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Platycheirus, Lepeletier & Serville

Thompson, Christian, 2008, A conspectus of New Zealand flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new genus and species, Zootaxa 1716, pp. 1-20 : 5-6

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scientific name

 Platycheirus
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GENUS PLATYCHEIRUS Lepeletier & Serville View in CoL

PLATYCHEIRUS Lepeletier & Serville 1828: 513 View in CoL . Type-species: Syrphus scutatus Meigen, 1822 View in CoL , by designation of Westwood, 1840: 137.

When describing huttoni View in CoL (as milleri View in CoL ) I noted that this species had all the essential characters of Platycheirus View in CoL , sensu lato, except that male prolegs were not modified. Many other species are similarly characterized and the genus group name Eocheilosia Hull is associated with one of these species. Hence, I use this name for those species of Platycheirus View in CoL with unmodified male prolegs. The determination of whether modified male prolegs is a primitive or derived trait must await a world revision of the genus Platycheirus View in CoL and the identification of its sister-group. However, despite the phylogenetic status of Eocheilosia, the group is distinctive morphologically and zoogeographically. About a dozen more species are known and await description.

antipodus Hull, 1949b: 740 View in CoL ( Cheilosia antipoda View in CoL ). captalis Miller, 1924: 282 (Cheilosia) View in CoL .

clarkei Miller, 1921: 310 View in CoL .

cunninghami Miller, 1921: 299 (Cheilosia) View in CoL . fulvipes Miller, 1924: 282 (Cheilosia) View in CoL .

milleri Hull, 1949b: 742 (Cheilosia) View in CoL .

The female holotypes of fulvipes Miller View in CoL and milleri Hull View in CoL were examined and found to represent the same species.

harrisi Miller, 1921: 301 (Syrphus) View in CoL .

howesii Miller, 1921: 298 (Cheilosia) View in CoL .

huttoni Thompson View in CoL in Thompson & Vockeroth, 1989: 439. New name for milleri Thompson. View in CoL milleri Thompson, 1972a: 77 View in CoL [Preoccupied by Hull, 1949]

leptospermi Miller, 1921: 297 (Cheilosia) View in CoL .

lignudus Miller, 1921: 309 View in CoL .

myersii Miller, 1924: 281 (Paragus) View in CoL .

notatus Bigot, 1884: 554 View in CoL ( Chrysogaster notata View in CoL ).

ronanus Miller, 1921: 300 ( Cheilosia ronana View in CoL ).

Bigot, J. M. F. (1884) Dipteres nouveaux ou peu connus. 23 e partie. XXXII Syrphidi (2 e partie). Especes nouvelles, N o II. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (6) 3, 535 - 60. [1884.05.28]

Hull, F. M. (1949 b: Studies upon Diptera in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (12) 2: 727 - 746. [1949.11.04]

Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1828) [Various articles] in Latreille, P. A., A. L. M. Lepeletier, J. G. A. Serville, & F. E. Guerin-Meneville, Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustaces, des arachnides et des insectes. In: Encylopedie methodique. Histoire naturelle. Tome dixieme [concl.]. Agasse, Paris. Pp. 345 - 833. [1828.12.13]

Meigen, J. W. (1822) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm. x + 416 p. [before 1822.11. ??]

Miller, D. W. (1921) Material for a monograph on the Diptera fauna of New Zealand. Part II, Family Syrphidae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 53, 289 - 333. [1921.08.08]

Miller, D. W. (1924) Material for a monograph on the Diptera fauna of New Zealand. Part 2, Family Syrphidae: Supplement A. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 55, 281 - 284. [1924.06.18]

Thompson, F. C. (1972 a) A new Platycheirus from New Zealand. First record of a melanostomine syrphid fly associated with ants. New Zealand Journal of Science, 15, 77 - 84. [1972. ??. ??]

Thompson, F. C. & Vockeroth, J. R. (1989) Family Syrphidae. Pp. 437 - 458. In Evenhuis, N. L. (ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Bishop Museum Special Publication, 86, 1155 pp. Honolulu. [1989.08.23]

Westwood, J. O. (1840) Order XIII. Diptera Aristotle. (Antliata Fabricius. Halteriptera Clariv.), p. 125 - 154. In his An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. Synopsis of the genera of British insects. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. 158 p. [1840.06. ??]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

SubFamily

Syrphinae

Tribe

Bacchini

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