015^[13]
M. tricolor Loew, 1871
M. vilis Wiedemann, 1830 ("Non-European Two-Winged Insects as a Continuation of Meigen's Work. Second Part.") ^[14]
M. viridiflavescentis Huo & Ren, 2006^[15]

References

[1]
Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
[2]
Bezzi, M. (1912). "Ditteri raccolti da Leonardo Fea durante il suo viaggio nell' Africa occidentale. Parte 1a: Syrphidae". Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova. 45: 400–453.
[3]
Snow, W.A. (1895). "Diptera of Colorado and New Mexico. Syrphidae". The Kansas University Quarterly. 3: 225–247. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
[4]
"Mallota curvigaster information". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
[5]
Macquart, P.J.M. (1842-12-12). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–140.
[6]
Robertson, Charles (1901). "Some New Diptera". The Canadian Entomologist. 33 (10): 285–286. doi:10.4039/Ent33284-10.
[7]
Violovitsh, N. A. (1975). "Some new species of hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the fauna of the USSR". Nov. Mal. Vidy Faun. Sibir. (5): 92–97.
[8]
Hull, F.M. (1946). "New syrphid flies from Mississippi". Entomological News. 56 (10): 268–272.
[9]
Violovitsh, N. A. (1955). "New and little-known hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Kunashir Island". Ent. Obozr. (in Russian). 34 (1): 47–54.
[10]
Wiedemann, C.R.W. (1824). Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Vol. 1. Regio typographeo scholarum. p. 60.
[11]
Portschinsky, J.A. (1877). "[Contribution to history of the fauna of Russia and the Caucasus. BumbleBee flies.]". Trudy russk. Ent. Obshch. (in Russian). 10: 102–198.
[12]
Mutin, V.A.; Barkalov, A.V. (1999). Lehr, P. A. (ed.). Key to the Insects of Russian Far East. Vol. 6. Diptera and Siphonaptera. Part 1. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok. pp. 342–500.
[13]
Hirooka, Takuto; Maruyama, Munetoshi; Thompson, F. C. (2015). "Revision of the flower fly genus Mallota Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Japan". Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology. 21 (2): 241–258.
[14]
Wiedemann, C.R.W. (1830-09-01). Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Zweiter Theil. Hamm: Schulz. pp. xii+684.
[15]
Huo, K.K.; Ren, G.D. (2006). "Taxonomic studies on Milesiinae from the Museum of Hebei University (Diptera, Syrphidae)". Acta Zoologica Sinica.

Stubbs, Alan E. and Steven J. Falk (1983), British Hoverflies, an illustrated identification guide, British Entomological and Natural History Society. ISBN 0-9502891-9-1

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