Mallota Explained

Mallota is a widely distributed Holarctic genus of hoverfly (a member of the fly family Syrphidae), well known for their bee-like appearance.

Species

• Mallota abdominalis Sack, 1927
• Mallota aenigma Bezzi, 1912^[1]
• Mallota albipilis Snow, 1895^[2]
• M. albipes Snow, 1895
• M. bautias (Walker, 1849)
• M. bequaerti Hull, 1956
• Mallota bicolor Sack, 1910
• M. cimbiciformis (Fallén, 1817)
• Mallota cingulata Sack, 1927
• Mallota curvigaster (Macquart, 1842)^{[3] [4]}
• M. dasyops (Wiedemann, 1819)
• M. dusmeti Andreu, 1925
• M. extrema (Loew, 1858)
• M. fuciformis (Fabricius, 1794)
• M. hirsuta Hull, 1941
• Mallota illinoensis _{Robertson, 1901}^[5]
• Mallota inopinata Violovich, 1975^[6]
• Mallota inopinata Violovich, 1975^[6]
• M. megilliformis (Fallén, 1817)
• M. meromacrimima Hull, 1941
• Mallota mississipensis Hull, 1946^[7]
• Mallota munda Violovich, 1955^[8]
• Mallota orientalis Wiedemann, 1824^[9]
• M. posticata (Fabricius, 1805)
• Mallota rossica Portschinsky, 1877^[10]
• Mallota rubripes Matsumura, 1916
• M. sackeni Williston, 1882
• Mallota shatalkini Mutin, 1999^[11]
• Mallota spinosa _{Hirooka & Maruyama, 2015}^[12]
• Mallota thompsoni Hirooka & Maruyama, 2015^[12]
• M. tricolor Loew, 1871
• Mallota vilis Wiedemann, 1830 ("Non-European Two-Winged Insects as a Continuation of Meigen's Work. Second Part.") ^[13]
• Mallota viridiflavescentis Huo & Ren, 2006^[14]

References

• Stubbs, Alan E. and Steven J. Falk (1983), British Hoverflies, an illustrated identification guide, British Entomological and Natural History Society.

Notes and References

1. Bezzi . M. . 1912 . Ditteri raccolti da Leonardo Fea durante il suo viaggio nell' Africa occidentale. Parte 1a: Syrphidae . Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova . 45 . 400–453 .
2. Snow . W.A. . Diptera of Colorado and New Mexico. Syrphidae . The Kansas University Quarterly . 1895 . 3 . 225–247 . 29 September 2021.
3. Web site: Mallota curvigaster information . Global Biodiversity Information Facility . 2023-03-15.
4. Book: Macquart, P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie . Roret . Paris . 5–140 . 1842-12-12.
5. Robertson. Charles. Some New Diptera. The Canadian Entomologist. 1901. 33. 10. 285–286. 10.4039/Ent33284-10.
6. Violovitsh . N. A. . 1975 . Some new species of hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the fauna of the USSR . Nov. Mal. Vidy Faun. Sibir. . 5 . 92–97.
7. Hull . F.M. . 1946 . New syrphid flies from Mississippi . Entomological News . 56 . 10 . 268–272 .
8. Violovitsh . N. A. . 1955 . New and little-known hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Kunashir Island . Ent. Obozr. . Russian . 34 . 1 . 47–54.
9. Book: Wiedemann, C.R.W. . 1824 . Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat . Regio typographeo scholarum . 60 . 1 .
10. Portschinsky . J.A. . 1877 . [Contribution to history of the fauna of Russia and the Caucasus. BumbleBee flies.] . Trudy russk. Ent. Obshch. . 10 . 102–198 . Russian .
11. Book: Mutin . V.A. . Barkalov . A.V. . Key to the Insects of Russian Far East. Vol. 6. Diptera and Siphonaptera. Part 1 . Lehr, P. A. . Dal'nauka, Vladivostok . 1999 . 342–500 .
12. Hirooka . Takuto . Maruyama . Munetoshi . Thompson . F. C. . Revision of the flower fly genus Mallota Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Japan . Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology . 21 . 2 . 241–258 . 2015.
13. Book: Wiedemann, C.R.W. . Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Zweiter Theil. . Schulz . Hamm . xii+684. 1830-09-01 .
14. Huo . K.K. . Ren . G.D. . Taxonomic studies on Milesiinae from the Museum of Hebei University (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Acta Zoologica Sinica . 2006.