{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pelecocera_antenna.jpg | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Pelecocera | authority = Meigen, 1822<ref name="Meigen1822">{{cite book |last1=Meigen |first1=Johann Wilhelm |title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten |date=1822 |publisher=Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann |location=Hamm |pages=x, 416, pls. 22–32 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=14 April 2019}}</ref> | type_species = ''Pelecocera tricincta'' | type_species_authority = Meigen, 1822<ref name="Meigen1822"/> | synonyms = }}

'''''Pelecocera''''' is a Holarctic genus of Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.<ref name="VanVeen">{{cite book |last= Van Veen |first= M.P. |title= Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae |type= Hardback |year= 2004 |publisher= KNNV Publishing |location= Utrecht |isbn= 90-5011-199-8 |pages= 254 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Stubbs, Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J. |name-list-style=amp |year=1983 |title=British Hov[http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=81464 External images] erflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society|page=253, xvpp}}</ref> Antennae with segment 3 a half moon shape (flat above, only rounded below) or triangular, in the female the arista very thick, spike-like, inserted at the anterior extremity of segment 3. They are small black and yellow or orange flies found mainly on heaths.

==Species== *''Pelecocera apichaetus'' <small>(Curran, 1923)</small> *''Pelecocera escorialensis'' <small>Strobl, 1909</small><ref name="StroblCzerny1909">{{cite journal |last1=Strobl |first1=P. Gabriel |last2=Czerny |first2=Leander |title=Spanische Dipteren. III |journal=Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich. |date=1909 |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=121–310 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137015#page/521/mode/1up |accessdate=26 May 2019}}</ref> *''Pelecocera latifrons'' <small>Loew, 1856</small> *''Pelecocera lugubris'' <small>Perris, 1839</small> *''Pelecocera pergandei'' <small>(Williston, 1884)</small> *''Pelecocera scaevoides'' <small>(Fallén, 1817)</small> now ''Chamaesyrphus'' *''Pelecocera tricincta'' <small>Meigen, 1822</small><ref name="Meigen1822"/> *''Pelecocera willistoni'' <small>Snow, 1895</small>

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==External links== * [http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=81464 Images representing ''Pelecocera'']

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Category:Flies of Europe Category:Hoverfly genera Category:Rhingiini Category:Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen

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