Brachyopa

Brachyopa
Brachyopa scutellaris museum specimen
Brachyopa sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Brachyopini
Genus: Brachyopa
Meigen, 1822
Type species
Musca conica
Panzer, 1798

Brachyopa is a genus of hoverflies[1][2][3] whose grey and brown colouration is unusual for this family and these flies can easily be overlooked amongst members of other fly families. The larvae can be found under the bark of dead branches and trees in decaying sap.

Species[4]

Subgenus: Brachyopa

  • Brachyopa atlantea Kassebeer, 2000
  • Brachyopa bicolor (Fallén, 1817)[5]
  • Brachyopa bimaculosa Doczkal & Dziock, 2004
  • Brachyopa cinerea Wahlberg, 1844
  • Brachyopa cinereovittata Bigot, 1884
  • Brachyopa cynops Snow, 1892
  • Brachyopa daeckei Johnson, 1917
  • Brachyopa diversa Johnson, 1917
  • Brachyopa dorsata Zetterstedt, 1837
  • Brachyopa flavescens Shannon, 1915
  • Brachyopa gigas Lovett, 1919
  • Brachyopa grunewaldensis Kassebeer, 2000[5]
  • Brachyopa insensilis Collin, 1939[5]
  • Brachyopa maculipennis Thompson, 1980
  • Brachyopa maritima Violovitsh, 1980[6]
  • Brachyopa media Williston, 1882
  • Brachyopa notata Osten Sacken, 1875
  • Brachyopa obscura Thompson & Torp, 1982
  • Brachyopa ornamentosa Violovitsh, 1977[6]
  • Brachyopa panzeri Goffe, 1945
  • Brachyopa paradoxa Krivosheina, 2004
  • Brachyopa perplexa Curran, 1922
  • Brachyopa pilosa Collin, 1939
  • Brachyopa pivanica Mutin, 1984[6]
  • Brachyopa plena Collin, 1939[5]
  • Brachyopa primorica Mutin, 1998
  • Brachyopa punctipennis Curran, 1925
  • Brachyopa quadrimaculosa Thompson, 1981
  • Brachyopa rufiabdominalis Jones, 1917
  • Brachyopa scutellaris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1843
  • Brachyopa silviae Doczkal & Dziock, 2004
  • Brachyopa stackelbergi Krivosheina, 2004
  • Brachyopa tabarkensis Kassebeer, 2002
  • Brachyopa testacea (Fallén, 1817)
  • Brachyopa vacua Osten Sacken, 1875
  • Brachyopa violovitshi Mutin, 1985
  • Brachyopa vittata Zetterstedt, 1843[5]
  • Brachyopa zhelochovtsevi Mutin, 1998

Subgenus: Hammerschmidtia – often considered a full genus.

  • Brachyopa ferruginea (Fallén, 1817)
  • Brachyopa ingrica (Stackelberg, 1952)
  • Brachyopa tropia Chu, 1994

Subgenus: Trichobrachyopa

  • Brachyopa tristis Kassebeer, 2001

References

  1. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN 1-899935-03-7.
  2. ↑ Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN 1-870393-54-6.
  3. ↑ Veen, M.P. van (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
  4. ↑ "Brachyopa Meigen, 1822." Encyclopedia of Life, available from http://eol.org/pages/80841/entries/33711139/overview. Retrieved 8 Jan 2012
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 De Courcy Williams, Michael E.; Toussidou, Menia; Speight, Martin C.D. (December 2011). "Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) new to Greece from Rhodope Mountains of Thrace and eastern Macedonia including Simosyrphus scutellaris new to Europe". Dipterists Digest (Print). Second Series. Dipterists Forum. 18 (2): 181–198. ISSN 0953-7260.
  6. 1 2 3 Barkalov, A.V. "Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". Novosibirsk, Russia: the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
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