Pelecinobaccha costata

Pelecinobaccha costata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Pelecinobaccha
Species:
P. costata
Binomial name
Pelecinobaccha costata
(Say, 1829)
Synonyms
  • Ocyptamus costatus (Say, 1829)
  • Baccha costalis Wiedemann, 1830
  • Baccha costata Say, 1829
  • Baccha tarchetia Walker, 1849

Pelecinobaccha costata, the cobalt hover fly, is a species of fly in the family Syrphidae. It is distributed from southern Ontario and the east of the United States Of America.

The larvae are predators of scale insects.[1] [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Pelecinobaccha costata". GBIF. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  2. ↑ Miranda, Gil Felipe Gonçalves (2011). An Overview of The Genus Ocyptamus Macquart, 1834, With a Revision Of The Ocyptamus Tristis Species Group (PDF) (Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved 2023-01-03.


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