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Syrphidae of Southern Illinois: Diversity, floral associations, and preliminary assessment of their efficacy as pollinators [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020 Syrphid flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are a cosmopolitan group of flower-visiting insects, though their diversity and importance as pollinators is understudied and often unappreciated.
Jacob Chisausky +6 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Flies (Diptera) represent one of the largest and most important groups of pollinators on the planet; however, little is known about the interactions between flies and flowers compared to well-known pollinators, such as bees.
Evelyn Blakeman +6 more
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Flower Mimics Roll Out Multicolored Carpets to Lure and Kill the House Fly
Insects, 2021 Flowers and their spatial clustering are important parameters that mediate the foraging behavior and visitation rate of pollinating insects. Visual stimuli are crucial for triggering behavioral changes in the house fly, Musca domestica, which regularly ...
Hamady Dieng +8 more
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A pictorial key for identification of the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Madeira Archipelago [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 Syrphid flies are important ecological indicators and provide crucial ecosystem services, being important pollinators and biological control agents of insect pests.
Carla Rego +5 more
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Nectar Uptake of a Long-Proboscid Prosoeca Fly (Nemestrinidae)—Proboscis Morphology and Flower Shape
Insects, 2021 Several Prosoeca (Nemestinidae) species use a greatly elongated proboscis to drink nectar from long-tubed flowers. We studied morphological adaptations for nectar uptake of Prosoecamarinusi that were endemic to the Northern Cape of South Africa.
Harald W. Krenn +4 more
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A multigene phylogeny of the eristaline flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae), with emphasis on the subtribe Criorhinina [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021 AbstractWe present the first multigene phylogeny focused on Eristalinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) utilizing a dataset containing 120 flower fly species from across all four subfamilies and representing 13 out of 16 tribes. Eight genes were used in the construction of the phylogeny: mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and the nuclear genes 28S ...
Kevin M Moran +13 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023 Native insect flower visitors can be important contributors to crop pollination, yet little is known of their pollination abilities and the resources (habitat) they need to be supported within crop agroecosystems.
Abby E. Davis +10 more
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A new species of the genus Milesia Latreille (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Crete
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 Milesia cretica Bot & van Steenis sp. nov. is described from the Island of Crete, Greece. An identification key to all the European species of Milesia Latreille, 1804 is provided, together with DNA barcodes to distinguish the new species.
Sander Bot +3 more
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Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in Pampean agroecosystems: a study case [PDF]
Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 2021 Agroecosystems produce profound alterations on the structure and functioning of the original environment, mainly due to the reduction of biodiversity. Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are potentially useful organisms for the diverse ecosystem services they provide. We studied syrphids collected in a Pampean agroecosystem to assess richness, abundance,
Juan Pablo Torretta +2 more
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Cretaceous Horse flies and their phylogenetic significance (Diptera: Tabanidae) [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2022 Popularly known as horse flies or deer flies, Tabanidae, has 4.400 described species distributed worldwide. Most of the females are hematophagous, but several species are also flower visitors.
Daniel Dias Dornelas do Carmo +3 more
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