Copestylum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Subfamily: | Eristalinae |
Tribe: | Volucellini |
Genus: | Copestylum Macquart, 1846 |
Type species | |
Copestylum flaviventris Macquart, 1846 [1] |
Copestylum is one of the largest genera of hoverflies in the Americas.[2] It comprises more than 300 species,[3] of which only four have been found outside the Americas, having probably been introduced inside cacti.[2]
For the moment the following list consists of subgenera and type species[3] only.
Subgenus: Copestylum Macquart, 1846
Subgenus: Phalacromyia Rondani, 1848
Subgenus: Glaurotricha Thomson, 1869
Subgenus: Atemnocera Bigot, 1882a
Subgenus: Apophysophora Williston, 1888
Subgenus: Megametopon (= Ophromyia)[4] Giglio-Tos, 1891
Subgenus: Camerania Giglio-Tos, 1892a [Note 1]
Subgenus: Viereckomyia Curran, 1925b
Subgenus: Lepidopsis Curran, 1925b
Subgenus: Volosyrpha Shannon, 1929 [Note 2]
Subgenus: Volucellosia Curran, 1930d
Subgenus: Tachinosyrphus Hull, 1936b