Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville

Montoya, Augusto L., 2016, FAMILY SYRPHIDAE, Zootaxa 4122 (1), pp. 457-537 : 462

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Genus Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville View in CoL

Cheilosia Panzer, 1809:14 View in CoL . Type species, Syrphus rosarum Fabricius, 1787 View in CoL (mon.). To prevent confusion the ICZN should be asked to suppress Cheilosia Panzer View in CoL to preserve existing usage of Cheilosia Meigen, 1822 View in CoL , and to place Platycheirus View in CoL on the Official List of Generic Names.

Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828:513 View in CoL . Type species, Syrphus scutatus Meigen, 1822 View in CoL (subs. des, Westwood, 1840:137). Refs.: Fluke, 1943 (key); Andersson, 1970:236 –240 (Taxonomic notes); Vockeroth, 1990:660 (revisio of Neartical spp.); Thompson, 1972a:77 –84 (desc. notes). Thompson, 1999a:325 (key); Marinoni et al. 2007:149, 150 (desc, key, illustrations); Thompson & Skevington, 2014 (key and review of melanostomine genera groups).

Platychirus Agassiz, 1846:295 , emend.

Pyrophaena Schiner, 1860:21 View in CoL 3. Type species, Syrphus rosarum Fabricius, 1787 View in CoL (orig. des.).

Pachysphyria Enderlein, 1938:196 . Type species, Scaeva ambigua Fallen, 1817 (orig. des.).

Carposcalis Enderlein, 1938:199 . Type species, Syrphus stegnus Say, 1829 View in CoL (orig. des.).