Melangyna Explained

Melangyna is a genus of hoverflies.^[1]

Species

Subgenus: Melangyna

• Melangyna abietis (Matsumura, 1918)
• Melangyna arctica (Zetterstedt, 1838)^[2]
• Melangyna arsenjevi (Mutin, 1986)
• Melangyna barbifrons (Fallén, 1817)
• Melangyna basarukini (Mutin, 1998)
• Melangyna coei Nielsen, 1971 ^[2]
• Melangyna compositarum (Verrall, 1873) ^[2]
• Melangyna ericarum (Collin, 1946) ^[2]
• Melangyna evittata (Huo & Ren, 2007)^[3]
• Melangyna fisherii (Walton, 1911)
• Melangyna grandimaculata (Huo & Ren, 2007)^[3]
• Melangyna heilongjiangensis (Huo, 2006)
• Melangyna hwangi (He & Li, 1992)
• Melangyna labiatarum (Verrall, 1901)
• Melangyna lasiophthalma (Zetterstedt, 1843) ^[2]
• Melangyna lucifera Nielsen, 1980 ^[2]
• Melangyna macromaculata (Mutin, 1998)
• Melangyna ochreolinea (Hull, 1944) ^[4]
• Melangyna olsujevi (Violovitsh, 1956) ^[5]
• Melangyna pavlovskyi (Violovitsh, 1956)^[5]
• Melangyna qinlingensis (Huo & Ren, 2007) ^[3]
• Melangyna quadrimaculata Verrall, 1873 ^[2]
• Melangyna sexguttata Meigen, 1838
• Melangyna stackelbergi (Violovitsh, 1980)
• Melangyna subfasciata (Curran, 1925)
• Melangyna tsherepanovi (Violovitsh, 1965)
• Melangyna umbellatarum (Fabricius, 1794) ^[2]
• Melangyna xiaowutaiensis (Huo & Ren, 2007)^[3]

Subgenus: Austrosyrphus^[6]

• Melangyna ambustus Walker, 1852
• Melangyna collatus Walker, 1852
• Melangyna damastor Walker, 1849
• Melangyna jacksoni Bigot, 1884
• Melangyna novaezealandiae (Macquart, 1855)
• Melangyna sellenyi Schiner, 1868
• Melangyna viridiceps (Macquart, 1847)

Subgenus: Melanosyrphus^[6]

• Melangyna dichoptica Vockeroth, 1969

Notes and References

1. Book: Stubbs, Alan E. . Falk, Steven J. . amp . 1983 . British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. 253, xvpp . British Entomological & Natural History Society.
2. Speight . M.C.D. . 2011 . Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae . 65 . 285pp .
3. Huo . K.K. . 2007 . Two new species of the genus Melangyna Verral (Diptera, Syrphidae) from China, with a key to known species of China. . Acta Zootaxonomica .
4. Hull . Studies on syrphid flies in the Museum of Comparative Zoology . Psyche: A Journal of Entomology . 51 . 22–45 .
5. Violovitsh . N.A . 1956 . New species of the genus Syrphus Fabr. (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Far East . Zool. Zh. .
6. Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. (2008), First phylogeny of predatory flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification. Cladistics, 24: 543–562.