Brachyopa

Brachyopa
Brachopa 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. 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. 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.