Copestylum

Copestylum
C. sexmaculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Tribe:	Volucellini
Genus:	Copestylum Macquart, 1846 [1]
Type species
Copestylum flaviventris Macquart, 1846 [1] [2]
Species
List of Copestylum species

C. haagii

C. vesicularium

A purple bromeliad fly visiting Paris daisy, variety Madeira deep pink. Last scene is repeated at one fourth speed.

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, 1846 ^[1]
• 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, 1892a ^{[Note 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 VolosyrphaShannon, 1929 ^{[Note 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

1. originally described as Temnocera megacephala(Loew)
2. Type-species, tibialisShannon preoccupied so renamed rufitarse by Thompson ^[4]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 .
4. 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.
5. Giglio-Tos, Ermanno. "Ditteri del Messico". Torino, Italia: C. Clausen. Retrieved 16 February 2011.

External links

• Media related to Copestylum at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Copestylum at Wikispecies