Volucella

Taxobox
name = "Volucella"

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image_caption = "Volucella pellucens"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
familia = Syrphidae
subfamilia = Eristalinae
tribus = Volucellini
genus = "Volucella"
genus_authority = (Geoffroy, 1762)
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"Volucella" is a genus of large, broad bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive aristas and the face is extended downwards. [cite book|author=Coe, R.L.|year=1953 |title=Diptera: Syrphidae, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 10 Pt 1|pages=98pp |publisher=Royal Entomological Society of London] They are strongly migratory. and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The [larva] e of most species live in nests of bumble bees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators. [cite book|author=Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J.|year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society]

pecies

*"V. bombylans" (Linnaeus 1758)
*"V. inanis" (Linnaeus 1758)
*"V. inflata" (Fabricius, 1794)
*"V. pellucens" (Linnaeus 1758)
*"V. zonaria" (Poda, 1761)

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