Scaeva

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Scaeva f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Syrphidae.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Diptera – order; Brachycera – suborder; Muscomorpha – infraorder; Aschiza – section; Syrphoidea – superfamily; Syrphidae – family; Syrphinae - subfamily; Syrphini - tribe

• (genus): Scaeva affinis, Scaeva pyrastri, Scaeva selenitica - selected species

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• Scaeva at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Scaeva at the Catalogue of Life 
• Scaeva at National Center for Biotechnology Information

From scaeva (“left; left-handed; clumsy; unlucky”), from Proto-Italic *skaiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwos.

Scaeva m sg (genitive Scaevae); first declension

1. a cognomen used by the gentes Junia, Sibidiena, Publicia, and others

   Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Scaeva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.