Sericomyia
Introduction Sercomyia are large flies with species that are bee mimics both short pile and long pile.Sericomyiine flower flies are common in boreal forests across the Holarctic region and southward at higher elevations into the Oriental and Neotropical regions.Sericomyia species have larvae of the rat-tailed maggot type, often found  in ponds rich in decomposing vegetation where they filter out microorganisms as theirfood
Description Sericomyia head, plumose aristaThey have an oval flagellum with a plumose arista. The eye are bare and narrowly tobroadly holoptic in male. The wings are darkly colored along the anterior margin. Cell r1 is open. The  stigmatic crossvein is absent. The cellr4+5 with long petiole, longer than humeral crossvein. The vein R4+5 is straight to moderately sinuate. Sericomyia wing diagramSericomyia head, plumose arista
Species '''Subgenus:''' ''Sericomyia''*''S. arctica'' Schirmer, 1913*''S. bifasciata'' Williston, 1887*''S. carolinensis'' (Metcalf, 1917)*''S. chalcopyga'' Loew, 1863*''S. chrysotoxoides'' Macquart, 1842*''S. dux'' (Stackelberg, 1930)*''S. hispanica'' Peris Torres, 1962*''S. jakutica'' (Stackelberg, 1927)*''S. lappona'' (Linnaeus, 1758)*''S. lata'' (Coquillett, 1907)*''S. militaris'' Walker, 1849*''S. nigra'' Portschinsky, 1873*''S. sachalinica'' Stackelberg, 1926*''S. sexfasciata'' Walker, 1849*''S. silentis'' (Harris, 1776)*''S. slossonae'' Curran, 1934*''S. transversa'' (Osburn, 1926)'''Subgenus:''' ''Arctophila''*''S. bequaerti'' (Hervé-Bazin, 1913)*''S. bombiformis'' (Fallén, 1810)*''S. flagrans'' (Osten Sacken, 1875)*''S. harveyi'' (Osburn, 1908)*''S. meyeri'' (Fluke, 1939)*''S. superbiens'' (Müller, 1776)'''Subgenus:''' ''Conosyrphus''*''S. tolli'' (Frey, 1915)
Gallery File:Sericomyia chrysotoxoides.jpg|Sericomyia chrysotoxoides femaleFile:Arctophila flagrans male dorsal.jpg|Sericomyia flagrans maleFile:Sericomyia lappona.jpg|Sericomyia lappona femaleFile:Sericomyiamilitaris.jpg|Sericomyia militaris femaleFile:Sericomyia silentis.jpg|Sericomyia silentis femaleFile:Arctophila superbiens2.female.jpg|Sericomyia superbiens female
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