Global InformationPyrophaena information
| Pyrophaena | |
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| Platycheirus rosarum male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Diptera
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| Family: | Syrphidae
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| Subfamily: | Syrphinae
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| Tribe: | Bacchini
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| Genus: | Platycheirus
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| Subgenus: | Pyrophaena
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Pyrophaena is a subgenus of the hoverfly genus Platycheirus[1] distinctive enough to sometimes treated as a separate genus in its own right.[2] Indeed a recent study of the phylogeny of the subfamily Syrphinae[3] found it to be closer to other certain other genera – Rohdendorfia, Syrphocheilosia and Spazigaster. Since only a few species were sampled the true systematic structure must await a more thorough survey of Platycheirus and related genera.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
- ^ Ximo Mengual; Gunilla Ståhls; Santos Rojo (2008). "First phylogeny of predatory flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (4): 543–562. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00200.x. hdl:10045/12249. PMID 34879632. S2CID 85348839. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-04-09.