Copestylum

Copestylum
C. haagei
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]

Species List

For the moment the following list consists of subgenera and type species[3] only.

Subgenus: Copestylum Macquart, 1846

  • Copestylum flaviventre Macquart, 1846

Subgenus: Phalacromyia Rondani, 1848

  • Copestylum submetallicum (Rondani, 1848)

Subgenus: Glaurotricha Thomson, 1869

  • Copestylum muscarium (Thomson, 1869)

Subgenus: Atemnocera Bigot, 1882a

  • Copestylum scutellatum (Macquart, 1842)

Subgenus: Apophysophora Williston, 1888

  • Copestylum trituberculatum Thompson, 1976

Subgenus: Megametopon (= Ophromyia)[4] Giglio-Tos, 1891

  • Copestylum nasicum (Williston, 1891)

Subgenus: Camerania Giglio-Tos, 1892a [Note 1]

  • Copestylum macrocephalum (Giglio-Tos, 1892)

Subgenus: Viereckomyia Curran, 1925b

  • Copestylum gibberum (Schiner, 1868)

Subgenus: Lepidopsis Curran, 1925b

  • Copestylum compactum (Curran, 1925)

Subgenus: Volosyrpha Shannon, 1929 [Note 2]

  • Copestylum rufitarse Thompson, 1976

Subgenus: Volucellosia Curran, 1930d

  • Copestylum fornax Townsend, 1895

Subgenus: Tachinosyrphus Hull, 1936b

  • Copestylum pseudotachina (Hull, 1936)

Notes

  1. ↑ originally described as Temnocera megacephala Loew)
  2. ↑ Type-species, tibialis Shannon preoccupied so renamed rufitarse by Thompson[3]

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, F. C. & Vockeroth, J. R. (May 27, 2007). Neal L. Evenhuis, ed. "51. Family Syrphidae". Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog – Web Version. Bishop Museum. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 M. A. Marcos-García & C. Pérez-Bañón (2002). "Life cycle, adult and immature stages of a new species of Copestylum (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Mexico reared from Cactaceae" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95 (4): 432–440. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2002)095[0432:LCAAIS]2.0.CO;2.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Sedman, Y. S. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  4. ↑ Giglio-Tos, Ermanno. "Ditteri del Messico". Torino, Italia: C. Clausen. Retrieved 16 February 2011.