The Bacchini are a

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. The tribe Bacchini contains a worldwide distribution of over 430 species. They are mostly small elongate flies with black heads and scutellum. Larvae are predatory, mainly upon aphids, like others in the subfamily

Syrphinae The Syrphinae constitute one of the three subfamilies of the fly family Syrphidae. Most larvae of this subfamily feed on aphids. It is a monophyletic group with more than 1,600 species. Gallery File:Melanostoma sp. (scalare^) Female. - Flick ...

, itself containing around 1,600 species. They in turn belong to the family Syrphidae with over 6,200 species worldwide.

List of genera

*'' Baccha''

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, 1805 *'' Eocheilosia''

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, 1949 *'' Platycheirus'' Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 *''

Pyrophaena ''Pyrophaena '' is a subgenus of the hoverfly genus '' Platycheirus'' distinctive enough to sometimes treated as a separate genus in its own right. Indeed a recent study of the phylogeny of the subfamily Syrphinae found it to be closer to other ...

'' Schiner, 1860 *'' Rohdendorfia'' Smirnov, 1924 *'' Spazigaster'' Rondani, 1843 *'' Syrphocheilosia''

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, 1864 Baccha elongata (Syrphidae) - (imago), Elst (Gld), the Netherlands.jpg, ''Baccha elongata'' The hoverfly Platycheirus scutatus, Dawyck Botanic Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 4120733.jpg, '' Platycheirus scutatus'' Rohdendorfia sp.jpg, ''Rohdendorfia'' sp. Spazigaster.jpg, ''Spazigaster'' sp.

References

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