Scaeva
| Scaeva | |
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| Scaeva pyrastri male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Syrphini |
| Genus: | Scaeva Fabricius, 1805 |
| Synonyms | |
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Biology
- Scaeva is a genus of hoverflies.[1]
- Scaeva albomaculata (Macquart, 1842)
- Scaeva dignota (Róndani, 1857)[2]
- Scaeva mecogramma (Bigot, 1860)
- Scaeva pyrastri (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Scaeva selenitica (Meigen, 1822)
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People
- Marcus Cassius Scaeva, a centurion in Caesar's army at the Battle of Dyrrhachium, and later one of Caesar's partisans.
References
- ↑ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ↑ Wright, Adam S. (2013). "Scaeva dignota (Rondani, (Diptera: Syrphidae), New to Britain". Dipterists Digest. Second series. 20 (2): 151–152.
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