Rhoga
''Rhoga'' is a genus of hoverfly, hoverflies, with five known species. All are small, delicate, pale yellowish flies, with distinct black pilose brushes on their metatibiae. These flies are probably mimics of stingless bees of the tribe Meliponini. Biology Larvae are found in ant nests. Distribution They are native to the Neotropical, Neotropics. Species *''Rhoga lutescens, R. lutescens'' Francis Walker (entomologist), Walker, 1857 *''Rhoga maculata, R. maculata'' (Shannon, 1927) *''Rhoga mellea, R. mellea'' (Charles Howard Curran, Curran, 1940) *''Rhoga sepulchrasilva, R. sepulchrasilva'' (Frank Montgomery Hull, Hull, 1937) *''Rhoga xanthoprosopus, R. xanthoprosopus'' Barretto & Lane, 1947 References

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Rhoga Xanthoprosopus
''Rhoga'' is a genus of hoverfly, hoverflies, with five known species. All are small, delicate, pale yellowish flies, with distinct black pilose brushes on their metatibiae. These flies are probably mimics of stingless bees of the tribe Meliponini. Biology Larvae are found in ant nests. Distribution They are native to the Neotropical, Neotropics. Species *''Rhoga lutescens, R. lutescens'' Francis Walker (entomologist), Walker, 1857 *''Rhoga maculata, R. maculata'' (Shannon, 1927) *''Rhoga mellea, R. mellea'' (Charles Howard Curran, Curran, 1940) *''Rhoga sepulchrasilva, R. sepulchrasilva'' (Frank Montgomery Hull, Hull, 1937) *''Rhoga xanthoprosopus, R. xanthoprosopus'' Barretto & Lane, 1947 References

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