Melanostoma

Melanostoma
Melanostoma scalare female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Syrphinae
Tribe:	Melanostomini
Genus:	Melanostoma Schiner, 1860
Type species
Musca millina [1] Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [2]
AfrostomaSkevington, Thompson & Vockeroth, 2014 [3]

Melanostoma sp., oviposition

Melanostoma is a large genus of hoverflies. ^[4] Little is known of their biology, but they are suspected to be general predators of small insects in leaf litter. ^{[5] [6]}

Species

Source: ^[7]

• M. abdominale Shiraki, 1930
• M. aenoscutum Hull, 1964 ^[1]
• M. algens Curran, 1931
• M. alpinum Szilády, 1942
• M. alticola Speiser, 1910 ^[1]
• M. annulipes Macquart, 1842 ^[1]
• M. apicale Bigot, 1884
• M. atrum Sack, 1932
• M. aurantiaca Becker, 1921
• M. babyssa (Walker, 1849)
• M. babyssola Speiser, 1924 ^[1]
• M. bergmani Doesburg, 1966
• M. bicruciatum (Bigot, 1884) ^[8]
• M. bituberculatum Loew, 1858 ^[1]
• M. boreomontanum Mutin, 1986
• M. diffusum Hull, 1941 ^[1]
• M. dubium (Zetterstedt, 1838)
• M. elongatum Matsumura, 1919
• M. eversmanni Enderlein, 1938
• M. fasciatum (Macquart, 1850)
• M. flavipenne Matsumura, 1919
• M. flavipleurum Hull, 1964 ^[1]
• M. floripeta Speiser, 1910 ^[1]
• M. fumivenosum Doesburg, 1966
• M. gedehense Meijere, 1914
• M. gymnocera Bigot, 1891 ^[1]
• M. incisum Matsumura, 1916
• M. incompletum Becker, 1908 - Canarian endemic species
• M. incurvum Dirickx, 2001
• M. infuscatum Becker, 1909 ^[1]
• M. keiseri Dirickx, 2001
• M. matilei Dirickx, 2001
• M. meijerei Goot, 1964
• M. mellinum (Linnaeus, 1758)
• M. motodomariense Matsumura, 1919
• M. normale Curran, 1931
• M. ochraceum Dirickx, 2001
• M. orientale Wiedemann, 1824
• M. otaniense Matsumura, 1919
• M. pedius Walker, 1852
• M. perinetense Dirickx, 2001
• M. pumicatum (Meigen, 1838)
• M. pyrophaenoides Speiser, 1910 ^[1]
• M. quadrifasciatum Curran, 1928
• M. quadripunctatum (Skevington & Thompson, 2014) ^{[2] [3]}
• M. satyriphilum Hull, 1941 ^[1]
• M. scalare (Fabricius, 1794) ^[1]
• M. simplex Doesburg, 1955
• M. subbituberculatum Kassebeer, 2000
• M. sulphuripes Hull, 1964 ^[1]
• M. sylvarum Hull, 1941 ^[1]
• M. teizonis Matsumura, 1919
• M. tenuis Matsumura, 1919
• M. tiantaiensis Huo & Zheng, 2003
• M. transversum Shiraki & Edashige, 1953
• M. trochanteratum Hull, 1964 ^[1]
• M. tumescens Szilády, 1940
• M. univittatum Wiedemann, 1824
• M. violaceum Hull, 1964 ^[1]
• M. wollastoni Wakeham-Dawson, Aguiar, Smit, McCullough & Wyatt, 2004

References

1. Smith, Kenneth G.V.; Vockeroth, J.R. (1980). Crosskey, R.W. (ed.). Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. London: British museum (Natural History). pp. 1–1436. ISBN   0565-00821-8.
2. Mengual, Ximo (2020). "Phylogenetic relationships of the bacchine flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on molecular characters, with a description of a new species of Melanostoma (Schiner, 1860)". Contributions to Zoology. 89 (2): 210–244. doi: 10.1163/18759866-20191410 . ISSN   1383-4517.
3. Thompson, F. Christian; Skevington, Jeffrey H. (6 August 2014). "Afrotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). A new genus and species from Kenya, with a review of the melanostomine group of genera". Zootaxa . 3847 (1): 97–114. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.1.5 . ISSN   1175-5326.
4. Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN   1-899935-03-7.
5. Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN   1-870393-54-6.
6. 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.
7. "Melanostoma". Encyclopedia of Life, available from http://eol.org/pages/25610/entries/33710029/overview. Accessed on 25 January 2012
8. Bigot, Jacques Marie François (1884). "Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 22e partie, XXXII: Syrphidi (2e partie). espèces nouvelles, No 1er". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 3 (6): 79. Retrieved 11 January 2024.