Myolepta Explained

Myolepta is a cosmopolitan genus of hoverflies^{[1] [2] [3]} most closely related to the genus Lepidomyia^[4]

Species

Subgenus: Myolepta

• Myolepta auricaudata (Williston, 1891)
• Myolepta aurinota (Hine, 1903)
• Myolepta camillae Weems, 1956
• Myolepta difformis (Strobl, 1909)
• Myolepta dolorosa (Hull, 1941)^[5]
• Myolepta dubia (Fabricius, 1805)
• Myolepta greeni Hull, 1941i^[5]
• Myolepta haemorrhoidalis (Philippi, 1865)^[5]
• Myolepta luctuosa (Bigot, 1857a)^[5]
• Myolepta lunulata Bigot, 1884
• Myolepta luteola (Gmelin, 1790)^[6]
• Myolepta nausicaa (Hull, 1937a)^[5]
• Myolepta nigra (Loew, 1972)
• Myolepta nigritarsis Coe, 1957
• Myolepta obscura (Becher, 1882)
• Myolepta potens (Harris, 1776)
• Myolepta strigilata (Loew, 1872)
• Myolepta vara (Panzer, 1798)
• Myolepta varipes (Loew, 1869)

Subgenus: Protolepidostola^[7]

• Myolepta braziliana (Shannon, 1927a)^[5]
• Myolepta evansi Thompson, 1968^[5]
• Myolepta marinonii (Marinoni, 2004)^[8]
• Myolepta minuta Fluke, 1956^[5]
• Myolepta problematica Thompson, 1968^[5]
• Myolepta scintillans (Hull, 1946b)^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Stubbs, Alan E. . Falk, Steven J . British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide . 2nd . 1983 . . London . 1-899935-03-7 . 253, xvpp .
2. Book: Ball, S.G. . Morris, R.K.A. . Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) . 2000 . Biological Record Centre . Monks Wood, UK . 1-870393-54-6 . 167 pages .
3. Book: Van Veen, M.P. . Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae . Hardback . 2004 . KNNV Publishing . Utrecht . 90-5011-199-8 . 254 .
4. Reemer, M. . M. Hauser . M.C.D. Speight . The genus Myolepta Newman in the West-Palaearctic region (Diptera, Syrphidae) . . 11 . 2005 . 553–580 .
5. Web site: F. C. . Thompson . Vockeroth, J. R. . Sedman, Y. S. . A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae . Museu de Zoologia . São Paulo, Brasil . 2 February 2011.
6. 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 . 28 July 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm . 20 October 2008 .
7. Thompson, C. F. (1968). The placement of the subgenus Protolepidostola Hull (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 41, 270-277
8. Marinoni . Luciane . Thompson, F. Christian . 2003 . Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species . Studia dipterologica . 10 . 2 . 565–578 . 0945-3954 .