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Plushback Flies
Palpada
Palpada is a genus of 85 neotropical and nearctic flower flies or hoverflies
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Northern Plushback
speciesPalpada vinetorum

Tropical Plushback
speciesPalpada furcata

Golden Plushback
speciesPalpada mexicana

Double-banded Plushback
speciesPalpada agrorum

Bicolored Plushback
speciesPalpada pusilla

White-faced Plushback
speciesPalpada albifrons

Single-banded Plushback
speciesPalpada alhambra

Palpada elegans
speciesPalpada elegans

Palpada Scutellaris group
complexPalpada scutellaris

Palpada ruficeps
speciesPalpada ruficeps

Palpada meigenii
speciesPalpada meigenii

Palpada pygolampa
speciesPalpada pygolampa

Palpada thalia
speciesPalpada thalia

Wide-eyed Plushback
speciesPalpada texana

Palpada nigripes
speciesPalpada nigripes

Palpada chilena
speciesPalpada chilena

Harlequin Plushback
speciesPalpada rufiventris

Palpada ochracea
speciesPalpada ochracea

Palpada rufipedes
speciesPalpada rufipedes

Palpada urotaenia
speciesPalpada urotaenia

Palpada fasciata
speciesPalpada fasciata

Palpada cosmia
speciesPalpada cosmia

Large-spotted Plushback
speciesPalpada aemula

Dusky Plushback
speciesPalpada minutalis

Palpada atrimana
speciesPalpada atrimana

Palpada hortorum
speciesPalpada hortorum

Palpada prietorum
speciesPalpada prietorum
Palpada monticola
speciesPalpada monticola
Palpada suprarufa
speciesPalpada suprarufa
Palpada triangularis
speciesPalpada triangularis
Palpada amazon
speciesPalpada amazon
Palpada albiventris
speciesPalpada albiventris
Palpada bequaerti
speciesPalpada bequaerti
Palpada bistellata
speciesPalpada bistellata
Palpada braziliensis
speciesPalpada braziliensis
Palpada caliginosa
speciesPalpada caliginosa
Palpada claripennis
speciesPalpada claripennis
Palpada clarissima
speciesPalpada clarissima
Palpada cora
speciesPalpada cora
Palpada diminuta
speciesPalpada diminuta
Palpada distinguenda
speciesPalpada distinguenda
Palpada expicta
speciesPalpada expicta
Palpada familiaris
speciesPalpada familiaris
Palpada fasciculata
speciesPalpada fasciculata
Palpada flavipennis
speciesPalpada flavipennis
Palpada flavoscutellata
speciesPalpada flavoscutellata
Palpada florea
speciesPalpada florea
Palpada funerea
speciesPalpada funerea
Palpada fuscipennis
speciesPalpada fuscipennis
Palpada gagathina
speciesPalpada gagathina
Palpada incubus
speciesPalpada incubus
Palpada inversa
speciesPalpada inversa
Palpada lindneri
speciesPalpada lindneri
Palpada xanthosceles
speciesPalpada xanthosceles
Palpada geniculata
speciesPalpada geniculata
Palpada taenia
speciesPalpada taenia
Palpada spectabilis
speciesPalpada spectabilis
Palpada solennis
speciesPalpada solennis
Palpada mirabilis
speciesPalpada mirabilis
Palpada interrupta
speciesPalpada interrupta
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 55265.