Neoascia Explained

Neoascia is a genus of small black and yellow or mostly black flies with a narrow abdomen near the thorax. They occur mainly in damp places among low herbage. The larva of Neosascia are flattened without oral hooks and a have a short posterior spiracular process or "tail" rat-tailed that is saprophagous. In 1925 Curran reviewed the genus Neoascia . In this work a key is provided and ten species are described including four new species some of which have later been determined to be synonyms. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Species

• N. amurensis Mutin, 1993^[5]
• N. anassa Reemer & Hippa, 2005^[6]
• N. bipunctata (Matsumura, 1919)
• N. clausseni Hauser & Kassebeer, 1998^{[7] [8]}
• N. confusa Mutin, 1993^[5]
• N. distincta Williston, 1887
• N. globosa (Walker, 1849)^[9]
• N. guttata Skevington & Moran, 2019^[10]
• N. inexpectata Hauser, 1998^[11]
• N. nana Reemer & Hippa, 2005^[6]
• N. subannexa Claussen & Hayat, 1997^[12]
• N. willistoni Thompson, 1986

Subgenus: Neoascia

• N. annexa (Müller, 1776)^[13]
• N. balearensis Kassebeer, 2002^[14]
• N. longiscutata (Shiraki, 1930)^{[15] [16]}
• N. metallica (Williston, 1882)^[17]
• N. monticola Stackelberg, 1960^[18]
• N. pavlovskii Stackelberg, 1955^{[19] [16]}
• N. podagrica (Fabricius, 1775)
• N. sphaerophoria Curran, 1925^[20]
• N. tenur (Harris, 1780)^[21]

Subgenus: Neoasciella

• N. carinicauda Stackelberg, 1955^[19]
• N. geniculata (Meigen, 1822)
• N. interrupta (Meigen, 1822)
• N. meticulosa (Scopoli, 1763)^[22]
• N. obliqua Coe, 1940^[23]
• N. subchalybea Curran, 1925^[20]
• N. tuberculifera Violovitsh, 1957^{[24] [16]}
• N. unifasciata (Strobl, 1898)^[25]

Notes and References

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2. Curran . C.H. . 1925 . Revision of the genus Neoascia . Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. . 27 . 51–62 . ^[1]
3. Book: Ball, S.G. . Morris, R.K.A. . Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) . 2000 . Biological Record Centre . Monks Wood, UK . 978-1-870393-54-6 . 167 pages .
4. Book: Van Veen, M.P. . Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae . Hardback . 2004 . KNNV Publishing . Utrecht . 978-90-5011-199-7 . 254 .
5. Mutin . V.A. . New and little known species of flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Soviet Far East and Siberia . Dalnevostochnoe Otdelenie, Vladivostok. . 1993 . 109–115.
6. Reemer . M. . Hippa . H. . The first two Oriental species of Neoascia Williston (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Tijdschrift voor Entomologie . 2005 . 148 . 2 . 335–340. 10.1163/22119434-900000178 .
7. Hauser . M. . Kassebeer . C.F. . Neoascia clausseni spec. nov aus Nordafrika (Diptera, Syrphidae). Beiträge zur Schwebfliegenfauna Marokkos VI . Dipteron . 1998 . 1 . 37–44.
8. Djellab . Sihem . Van Eck . A . Samraoui . Boudjéma . A survey of the hoverflies of northeastern Algeria (Diptera: Syrphidae) . Egyptian Journal of Biology . 2013 . 15 . 1 . 2 November 2021.
9. Book: Walker. F.. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. 1849. British Museum (Natural History). London. 485–687.
10. Skevington . J.H. . Young . A.D. . Locke . M.M. . Moran . K.M. . New Syrphidae (Diptera) of north-eastern North America . Biodiversity Data Journal . 2019 . 7 . e36673 . 10.3897/BDJ.7.e36673 . 31543695 . 6736894 . free .
11. Hauser . Martin . Zur Schwebfliegenfauna (Diptera, Syrphidae) Aserbaidschans, mit der Beschreibung von zwei neuen Arten . Volucella . 1998 . 3 . 15–26.
12. Claussen . C. . Hayat . R. . A new species of the genus Neoascia Williston, 1886 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from north-east Turkey . Studia Dipterologica . 1997 . 4 . 215–218 . 3 November 2021.
13. Book: Müller . O.F. . Zoologiae Danicae prodromus . 1776 . Hallageriis . Havniae [=Copenhagen] . xxxii + 274 [+8] pp . 30 October 2021.
14. Kassebeer . Christian F. . Zur Schwebfliegenfauna (Diptera, Syrphidae) der Balearen . Dipteron . 2002 . 4 . 131–156 . 2 November 2021.
15. Shiraki . T. . 1930 . Die Syrphiden des japanischen Kaiserreichs, mit Berucksichtigung benachbarter Gebiete. Mem. Fac. Agric. Taihoku Imp. Univ. . 1 . xx + 446 pp .
16. 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 . October 20, 2008.
17. Williston . Samuel Wendell . Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae . Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. . 1882 . 20 . 112 . 299–332 . 23 July 2021.
18. Stackelberg . A.A. . New Syrphidae (Diptera) from the Caucasus . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 1960 . 39 . 438–449 . Russian.
19. Stackelberg . A.A. . Palearkticheskie vidy roda Neoascia Will. (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Trudy Zool. Inst., Leningrad. . 1955 . 21 . 342–352 . Russian.
20. Curran . C.H. . Revision of the genus Neoascia Williston (Diptera: Syrphidae) . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1925 . 27 . 51–62.
21. Book: Harris . M. . An exposition of English insects . Decads III, IV. 1780 . Robson Co. . London . 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21–30, 31–40 . 16 July 2021.
22. Book: Scopoli . I.A. . Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana . 1763 . Trattner . Vindobonae [= Vienna] . [30] + 420 pp . 23 June 2021.
23. Coe . R.L. . A new British species of the genus Neoascia Williston (Dipt., Syrphidae) . Entomologist's Monthly Magazine . 1940 . 76 . 18–19.
24. Violovitsh . N.A. . New palaearctic Syrphidae (Diptera) from the Far Eastern Territory of the USSR . Entomologicheskoe Obozreni . 1957 . 36 . 748–755 . Russian.
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