Copestylum

Copestylum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Eristalinae
Tribe:	Volucellini
Genus:	Copestylum Macquart, 1846
Type species
Copestylum flaviventris Macquart, 1846 [1]

Copestylum is one of the largest genera of hoverflies in the Americas.^[2] It comprises more than 300 species,^[3] of which only four have been found outside the Americas, having probably been introduced inside cacti.^[2]

Species List

For the moment the following list consists of subgenera and type species^[3] only.

Subgenus: Copestylum Macquart, 1846

• Copestylum flaviventre Macquart, 1846

Subgenus: Phalacromyia Rondani, 1848

• Copestylum submetallicum (Rondani, 1848)

Subgenus: Glaurotricha Thomson, 1869

• Copestylum muscarium (Thomson, 1869)

Subgenus: Atemnocera Bigot, 1882a

• Copestylum scutellatum (Macquart, 1842)

Subgenus: Apophysophora Williston, 1888

• Copestylum trituberculatum Thompson, 1976

Subgenus: Megametopon (= Ophromyia)^[4] Giglio-Tos, 1891

• Copestylum nasicum (Williston, 1891)

Subgenus: Camerania Giglio-Tos, 1892a ^{[Note 1]}

• Copestylum macrocephalum (Giglio-Tos, 1892)

Subgenus: Viereckomyia Curran, 1925b

• Copestylum gibberum (Schiner, 1868)

Subgenus: Lepidopsis Curran, 1925b

• Copestylum compactum (Curran, 1925)

Subgenus: Volosyrpha Shannon, 1929 ^{[Note 2]}

• Copestylum rufitarse Thompson, 1976

Subgenus: Volucellosia Curran, 1930d

• Copestylum fornax Townsend, 1895

Subgenus: Tachinosyrphus Hull, 1936b

• Copestylum pseudotachina (Hull, 1936)

Notes

1. ^ originally described as Temnocera megacephala Loew)
2. ^ Type-species, tibialis Shannon preoccupied so renamed rufitarse by Thompson^[3]

References

1. ^ Thompson, F. C. & Vockeroth, J. R. (May 27, 2007). "51. Family Syrphidae". In Neal L. Evenhuis. Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog – Web Version. Bishop Museum. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/syrphidae.html. Retrieved January 24, 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} 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. http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/2795/1/C.%20alberlena.pdf. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} 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. http://www.archive.org/stream/familysyrphidae00thom#page/n1/mode/2up. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
4. ^ Giglio-Tos, Ermanno. "Ditteri del Messico". Torino, Italia: C. Clausen. http://www.archive.org/stream/ditteridelmessic00gigl#page/n5/mode/2up. Retrieved 16 February 2011.