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Bromeliad Flies
Copestylum
Copestylum is one of the largest genera of hoverflies in the Americas. It comprises more than 300 species, of which only four have been found outside the Americas, having probably been introduced inside cacti.
35 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Phalacromya
subgenusPhalacromya

Copestylum marginatum
complexCopestylum marginatum

Volucellosia
subgenusVolucellosia

Copestylum wulpi
speciesCopestylum wulpi
Lepidopsis
subgenusLepidopsis

Copestylum exeugenia
speciesCopestylum exeugenia

Volosyrpha
subgenusVolosyrpha

Copestylum eugenia
speciesCopestylum eugenia

Copestylum azurea
speciesCopestylum azurea
Copestylum
subgenusCopestylum

Megametopon
subgenusMegametopon
Tachinosyrphus
subgenusTachinosyrphus
Viereckomyia
subgenusViereckomyia
Apophysophora
subgenusApophysophora
Copestylum abrupta
speciesCopestylum abrupta
Copestylum albifrons
speciesCopestylum albifrons
Copestylum alchimista
speciesCopestylum alchimista
Copestylum azurinum
speciesCopestylum azurinum
Copestylum circe
speciesCopestylum circe
Copestylum brazilianum
speciesCopestylum brazilianum
Copestylum circumscriptum
speciesCopestylum circumscriptum
Copestylum contumax
speciesCopestylum contumax
Copestylum brunnicolor
speciesCopestylum brunnicolor
Copestylum chaetogaster
speciesCopestylum chaetogaster
Copestylum calochaetum
speciesCopestylum calochaetum
Copestylum viola
speciesCopestylum viola
Copestylum tripunctatum
speciesCopestylum tripunctatum
Copestylum submetallicum
speciesCopestylum submetallicum
Copestylum spectrale
speciesCopestylum spectrale
Copestylum punctiferum
speciesCopestylum punctiferum
Copestylum roraima
speciesCopestylum roraima
Copestylum apicula
speciesCopestylum apicula
Copestylum neotropicum
speciesCopestylum neotropicum
Copestylum rectifacies
speciesCopestylum rectifacies
Copestylum azureum
speciesCopestylum azureum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 128846.