Doros (fly)

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Genus of flies

title: "Doros (fly)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hoverfly-genera", "syrphini", "taxa-named-by-johann-wilhelm-meigen"] description: "Genus of flies" topic_path: "general/hoverfly-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doros_(fly)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flies ::

| image = Fauna Germanica, Diptera (6046265968).jpg | image_caption =Doros profuges depicted in Fauna Germanica | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Doros | authority = Meigen, 1803 | type_species = Syrphus conopseus | type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1775 | synonyms = *Bacchiopsis Matsumura, 1916

Doros is a genus of hoverflies. They are large slender flies, that mimic solitary wasp in slow flight. They have very limited flight period.

Species

(* Caution with historical usage of "Doros conopseus (Fabricius, 1775)" from misidentified material, elsewhere an unjustified emendation of Ceriana conopsoides (Linnaeus, 1758).

References

References

  1. (1803). "Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten". Mag. Insektenkd.
  2. (1916). "Thousand insects of Japan. Additamenta". Keisei-sha.
  3. (1983). "British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide". [[British Entomological and Natural History Society]].
  4. (2000). "Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae)". Biological Record Centre.
  5. Veen, M.P. van. (2004). "Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae". KNNV Publishing.
  6. (1863). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena". Centuria Quarta. Berl. Ent. Z..
  7. (1780). "An exposition of English insects". Robson Co..
  8. Barkalov, A.V. "Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
  9. (1926). "Eine neue ''Doros''-Art aus Zentral-Asien". Archiv für Naturgeschichte.

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