Spilomyia Explained

Spilomyia is a genus of hoverflies. Many species in the genus show Batesian mimicry of wasp models, including black and yellow patterns and modified antenna shape.^[1]

Species

• Spilomyia abdominalis Shiraki, 1968^[2]
• Spilomyia alcimus (Walker, 1849)^[3]
• Spilomyia annulata Sack, 1910^[4]
• Spilomyia bidentata Huo, 2013^[5]
• Spilomyia boschmai Lucas, 1964^[6]
• Spilomyia chinensis Hull, 1950^[7]
• Spilomyia citima Vockeroth, 1958^[8]
• Spilomyia crandalli Curran, 1951^[9]
• Spilomyia curvimaculata Cheng, 2012^[10]
• Spilomyia digitata (Rondani, 1865)^[11]
• Spilomyia diophthalma (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Spilomyia ephippium (Osten Sacken, 1875)^[12]
• Spilomyia foxleei Vockeroth, 1958^[8]
• Spilomyia fusca Loew, 1864^[13]
• Spilomyia gigantea Shiraki, 1968^[2]
• Spilomyia graciosa Violovitsh, 1985^[14]
• Spilomyia gratiosa Wulp, 1888^[15]
• Spilomyia gussakovskii Stackelberg, 1958^[16]
• Spilomyia interrupta Williston, 1882^[17]
• Spilomyia kahli Snow, 1895^[18]
• Spilomyia liturata Williston, 1887^[19]
• Spilomyia longicornis Loew, 1872^[20]
• Spilomyia manicata (Rondani, 1865)^[11]
• Spilomyia maroccana Kuznetzov, 1997^[21]
• Spilomyia matsumurai Shiraki, 1968^[2]
• Spilomyia maxima Sack, 1910^[4]
• Spilomyia obscura Coquillett, 1902^[22]
• Spilomyia panfilovi Zimina, 1952^[23]
• Spilomyia permagna Stackelberg, 1958^[16]
• Spilomyia pleuralis Williston, 1887^[19]
• Spilomyia saltuum (Fabricius, 1794)^[24]
• Spilomyia sayi (Goot, 1964)^[25]
• Spilomyia scutimaculata Huo & Ren, 2006^[26]
• Spilomyia sulphurea Sack, 1910^[4]
• Spilomyia suzukii Matsumura, 1916^[27]
• Spilomyia transcaucasica Kuznetzov, 1997^[21]
• Spilomyia triangulata van Steenis, 2000^[28]
• Spilomyia turkmenorum Kuznetzov, 1997^[21]
• Spilomyia verae Kuznetzov, 1997^[21]
• Spilomyia wirthi Thompson, 1996^[29]

External links

• European list
• Bugguide.net. Species Spilomyia sayi

Notes and References

1. Waldbauer, GB. Mimicry of Hymenopteran Antennae by Syrphidae.. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology . 77. 45–49. 1970. 10.1155/1970/28967. free.
2. Book: Shiraki . T. . Syrphidae (Insecta: Diptera). Fauna Japonica . 1968 . Biogeographical Society of Japan . Japan . Vol. II, 243 pp., XL pls.; Vol. III, 272 pp., XLVII pls.
3. 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.
4. Sack . P. . Neue und wenig bekannte Syrphiden des palaearktischen Faunen-gebietes . Beil. Programm Wohler-Realgymn. Frankfurt A. M. . 1910 . 1910 . 1–42 . German.
5. Huo . K.K. . Taxonomic studies on the genus Spilomyia (Meigen, 1803) from China, with description of a new species (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Acta Zootaxon. Sinica . 2013 . 38 . 167–170.
6. Lucas . J.A.W. . A new species of Spilomyia from Sicily (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Zoologische Mededelingen . 1964 . 39 . 22 . 206–208 . 26 August 2021.
7. Hull . Frank Montgomery. Studies upon syrphid flies in the British Museum (Natural History). . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 1950 . 3 . 31. 603–624. 10.1080/00222935008654083.
8. Vockeroth . J.R. . Two new Nearctic species of Spilomyia (Diptera: Syrphilidae), with a note on the taxonomic value of wing microtrichia inn the Syrphidae . The Canadian Entomologist . 1958 . 90 . 5 . 284–291. 10.4039/Ent90284-5 .
9. Curran . Charles Howard . Synopsis of the North American species of Spilomyia (Syrphidae, Diptera) . American Museum Novitates . 1951 . 1492 . 11 . 27 August 2021.
10. Huang . C. . Cheng . X. . Diptera. Syrphidae . Fauna Sinica. Insecta. . 2012 . 50 . xxiv + 852 pp., 8 color pls.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Loew . H. . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria quinta. . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1864 . 8 . 49–104 . 10.1002/mmnd.18640080105 . 11 July 2021.
14. Violovitsh . N.A. . New flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of the Palaearctic fauna . Nov. Mal. Vidy Faun. Sibir . 1985 . 18 . 80–96 . Russian.
15. Wulp . F.M. van der . Nieuwe Argentijnsche Diptera van wijien Prof. H. Veyenbergh. . Tijdschrift voor Entomologie . 1888 . 31 . 359–376 . 27 August 2021.
16. Stackelberg . A.A. . The palaeartic species of the genus Spilomyia Mg. (Diptera, Syrphidae) . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 1958 . 37 . 759–768 . Russian.
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. Snow . W.A. . Diptera of Colorado and New Mexico. Syrphidae . The Kansas University Quarterly . 1895 . 3 . 225–247 . 29 September 2021.
19. Williston. S. W.. Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae.. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 1887. 31. xxx + 335. 1 July 2015.
20. Loew . Hermann . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decima . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1872 . 16 . 49–124 . 10.1002/mmnd.18720160110 . 25 July 2021.
21. Kuznetzov . S.Y. . Five new Palaearctic Syrphidae . Dipterological Research . 1997 . 5 . 231–238.
22. Coquillett . D.W. . New cyclorhaphous Diptera from Mexico and New Mexico . The Canadian Entomologist . 1902 . 34 . 8 . 195–202 . 10.4039/Ent34195-8 . 28 September 2021.
23. Zimina . L.V. . A new species of Spilomyia (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Far East . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 1952 . 32 . 329–331.
24. Book: Fabricius . Johan Christian . Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Tome IV . 1794 . 4 . C.G. Proft . Hafniae [=Copenhagen] . [6] + 472 + [5] pp . 20 May 2021.
25. Goot . V.S. van der . Fluke's catalogue of Neotropical Syrphidae (Insects, Diptera), a critical study with an appendix on new names in Syrphidae . Beaufortia . 1964 . 10 . 212–221 . 20 September 2021.
26. Huo . K.K. . Ren . G.D. . A new species and a new record species of genus Spilomyia (Diptera: Syrphidae) from China . Entomotaxonomia . 2006 . 28 . 118–122.
27. Book: Matsumura. Shonen. Thousand insects of Japan. Additamenta Vol. 2 (Diptera). 1916. Keisei-sha. Tokyo. 185–474 + [4], pls. 16–25.
28. Steenis . J. van . The West-Palaearctic species of Spilomyia Meigen . Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft . 2000 . 73 . 143–168 . 28 September 2021.
29. Thompson . F. Christian. . Spilomyia flower flies of the New World (Diptera) . Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1997 . 18 (1996) . 261–272 . 29 September 2021.