Syritta

Taxobox
name="Syritta"

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image_caption = male "Syritta pipiens"
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Aschiza
superfamilia = Syrphoidea
familia = Syrphidae
subfamilia = Milesiinae
tribus = Xylotini
genus = "Syritta"
genus_authority = Le Peletier & Serville, 1828
diversity_link = Syritta
diversity = 60 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =see text

"Syritta" is a genus of hover flies.

The genus probably originated in the Afrotropical region. 13 of the 18 recognized species groups are found south of the Sahara. 15 species inhabit the Oriental and Australian-Pacific regions, and only six species are described from the Palearctic region. The two species that occur in North America as far down as Mexico, "S. flaviventris" and "S. pipiens", were probably introduced by humans.

pecies

* "S. aenigmatopatria" Hardy, 1964
* "S. flaviventris" Macquart, 1842 - Africa, Europe, introduced to South and North America and Easter Island
* "S. hackeri" Klocker, 1924 - Australia, Hawai'i, Java
* "S. indica" Wiedemann, 1824 - India, Nepal, Taiwan
* "S. noona" Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 - Papua New Guinea
* "S. oceanica" Macquart - Australia, Polynesia, Hawai'i, Solomon Islands
* "S. orientalis" Macquart - India, Australia, Hawai'i, Indonesia, Micronesia
* "S. papua" Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 - Papua New Guinea
* "S. pipiens" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "S. polita" Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 - Papua New Guinea
* "S. snyderi" Shiraki, 1963 - Bonin Islands
* "S. vittata" Portschinsky, 1857 - Europe

References

* Australian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog: [http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/syrphidae.html Syrphidae]
* (2005): The Genus Syritta: A World Revision of the Genus "Syritta" Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 (Diptera: Syrphidae). Entomonograph Volume 15. Apollo Books ISBN 8788757536 — [http://www.eje.cz/pdfarticles/1186/eje_103_4_816_BRChvala.pdf Review]
* BugGuide.net: [http://bugguide.net/node/view/7226 "Syritta pipiens"]
* Nearctica.com: [http://nearctica.com/nomina/diptera/dipsyrph.htm Syrphidae]
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