Milesiini Explained

The Milesiini (or Xylotini)^[1] is a large and diverse tribe of hoverflies. They mimic wasps or hornets.

List of genera

• Aneriophora Stuardo & Cortes, 1952^[2]
• Blera Billberg, 1820^[3]
• Brachypalpus Macquart, 1834^[4]
• Caliprobola Rondani, 1845
• Chalcosyrphus Curran, 1925^[5]
• Criorhina Meigen, 1822^[6]
• Cynorhinella Curran, 1922^[7]
• Deineches Walker, 1852^[8]
• Flukea Etcheverry, 1966^[9]
• Hadromyia Williston, 1882^[10]
• Hemixylota Shannon & Aubertin, 1933^[11]
• Lejota Rondani, 1857^[12]
• Lycastris Walker, 1857^[13]
• Macrometopia Philippi, 1865^[14]
• Macrozelima Stackelberg, 1930^[15]
• Malometasternum Shannon, 1927^[16]
• Matsumyia Shiraki, 1949^[17]
• Meropidia Hippa & Thompson, 1983^[18]
• Milesia Latreille, 1804^[19]
• Nepenthosyrphus de Meijere, 1932^[20]
• Odyneromyia Shannon & Aubertin, 1833^[11]
• Orthoprosopa Macquart, 1850^[21]
• Palumbia Rondani, 1865^[22]
• Philippimyia Shannon, 1926^[23]
• Pocota Lepeletier & Serville, 1828^[24]
• Pterallastes Loew, 1863^[25]
• Senogaster Macquart, 1834^[4]
• Somula Macquart, 1847^[26]
• Sphecomyia Latreille, 1829^[27]
• Spilomyia Meigen, 1803^[28]
• Sterphus Philippi, 1865^[14]
• Stilbosoma Philippi, 1865^[14]
• Syritta Lepeletier & Serville, 1828^[24]
• Syrittosyrphus Hull, 1944^[29]
• Takaomyia Herve-Bazin, 1914^[30]
• Temnostoma Lepeletier & Serville, 1828^[24]
• Teuchocnemis Osten Sacken, 1875^[31]
• Tropidia Meigen, 1822^[6]
• Valdiviomyia Vockeroth, 1976^[32]
• Xylota Meigen, 1822^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: Stubbs, Alan E. . Falk, Steven J. . British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide . 2nd . 1983 . . London . 1-899935-03-7 . 325–326.
2. Stuardo. C.. Cortés. N.. 1952. Nuevo nombre para un género de Syrphidae Chileno de R. A. Philippi (Diptera). Revista Chilena de Entomología. 2. 311.
3. Book: Billberg . Gustaf Johan . Enumeratio insectorum in Museo . 1820 . Gust. Joh. Billberg. . Stockholm . 138 . 5 July 2021.
4. Book: Macquart. P. J. M.. Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere . Roret. Paris. 578 + 8 pp., 12 pls . 1834.
5. Curran . Charles Howard . Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico . The Kansas University Science Bulletin. . 1925 . (1924) 15 . 7–216, 12 pls . 23 July 2021.
6. 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.
7. Curran . Charles Howard . New species of Canadian Syrphidae (Diptera). Pt. II . The Canadian Entomologist . 1922 . 54 . 14–19 . 10.4039/Ent5414-1 . 24 July 2021.
8. Book: Walker. Frances. Diptera. Part III, pp. 157-252, pls. 5-6. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. 1852. Van Voorst. London. 1–474.
9. Etcheverry . M. . Flukea vockerothi nuevo genero y nueva especie de Syrphidae Chileno (Diptera) . Publicaciones del Centro de Estudios Entomologicos . 1966 . 8 . 1–22.
10. Williston . S.W. . New or little known genera of North American Syrphidae . The Canadian Entomologist . 1882 . 14 . 4 . 77–80 . 10.4039/Ent1477-4 . 21 July 2021.
11. Shannon . Raymond Corbett . Aubertin . D. . Syrphidae . Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile . 1933 . 3 . 120–170.
12. Book: Rondani . C. . Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol: II. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars prima. Oestridae: Syrpfhidae: Conopidae . 1857 . A. Stocchi . Parmae [= Parma] . 264 pp., 1 pl . 3 August 2021.
13. Book: Walker. Frances. Diptera. Part IV, pp. 253-474, pls. 7-8. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. 1853. Van Voorst. London. 1–474.
14. Philippi . Rodolfo Amando . Aufzahlung der chilenischen Dipteren . Abhandlungen der Zool.-Botan. Gesellschaft in Wien. . 1865 . 15 . 595–782 . 28 April 2019.
15. Stackelberg . A.A. . Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Syrphidae. III . Konowia . 1930 . 9 . 223–234 . 20 July 2021.
16. Shannon . Raymond Corbett . A new genus and five new species of Syrphidae from Australia (Diptera). . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1927 . 29 . 82–87 . 10 August 2021.
17. Shiraki . T. . A new genus of Syrphidae, Matsumyia. . Insecta Matsumurana . 1949 . 17 . 1–3 . 10 August 2021.
18. Hippa . H. . Thompson . F. Christian . Meropidia, a new genus of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from South America . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 1983 . 35 . 109–115 . 13 August 2021.
19. Latreille. P. A.. 1804. Tableau methodique des Insectes.. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 129–295. 24.
20. Meijere . J.C.H. de . Aus Nepenthes-Bechern gezuchtete Syrphiden . Tijdschrift voor Entomologie . 1932 . 75 . 153–162 . 13 August 2021.
21. Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplement . Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts, Lille . 1850 . 1849 . 309–479, pls. 1–14 . 13 August 2021.
22. Rondani . Camillo . Diptera Italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. I. Oestridae-Syrphidae-Conopidae; Fasc. II. Muscidae . Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano . 1865 . 8 . 127–146 . 23 July 2021.
23. Shannon . Raymond Corbett . Review of the American xylotine syrphid-flies . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1926 . 69 . (9)[2635] . 1–52 . 10.5479/si.00963801.69-2637.1 . 19 July 2021.
24. Book: Le Peletier . Amédée Louis Michel, de Saint Fargeau . Serville. ean Guillaume Audinet . In: Latreille, P. A., A. L. M. Lepeletier, J. G. A. Serville, & F. E. Guérin-Méneville. Entomologie, Ou Histoire Naturelle Des Crustacés, Des Arachnides Et Des Insectes. In: Encyclopédie methodique, Histoire naturelle. tome dixième . 1828 . Agasse . Paris . 10 July 2021.
25. Loew. Hermann. Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift . 1863. 7. 275–326. 22 July 2021.
26. Book: Macquart . Pierre-Justin-Marie. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 2.e supplement . 1847 . Roret . Paris . 5–104, 6 pls.
27. Book: Latreille . Pierre André . Suite et findes insectes. In Cuvier, [G.L.C. F.D.], Le regne animal. V. 1829 . Deterville et Crochard . Paris . xxiv + 556.
28. Meigen . J.W. . Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäische n zweiflugligen Insekten . Magazin für Insektenkunde . 1803 . 2 . 259–281. 10 August 2021.
29. Hull . Frank Montgomer . Some syrphid fly genera (Diptera) . Entomological News . 1944 . 55 . 203–205 . 9 August 2021.
30. Rondani . Camillo . Ordinamento sistematico dei generi italiani degli insetti ditteri [part]. . Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna 1844 . 1845 . 2 . 2 . 443–459.
31. Osten Sacken . Karl Robert . A list of the North American Syrphidae . Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. . 1875 . 3 . 38–71 . 22 July 2021.
32. Thompson . F. Christian . Vockeroth . J. Richard . Sedman . Yale S. . Papavero . N. . Family Syrphidae . A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States . 1976 . 46 . 1–195 . 30 July 2021 . Museum of Zoology of the University of Sao Paulo . Sao Paulo.