Callicera is a Holarctic genus of hoverflies[1]
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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.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Callicera have been used as bioindicators.
- C. aenea (Fabricius, 1781)[9]
- C. aurata (Rossi, 1790)
- C.christiani (Ghorpade, 1982)
- C.doleschalli (Verrall, 1913)
- C. duncani Curran, 1935
- C. erratica (Walker, 1849)
- C. exigua Smit, 2014
- C. fagesii Guérin-Menéville, 1844
- C. macquarti Rondani, 1844
- C. montensis Snow, 1892
- C. nitens (Coe, 1964)
- C.poultoni (Verrall, 1913)
- C.robusta (Coe, 1964)
- C. rohdendorfi Zimina, 1982
- C. rufa Schummel, 1842
- C.sackeni (Verrall, 1913)
- C. scintilla Smit, 2014
- C. spinolae Rondani, 1844
- C. sumatrensis (Meijere, 1919)
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