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Callicera
Callicera is a Holarctic genus of hoverflies.
They are beautiful metallic flies, with strikingly long antennae are medium-sized to rather large (wing length 9·75–15 mm.) bumblebee mimics. All the species are considered rare. Callicera larvae live in the moist rot-holes of overmature trees as saprophages.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
European Golden Longhorn
speciesCallicera aurata
Ivy Longhorn
speciesCallicera spinolae
American Golden Longhorn
speciesCallicera erratica
Dark Longhorn
speciesCallicera fagesii
Macquart's Longhorn
speciesCallicera macquartii
Yellow Longhorn
speciesCallicera aenea
Pine Longhorn
speciesCallicera rufa
Fiery Longhorn
speciesCallicera montensis
Orange-legged Longhorn
speciesCallicera duncani
Callicera scintilla
speciesCallicera scintilla
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 486744.