| Copestylum | |
|---|---|
| |
| C. sexmaculatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Tribe: | Volucellini |
| Genus: | Copestylum Macquart, 18461 |
| Type species | |
| Copestylum flaviventris | |
| Species | |
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, 18461
- 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, 1892aNote 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, 1929Note 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
Notes
- originally described as Temnocera megacephala (Loew)
- Type-species, tibialis Shannon preoccupied so renamed rufitarse by Thompson4
References
References
- 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. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Giglio-Tos, Ermanno. "Ditteri del Messico". Torino, Italia: C. Clausen. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
External links
External links
- Media related to Copestylum at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Copestylum at Wikispecies