Biology:Doros (hoverfly)

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Short description: Genus of flies

Doros
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Doros profuges depicted in Fauna Germanica
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Doros

Meigen, 1803[1]
Type species
Syrphus conopseus
Fabricius, 1775
Synonyms
  • Bacchiopsis Matsumura, 1916[2]

Doros is a genus of hoverflies. They are large slender flies, that mimic solitary wasp in slow flight.[3][4] They have very limited flight period.[5]

Species

References

  1. Meigen, J. W. (1803). "Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten". Mag. Insektenkd 2: 259-281. 
  2. Matsumura, Shōnen (1916). Thousand insects of Japan. Additamenta. 2 (Diptera). Tokyo: Keisei-sha. pp. 185-474 + [4], pls. 16-25. 
  3. Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN 1-899935-03-7. 
  4. Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN 1-870393-54-6. 
  5. Veen, M.P. van (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. pp. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8. 
  6. Loew, Hermann (1863). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena". Centuria quarta. Berl. Ent. Z. 7: 275-326. 
  7. Harris, M. (1780). An exposition of English insects. Decads III, IV. London: Robson Co.. pp. 73-99, 100-138, pls. 21-30, 31-40. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226006#page/5/mode/1up. Retrieved 16 July 2021. 
  8. Barkalov, A.V. "Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". Novosibirsk, Russia: the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on October 20, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm. Retrieved 29 July 2009. 
  9. Smirnov, E. S. (1926). "Eine neue Doros-Art aus Zentral-Asien". Arch. Nat. 91 (A): 65-69. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4037542 entry