Melangyna cincta | |
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Melangyna cincta (male) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Genus: | Melangyna |
Species: | M. cincta |
Binomial name | |
Melangyna cincta (Fallén), 1817 |
Melangyna cincta is a European species of hoverfly. This species has a somewhat muddled taxonomic history. Stubbs & Falk treat it as a member of the genus Melangyna. Other sources place it in Meligramma (as either a separate genus or a subgenus of Melangyna) or Fagisyrphus.[1]