Chrysogaster

Chrysogaster
Chrysogaster solstitialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Milesiinae
Tribe:	Brachyopini
Genus:	Chrysogaster Meigen, 1803

Chrysogaster is a genus of small hoverflies in the subfamily Milesiinae.^[1] They are dark or black with shiny colourful reflections and can often be seen visiting flowers in damp marshy areas where the aquatic larvae live. Species in the related genera Melanogaster, Orthonevra, Lejogaster and Riponnensia were formerly treated as members of Chrysogaster.

Species

• Chrysogaster antitheus Walker, 1849
• Chrysogaster basalis Loew, 1857
• Chrysogaster cemiteriorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chrysogaster chalybeata Meigen, 1822
• Chrysogaster inflatifrons Shannon, 1916
• Chrysogaster mediterraneus Vujic, 1999
• Chrysogaster rondanii Maibach & Goeldlin, 1995
• Chrysogaster simplex Loew, 1843
• Chrysogaster solstitialis (Fallén, 1817)
• Chrysogaster virescens Loew, 1854

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References

1. ^ Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd (revised) ed.). British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 253, xvpp. ISBN 0950289132. 

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