Brachypalpus Explained

Brachypalpus is a genus of hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.^{[1] [2] [3]} The head is triangular and produced well forwards and somewhat downwards. The thorax and abdomen with pile often rather long. The hind femur is swollen and with an obtuse spur apically and ventrally. The hind trochanters of male is spurred.
The larvae are of the rat-tailed type feeding on decaying sap under tree bark. Larvae live in decaying trees and logs. Larva and pupa have been described by Malloch.^[4]

Species

• Brachypalpus alopex (Osten Sacken, 1877)^[5]
• Brachypalpus amithaon Walker, 1849^[6]
• Brachypalpus chrysites Egger, 1859^[7]
• Brachypalpus cyanella Osten Sacken, 1877^[5]
• Brachypalpus cyanogaster Loew, 1872^[8]
• Brachypalpus dives (Brunetti, 1908)^[9]
• Brachypalpus femoratus (Williston, 1882)^[10]
• Brachypalpus longifacies Mutin & Ichige, 2019^[11]
• Brachypalpus nigrifacies Stackelberg, 1965^[12]
• Brachypalpus nipponicus Shiraki, 1952^{[13] [14]}
• Brachypalpus oarus (Walker, 1849)^[6]
• Brachypalpus olivaceus Meigen, 1822^[15]
• Brachypalpus valgus (Panzer, 1798)^[16]
• Brachypalpus zugmayeriae Mik, 1887^[17]

Notes and References

1. Book: Van Veen, M.P. . Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae . Hardback . 2004 . KNNV Publishing . Utrecht . 90-5011-199-8 . 254 .
2. Book: Stubbs, Alan E. . Falk, Steven J. . amp . 1983 . British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide . British Entomological & Natural History Society. 253, xvpp.
3. Book: Skevington . J.H. . Locke . M.M. . Young . A.D. . Moran . K. . Crins . W.J. . Marshall . S.A . Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America . 2019 . Princeton University Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 9780691189406 . 512 . First. Princeton Field Guides .
4. Rotheray . Graham . 1998 . Phylogeny of Palaearctic Syrphidae (Diptera): evidence from larval stages . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 127 . 1–112 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb01305.x .
5. Osten Sacken. Carl Robert. 1877. Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from California. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 3. 189–354. 10.5962/bhl.title.57939.
6. Book: Walker. F.. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. 1849. British Museum (Natural History). London. 485–687.
7. Egger . Johann . Dipterologische Beitrage . Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. . 1859 . 9 . 387–407 . 25 July 2021.
8. Loew . Hermann . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decima . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1872 . 16 . 49–124 . 10.1002/mmnd.18720160110 . 25 July 2021.
9. Brunetti . Enrico Adelelmo . IX.—Notes on Oriental Syrphidae with descriptions of new species. Part 1 . Records of the Indian Museum . 1908 . 2 . 49–96 . 25 July 2021.
10. Williston . Samuel Wendell . Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae . Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. . 1882 . 20 . 112 . 299–332 . 23 July 2021.
11. Mutin . V.A. . Ichige . K. . An unusual new species of the genus Brachypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) from eastern Asia . Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology . 2018 . 21 . 3 . 1064–1107. 10.1016/j.aspen.2018.07.022 . 91819235 .
12. Stackelberg . A.A. . New data on the taxonomy of palaearctic hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 1965 . 44 . 907–926 . 25 July 2021.
13. Shiraki . T. . Studies on the Syrphidae. 2. Some new species from Japan with an interesting Trypetidae . Mushi . 1952 . 23 . 1–15.
14. Web site: A.V . Barkalov . Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum . the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Novosibirsk, Russia . 17 August 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm . 20 October 2008.
15. Book: Meigen . Johann Wilhelm . Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten . 1822 . Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann . Hamm . x, 416, pls. 22–32 . 14 April 2019.
16. Book: Panzer . G.W.F. . Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia oder Devtschlands Insecten. H. 54 . 1797 . Felsecker . Nurnberg [= Nuremberg] . 24 pp., 24 pls.
17. Mik . Josef . Diagnosen neuer Dipteren . Wiener Entomologische Zeitung . 1887 . 6 . 161–164 . 10.5962/bhl.part.17747 . 25 July 2021. free .