Species
Polydontomyia curvipes (Dimorphic sickleleg)
Polydontomyia curvipes. Photo: (c) Stuart Tingley, 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.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Diptera (Flies)
- Suborder: Brachycera (Brachyceran flies)
- Infraorder: Cyclorrhapha (Cyclorrhaphan flies)
- Zoosection: Aschiza (Aschizan flies)
- Family: Syrphidae (Hover flies)
- Subfamily: Eristalinae (Drone flies and allies)
- Tribe: Eristalini (Rat-tail maggot flies)
- Subtribe: Helophilina
- Genus: Polydontomyia
- Species: Polydontomyia curvipes (Dimorphic sickleleg)
- Genus: Polydontomyia
- Subtribe: Helophilina
- Tribe: Eristalini (Rat-tail maggot flies)
- Subfamily: Eristalinae (Drone flies and allies)
- Family: Syrphidae (Hover flies)
- Zoosection: Aschiza (Aschizan flies)
- Infraorder: Cyclorrhapha (Cyclorrhaphan flies)
- Suborder: Brachycera (Brachyceran flies)
- Order: Diptera (Flies)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)