Melanostoma
| Melanostoma | |
|---|---|
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| Melanostoma scalare female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Bacchini |
| Genus: | Melanostoma Schiner, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Musca millina[1] Linnaeus 1758 | |
Melanostoma sp., oviposition
Melanostoma is a large genus of hoverflies.[2] Little is known of their biology, but they are suspected to be general predators of small insects in leaf litter.[3][4]
Species[5]
- Melanostoma abdominale Shiraki, 1930
- Melanostoma aenoscutum Hull, 1964[1]
- Melanostoma algens Curran, 1931
- Melanostoma alpinum Szilády, 1942
- Melanostoma alticola Speiser, 1910[1]
- Melanostoma annulipes Macquart, 1842[1]
- Melanostoma apicale Bigot, 1884
- Melanostoma atrum Sack, 1932
- Melanostoma aurantiaca Becker, 1921
- Melanostoma babyssa (Walker, 1849)
- Melanostoma babyssola Speiser, 1924[1]
- Melanostoma bergmani Doesburg, 1966
- Melanostoma bicruciatum (Bigot, 1884)
- Melanostoma bituberculatum Loew, 1858[1]
- Melanostoma boreomontanum Mutin, 1986
- Melanostoma diffusum Hull, 1941[1]
- Melanostoma dubium (Zetterstedt, 1838)
- Melanostoma elongatum Matsumura, 1919
- Melanostoma eversmanni Enderlein, 1938
- Melanostoma fasciatum (Macquart, 1850)
- Melanostoma flavipenne Matsumura, 1919
- Melanostoma flavipleurum Hull, 1964[1]
- Melanostoma floripeta Speiser, 1910[1]
- Melanostoma fumivenosum Doesburg, 1966
- Melanostoma gedehense Meijere, 1914
- Melanostoma gymnocera Bigot, 1891[1]
- Melanostoma incisum Matsumura, 1916
- Melanostoma incompletum Becker, 1908 - Canarian endemic species
- Melanostoma incurvum Dirickx, 2001
- Melanostoma infuscatum Becker, 1909[1]
- Melanostoma keiseri Dirickx, 2001
- Melanostoma matilei Dirickx, 2001
- Melanostoma meijerei Goot, 1964
- Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Melanostoma motodomariense Matsumura, 1919
- Melanostoma normale Curran, 1931
- Melanostoma ochraceum Dirickx, 2001
- Melanostoma orientale Wiedemann, 1824
- Melanostoma otaniense Matsumura, 1919
- Melanostoma pedius Walker, 1852
- Melanostoma perinetense Dirickx, 2001
- Melanostoma pumicatum (Meigen, 1838)
- Melanostoma pyrophaenoides Speiser, 1910[1]
- Melanostoma quadrifasciatum Curran, 1928
- Melanostoma satyriphilum Hull, 1941[1]
- Melanostoma scalare (Fabricius, 1794)[1]
- Melanostoma simplex Doesburg, 1955[1]
- Melanostoma subbituberculatum Kassebeer, 2000
- Melanostoma sulphuripes Hull, 1964[1]
- Melanostoma sylvarum Hull, 1941[1]
- Melanostoma teizonis Matsumura, 1919
- Melanostoma tenuis Matsumura, 1919
- Melanostoma tiantaiensis Huo & Zheng, 2003
- Melanostoma transversum Shiraki & Edashige, 1953
- Melanostoma trochanteratum Hull, 1964[1]
- Melanostoma tumescens Szilády, 1940
- Melanostoma univittatum Wiedemann, 1824
- Melanostoma violaceum Hull, 1964[1]
- Melanostoma wollastoni Wakeham-Dawson, Aguiar, Smit, McCullough & Wyatt, 2004 - Madeiran endemic species
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References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Smith, Kenneth G.V.; Vockeroth, J.R. (1980). Crosskey, R.W., ed. Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (Print). London: British museum (Natural History). pp. 1– 1436. ISBN 0565 00821 8.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
- ↑ "Melanostoma". Encyclopedia of Life, available from http://eol.org/pages/25610/entries/33710029/overview. Accessed on 25 January, 2012
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