Global InformationEupeodes perplexus information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Eupeodes |
| Subgenus: | Metasyrphus |
| Species: | E. perplexus
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| Eupeodes perplexus (Osburn) 1910
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Eupeodes perplexus , the bare-winged aphideater, is a species of hoverfly native to North America.[1] Adults feed on nectar; larvae feed on aphids and scale insects.[2] [3] [4]
- ^ "Eupeodes (Metasyrphus) perplexus (Osburn, 1910)". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ Heiss, Elizabeth Madeleine (1938). "A classification of the larvae and puparia of the Syrphidae of Illinois exclusive of aquatic forms". Series: Illinois biological monographs. 16: 1–142.
- ^ Vockeroth, J.R. (1992). The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 18. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Government Pub Centre. pp. 1–456. ISBN 0-660-13830-1.
- ^ Fluke, C. L (1952). "The Metasyrphus Species of North America". The American Museum of Natural History. 1590: 1–27.