Meliscaeva

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Meliscaeva
File:Hoverfly January 2008-5.jpg
Meliscaeva auricollis female
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Genus: Meliscaeva
Frey, 1946

Meliscaeva is a genus of hoverflies.[1]

They have bare eyes, bare metasternum, bare metapisternum, the anterior anepisternum is usually pilose. Wing margin with a series of minute closely spaced black maculae on posterior margin.

Mostly Oriental, however, Meliscaeva cinctella is widely distributed in North America and Europe.

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