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Blera (fly)

Genus of flies

Genus of flies

  • Cynorrhina Verrall, 1901
  • Penthesilea Meigen, 1800 Blera is primarily a North American genus, though there are 3 species from Europe. The genus is characterized by the following characters:
  • face with distinct central knob, less developed in females; frons distinctly produced
  • antennae shorter than head width, arista dorsal
  • body covered long sometimes dense hairs
  • legs simple bare and undeveloped metasternite
  • short apical section of vein R 4+5

The larvae are found in decaying heartwood in roots of trees and stumps.

There are keys to American and British species. external map

Species

  • Blera ambigua (Shiraki, 1968)
  • Blera analis (Macquart, 1842)
  • Blera armillata (Osten Sacken, 1875)
  • Blera badia (Walker, 1849)
  • Blera chillcotti Thompson, 2012
  • Blera confusa Johnson, 1913
  • Blera eoa (Stackelberg, 1928)
  • Blera equimacula Huo, Ren & Zheng, 2007
  • Blera fallax (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Blera ferdinandi (Hervé-Bazin, 1914)
  • Blera flukei (Curran, 1953)
  • Blera garretti (Curran, 1924)
  • Blera himalaya Thompson, 2000
  • Blera humeralis (Williston, 1882)
  • Blera japonica (Shiraki, 1930)
  • Blera johnsoni (Coquillett, 1894)
  • Blera kyotoensis (Shiraki, 1952)
  • Blera lonigseta Barkalov & Cheng, 2011
  • Blera metcalfi (Curran, 1925)
  • Blera nigra (Williston, 1887)
  • Blera nigrescens Shiraki, 1968
  • Blera nigripes (Curran, 1925)
  • Blera nitens (Stackelberg, 1923)
  • Blera notata (Wiedemann, 1830)
  • Blera ochrozona (Stackelberg, 1928)
  • Blera pictipes (Bigot, 1884)
  • Blera robusta (Curran, 1922)
  • Blera scitula (Williston, 1887)
  • Blera shirakii Barkalov & Mutin, 1991
  • Blera umbratilis (Williston, 1887)
  • Blera violovitshi Mutin, 1991
  • Blera yudini Barkalov, 1991 Image:Blera scitula 159321439.jpg|Western Wood Fly Blera scitula Image:Blera humeralis 2.png|Yellow-legged Wood Fly Blera humeralis image:Blera pictipes whole.png|The Painted Wood Fly Blera pictipes Image:Painted Wood Fly - Blera pictipes (50343751071).jpg|Painted Wood Fly Blera pictipes

References

References

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  2. (1887). "Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae.". Bulletin of the United States National Museum.
  3. (1901). "Platypezidae, Pipunculidae and Syrphidae of Great Britain. Vol. 8, In his British flies". Gurney & Jackson.
  4. (1800). "Nouvelle classification des mouches a deux ailes (Diptera L.) d'apres un plan tout nouveau". Perronneau.
  5. Veen, M.P. van. (2004). "Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae". KNNV Publishing.
  6. (1953). "Notes and descriptions of some Mydaidae and Syrphidae". American Museum Novitates.
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  10. (1875). "A list of the North American Syrphidae". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences..
  11. (1849). "List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III". British Museum (Natural History).
  12. (2012). "Fabulous flower flies for famous fly fanatics (Diptera: Syrphidae). A tribute to the dipterists of the Canadian National Collection". The Canadian Entomologist.
  13. (1913). "On the Criorhina intersistens Walker and an allied species (Dipt.)". Entomological News.
  14. (1928). "Species palaearcticae generis Cynorrhina (Dipt., Syrphidae)". Konowia.
  15. (July 2017). "''Blera eoa'' (Stackelberg, 1928), en ny stubb-blomfluga för Europa (Diptera, Syrphidae)". Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap.
  16. (2007). "Fauna of Syrphidae from Mt. Qinling-Bash in China (Insecta: Diptera)". Beijing Huonzheng Printer LTD Co..
  17. (1914). "Syrphides recueillis au Japon par M. Edme Gallois". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France.
  18. (1924). "New Canadian Diptera, with a synopsis of the genus ''Cynorhina''". The Canadian Entomologist.
  19. (2000). "A new Oriental Blera (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Entomological News.
  20. (1882). "Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae". Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc..
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  23. (1952). "Studies on the Syrphidae. 2. Some new species from Japan with an interesting Trypetidae". Mushi.
  24. (2011). "A review of the Chinese species of the genus ''Blera'' (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new species". Zoosystematica Rossica.
  25. (1925). "Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico". The Kansas University Science Bulletin.
  26. (1923). "''Cynorrhina nitens'' sp. nov. (Syrphidae: Dipt.)". Supplta Ent..
  27. (1830). "Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks". Zweiter Theil. Schulz.
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  30. (1991). "Revision of hover-flies of the genus ''Blera'' Billberg 1820 (Diptera, Syrphidae). II". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie.
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