Tribe
Eristalini (Rat-tail maggot flies)
Eristalis hirta. Photo: (c) K Schneider, 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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