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| Toxomerus | |
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| Toxomerus marginatus female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Syrphini |
| Genus: | Toxomerus Macquart, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Toxomerus notatus Macquart, 1855
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Toxomerus is a very large genus of hoverflies. They are found in many parts of North and South America.[1][2] Most larvae are predators on soft bodied insects, though a few species have been shown to feed on pollen.[1] Adults feed on the pollen of a wide range of flowers.[3]
- ^ a b Mengual, Ximo; Gunilla Stahls; Santos Rojo (2008). "First phylogeny of predatory flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (4). Wiley-Blackwell: 543–562. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00200.x. hdl:10045/12249. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ Reemer, M. (2010). "A second survey of Surinam Syrphidae (Diptera):introduction and Syrphinae" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 153 (2): 163–196. doi:10.1163/22119434-900000295.
- ^ Reemer, Menno; Rotheray, Graham E. (16 April 2009). "Pollen feeding larvae in the presumed predatory syrphine genus Toxomerus Macquart (Diptera, Syrphidae)". Journal of Natural History. 43 (15). UK: Taylor and Francis: 939–949. doi:10.1080/00222930802610576. ISSN 1464-5262.