Tribe

Eristalini (Rat-tail maggot flies)

Helophilus fasciatus. Photo: (c) Thomas Shahan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Eristalini is a tribe of hoverflies. Several species are well-known honeybee mimics, such as the drone fly Eristalis tenax, while other genera such as Helophilus and Parhelophilus exhibit wasp-like patterns of yellow and black stripes, both strategies to avoid predation by visual predators such as birds.

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Subtaxa

Where in Humboldt



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