Doros (hoverfly)

Doros
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Tribe: Syrphini
Genus: Doros
Meigen, 1803[1]
Type species
Syrphus conopseus
Fabricius, 1775
Synonyms

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

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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. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
  6. ↑ Loew, Hermann (1863). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena". Centuria quarta. Berl. Ent. Z. 7: 275–326.
  7. ↑ 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. Retrieved 29 July 2009.
  8. ↑ Smirnov, E. S. (1926). "Eine neue Doros-Art aus Zentral-Asien". Arch. Nat. 91 (A): 65–69.
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