Simosyrphus

Taxobox | name = "Simosyrphus grandicornis"

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image_width = 240px
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
genus = "Simosyrphus"
species = "S. grandicornis"
binomial = "Simosyrphus grandicornis"
binomial_authority = (Macquart, 1842)

"Simosyrphus grandicornis" is an Australasian hoverfly, the sole member of its genus, and is one of the two most common hoverflies in Australia, alongside "Melangyna viridiceps" [cite journal |quotes=no |author=E. Soleyman-Nezhadiyan & R. Laughlin |year=1998 |title=Voracity of larvae, rate of development in eggs, larvae and pupae, and flight seasons of adults of the hoverflies "Melangyna viridiceps" Macquart and "Symosyrphus grandicornis" Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) |journal=Australian Journal of Entomology |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=243–248 |doi=10.1111/j.1440-6055.1998.tb01578.x] .

References

External links

[http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/system/c_1259.htm "Simosyrphus grandicornis" on CSIRO website]