Biology:Copestylum

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Copestylum
Syrphid - Copestylum sexmaculatum, Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Felda, Florida - 11868955576.jpg
C. sexmaculatum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Tribe: Volucellini
Genus: Copestylum
Macquart, 1846[1]
Type species
Copestylum flaviventris
Macquart, 1846[1][2]
Species

List of Copestylum species

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C. vesicularium

Copestylum is one of the largest genera of hoverflies in the Americas.[3] It comprises more than 300 species,[4] of which only four have been found outside the Americas, having probably been introduced by the importation of cacti in which the larvae live.[3]

Taxonomy

Subgenera and type species

The following is a list of the subgenera within Copestylum, with just the type species of each subgenus listed afterwards.[4]

  • Subgenus Copestylum Macquart, 1846 – type Copestylum flaviventre Macquart, 1846[1]
  • Subgenus Phalacromyia Rondani, 1848 – type Copestylum submetallicum (Rondani, 1848)
  • Subgenus Glaurotricha Thomson, 1869 – type Copestylum muscarium (Thomson, 1869)
  • Subgenus Atemnocera Bigot, 1882a – type Copestylum scutellatum (Macquart, 1842)
  • Subgenus Apophysophora Williston, 1888 – type Copestylum trituberculatum Thomson, 1976
  • Subgenus Megametopon (= Ophromyia)[5] Giglio-Tos, 1891 – type Copestylum nasicum (Williston, 1891)
  • Subgenus Camerania Giglio-Tos, 1892a[Note 1] – type Copestylum macrocephalum (Giglio-Tos, 1892)
  • Subgenus Viereckomyia Curran, 1925b – type Copestylum gibberum (Schiner, 1868)
  • Subgenus Lepidopsis Curran, 1925b – type Copestylum compactum (Curran, 1925)
  • Subgenus Volosyrpha Shannon, 1929[Note 2] – type Copestylum rufitarse Thomson, 1976
  • Subgenus Volucellosia Curran, 1930d – type Copestylum fornax Townsend, 1895
  • Subgenus Tachinosyrphus Hull, 1936b – type Copestylum pseudotachina (Hull, 1936)

Species

For a complete list of Copestylum species, see List of Copestylum species.

Notes

  1. ↑ originally described as Temnocera megacephala (Loew)
  2. ↑ Type-species, tibialis Shannon preoccupied so renamed rufitarse by Thompson[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Macquart, P.J.M. (1846). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1]. Lille: Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts. pp. 133–364, 20 pls. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109525#page/5/mode/1up. Retrieved 5 December 2020. 
  2. ↑ Neal L. Evenhuis, ed (May 27, 2007). "51. Family Syrphidae". Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog – Web Version. Bishop Museum. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/syrphidae.html. Retrieved January 24, 2011. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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:LCAAIS2.0.CO;2]. http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/2795/1/C.%20alberlena.pdf. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. https://archive.org/stream/familysyrphidae00thom#page/n1/mode/2up. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
  5. ↑ Giglio-Tos, Ermanno. "Ditteri del Messico". Torino, Italia: C. Clausen. https://archive.org/stream/ditteridelmessic00gigl#page/n5/mode/2up. Retrieved 16 February 2011. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2746435 entry




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