Megasyrphus

Megasyrphus
Megasyrphus erratica male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Tribe:	Syrphini
Genus:	Megasyrphus Dusek & Láska, 1967

Megasyrphus is a genus of hoverflies in the subfamily Syrphinae. ^{[1] [2]} It was formally a subgenus of Eriozona . ^[3]

Species

• Megasyrphus alashayicus (Peck, 1974)
• Megasyrphus catalina (Curran, 1830) ^[4]
• Megasyrphus chinensis (Ho, 1987)
• Megasyrphus erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Megasyrphus laxus (Osten Sacken, 1875) ^[5]

References

1. Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 253, xvpp.
2. Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN   90-5011-199-8.
3. Chandler, Peter J. (December 2011). "Corrections and changes to the Diptera Checklist". Dipterists Digest (Print). Second Series. 18 (2). Dipterists Forum: 203–204. ISSN   0953-7260.
4. Curran, C.H. (1930). "New Diptera from North and Central America" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (415): 16pp.
5. Osten Sacken, Karl Robert (1875). "A list of the North American Syrphidae". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 3: 38–71. Retrieved 22 July 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .