Rhingia

Taxobox | name = "Rhingia"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Rhingia campestris" female
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Aschiza
superfamilia = Syrphoidea
familia = Syrphidae
subfamilia = Milesiinae
tribus = Cheilosiini
genus = "Rhingia"
genus_authority = Scopoli, 1763
synonyms =

"Rhingia " is a genus of hoverflies. They all have a very distinctive long snout. The larva are associated with animal dung. Adults feed on nectar and pollen. [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

*"R. campestris" Meigen, 1822
*"R. nasica" Say, 1823
*"R. rostrata" (Linnaeus 1758 )

References