GENUS ERISTALIS Latreille

Tubifera Meigen 1800: 34 . Type-species: Musca tenax Linnaeus, 1758, by designation of Coquillett, 1910: 618. Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1963: 339.

ERISTALIS Latreille 1804: 194 . Type-species: Musca tenax Linnaeus, 1758, by designation of Curtis, 1832: pl. 432. Genus-group name conserved by I.C.Z.N (1993, Opinion 1747).

tenax Linnaeus, 1758: 591 (Musca) . Widespread in Palaearctic Region, temperate areas of Afrotropical and Oriental Regions, introduced into temperate areas of Nearctic, Neotropical and Australian Regions.