Volucella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Aschiza
Superfamilia: Syrphoidea

Familia: Syrphidae
Genus: Volucella
Species: V. bombylans – V. dracaena – V. elegans – V. inanis – V. inflata – V. pellucens – V. tricincta – V. zonaria
Name

Volucella Geoffroy, 1762

Primary references

Geoffroy 1762: Hist. Insect. Paris, 2, 540.

Volucella is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward.[3] They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators.[4]
Selected species

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Volucella anastasia Hull, 1946
Volucella bombylans (Linnaeus, 1758)
Volucella dracaena Curran
Volucella elegans Loew, 1862
Volucella eugenia Williston, 1887
Volucella inanis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Volucella inflata (Fabricius, 1794)
Volucella jeddona Bigot, 1875
Volucella linearis Walker, 1849[5]
Volucella liquida Erichson in Wagner, 1841
Volucella lutzi Curran, 1930
Volucella matsumurai Han & Choi, 2001[5]
Volucella nigricans Coquillett, 1898
Volucella nigropicta Portschinsky, 1884
Volucella pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Volucella plumatoides Hervé-Bazin, 1923
Volucella suzukii Matsumura, 1916 [5]
Volucella tau Bigot, 1883
Volucella unipunctata Curran, 1926
Volucella zonaria (Poda, 1761)

References

Geoffroy, E.L. (1762). Histoire abregee des insectes ... de Paris. , . Vol. 2, . Paris: Durand. pp. 690 pp., pls 11-22. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
Evenhuis, Neal L. (2020). "The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano". Zootaxa. 4859 (3): 383–396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4. PMID 33056189.
Coe, R.L. (1953). Diptera: Syrphidae, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 10 Pt 1. Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 98pp.
Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
Ichige, Katsuyoshi. "Japanese Hoverfly photograph collection". Mito-city, Japan. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2009.