Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville

Thompson, F. Christian & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2014, Afrotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). A new genus and species from Kenya, with a review of the melanostomine group of genera, Zootaxa 3847 (1), pp. 97-114 : 105-106

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.1.5
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scientific name	Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville
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Genus Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville View in CoL

Cheilosia Panzer, 1809: 14 View in CoL . Type, Syrphus rosarum Fabricius View in CoL by monotypy.

Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828: 513 View in CoL . Type, Syrphus scutatus Meigen View in CoL by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 137).

Platychirus Agassiz, 1846: 295 . Emendation of Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville. View in CoL

Pyrophaena Schiner, 1860: 213 . Type, Syrphus rosarum Fabricius View in CoL by original designation.

Poliphaena Neuhaus, 1886: 105. Misspelling of Pyrophaena Schiner.

Polycheirus Neuhaus, 1886: 99. Misspelling of Platycheirus Meigen.

Polyphaena Neuhaus, 1886: 86. Misspelling of Pyrophaena Schiner.

Platychirus Williston, 1887: 56 . Emendation of Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville. View in CoL

Stenocheilosia Matsumura, 1916: 242 . Type, isshikii Matsumura by original designation.

Carposcalis Enderlein, 1938: 199 . Type, Syrphus stegnus Say View in CoL by original designation.

Pachysphyria Enderlein, 1938: 196 . Type, Scaeva ambigua Fallen by original designation.

Eocheilosia Hull, 1949b: 327 View in CoL . Type, Cheilosia ronana Miller View in CoL by original designation.

Pseudoplatychirus Doesburg, 1955: 48 . Type, peteri van Doesburg by original designation.

All regions except Afrotropics (201 species: Nearctic (79 species, Vockeroth 1990 revision); Palaearctic (116 species); Neotropical (14 species); Oriental (5 species); Australasian (13 species, all New Zealand). The genus is divided into six subgenera ( Pyrophaena , 4 species: Nearctic (3 species), Palaearctic (3 species); Carposcalis, Nearctic (19 species), Palaearctic (1 species [cheilosiaeformis Smit & Barkalov]), Neotropics (14 species); Eocheilosia , (13 species, New Zealand); Pachysphyria , 8 species: Nearctic (4 species), Palaearctic (6 species); Pseudoplatychirus, Palaearctic (2 species); and the typic subgenus for the rest of the species).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Syrphidae