Myolepta

Myolepta
Myolepta varipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Eristalinae
Tribe:	Brachyopini
Genus:	Myolepta Newman, 1838
Synonyms
Leptomyia Walker, 1851 Myiolepta Newman, 1841

Myolepta is a cosmopolitan genus of hoverflies ^{[1] [2] [3]} most closely related to the genus Lepidomyia ^[4]

Species

Subgenus:Myolepta

• Myolepta auricaudata (Williston, 1891)
• Myolepta aurinota (Hine, 1903)
• Myolepta camillae Weems, 1956
• Myolepta difformis (Strobl, 1909)
• Myolepta dolorosa (Hull, 1941) ^[5]
• Myolepta dubia (Fabricius, 1805)
• Myolepta greeni Hull, 1941i ^[5]
• Myolepta haemorrhoidalis (Philippi, 1865) ^[5]
• Myolepta luctuosa (Bigot, 1857a) ^[5]
• Myolepta lunulata Bigot, 1884
• Myolepta luteola (Gmelin, 1790) ^[6]
• Myolepta nausicaa (Hull, 1937a) ^[5]
• Myolepta nigra (Loew, 1972)
• Myolepta nigritarsis Coe, 1957
• Myolepta obscura (Becher, 1882)
• Myolepta potens (Harris, 1776)
• Myolepta strigilata (Loew, 1872)
• Myolepta vara (Panzer, 1798)
• Myolepta varipes (Loew, 1869)

Subgenus:Protolepidostola ^[7]

• Myolepta braziliana (Shannon, 1927a) ^[5]
• Myolepta evansi Thompson, 1968 ^[5]
• Myolepta marinonii (Marinoni, 2004) ^[8]
• Myolepta minuta Fluke, 1956 ^[5]
• Myolepta problematica Thompson, 1968 ^[5]
• Myolepta scintillans (Hull, 1946b) ^[5]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Reemer, M.; M. Hauser; M.C.D. Speight (2005). "The genus Myolepta Newman in the West-Palaearctic region (Diptera, Syrphidae)" (PDF). Studia Dipterologica . 11: 553–580.
5. 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.
6. Barkalov, A.V. "Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". Novosibirsk, Russia: the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
7. Thompson, C. F. (1968). The placement of the subgenus Protolepidostola Hull (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 41, 270-277
8. Marinoni, Luciane; Thompson, F. Christian (2003). "Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species". Studia dipterologica. 10 (2): 565–578. ISSN   0945-3954.