Melangyna cincta

Melangyna cincta
Melangyna cincta
Melangyna cincta (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Melangyna
Species: M. cincta
Binomial name
Melangyna cincta
(Fallén), 1817

Melangyna cincta is a European species of hoverfly. This species has a somewhat muddled taxonomic history. Stubbs & Falk treat it as a member of the genus Melangyna. Other sources place it in Meligramma (as either a separate genus or a subgenus of Melangyna) or Fagisyrphus.[1]

References

  1. ^ Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society.