Lejota Explained

Lejota is a genus of syrphid flies in the family Syrphidae.^[1]

Species

• L. aerea (Loew, 1872)^[2]
• L. cyanea (Smith, 1912)^[3]
• L. femoralis (Shiraki, 1968)^[4]
• L. femorata Violovitsh, 1980^[5]
• L. korsakovi (Stackelberg, 1952)^[6]
• L. ruficornis (Wahlberg, 1843)
• L. simplex (Shiraki, 1968)^[4]
• L. villosa Violovitsh, 1982^[7]

Notes and References

1. 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 .
2. Loew . Hermann . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decima . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1872 . 16 . 49-124 . 25 July 2021.
3. Smith . H.E. . A contribution on North American dipterology . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1912 . 14 . 118-127 . 8 August 2021.
4. Book: Shiraki . T. . Syrphidae (Insecta: Diptera). Fauna Japonica . 1968 . Biogeographical Society of Japan . Japan . Vol. II, 243 pp., XL pls.; Vol. III, 272 pp., XLVII pls..
5. Violovitsh . N.A. . Survey of Palaearctic species of the genus Lejota Rondani, 1857 (Diptera, Syrphidae). Izv. Sib. Otdel. Akad. Nauk SSSR . Biol. Nauk . 1980 . 1 . 44-47 . Russian.
6. Stackelberg . A.A. . Novye Syrphidae (Diptera) palearkticheskoy fauny. . Trudy Zoologičeskogo instituta Leningrad . 1952 . 12 . 350-400.
7. Violovitsh . N.A. . New species of Syrphids from the Palaearctic fauna (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri . 1982 . 16 . 54-64 . Russian.