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. Callicera have been used as bioindicators.

Species

 * C. aenea (Fabricius, 1781)
 * 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)

External images
Images representing Callicera