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, 58-65 Type material. Holotype &: Indonesia (Sumatra): "66 18", "Gunung Singgalang, 2000 m, Sum, 6. 1915", "Milesia minor De Meijere 1919, ZMAN type DIPT 1021.1, E. Jacobson" (ZMAN).
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The oriental genus Korinchia Edwards, 1919 is revised. The phylogeny and status of the genus is discussed. It is concluded that the Pterallastes group of genera (Korinchia, Pterallastes Loew and Palumbia Rondani) is the sister group of Milesia Latreille. The subdivision of the Pterallastes group in two genera (Pterallastes and Palumbia) is rejected...
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... Among the series of published articles on the Syrphidae of the Indian Brunetti (1907;1908, 1913, 1915, 1923, 1925 listed 21 species with three new species from Nepal. Following Brunetti, Bhatia and Shaffi (1933), Coe (1964), Thompson (1966Thompson ( , 1974Thompson ( , 2012, Vockeroth (1971), Lambeck and Kiauta (1973), Knutson et al. (1975), Wiegmann (1986), Weipert (2003, 2004), van Steenis and Hippa (2012), Ghorpadé (2015a), and Nielsen (2016) added number of hoverfly species that are new records for Nepal. Then, Kapoor et al. (1979) presented 22 species form their field work in Nepal. ...
Nepal is a mountainous country in the Central Himalayas, well known for its high biodiversity and unique fauna. The vivid habitat of Nepal seems to possess high diversity of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae), however, little investigation has been done on these flies in this country. The present study aims to explore the hoverfly fauna based on present field sampling from the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park. The field collection includes 454 hoverfly specimens belonging to 34 species from the park with three new country records: Graptomyza nigripes, Lycastris albipes and Volucella trifasciata. The photographs of dorsal and lateral habitus of all 34 collected species are presented. The present collection of hoverfly specimens in the park shows equal number of species in both subfamilies; Eristalinae and Syrphinae while none of the specimen collected from subfamilies Pipizinae
and Microdontinae.
... The Indomalayan fl ower fl ies are clearly understudied. Recent taxonomic revisionary works brought to attention this fact by the high number of new species discovered (Mengual & Ghorpadé 2010;Mengual 2012Mengual , 2016van Steenis & Hippa 2012;Thompson 2013Thompson , 2015Thompson , 2017aThompson , 2017bThompson , 2020 (Vockeroth & Thompson 1987;Thompson & Rotheray 1998;Thompson et al. 2010;Ssymank et al. 2021) and unpublished revisionary works by F.C. Thompson (Thompson 2006 for South America; Thompson et al. unpub. for Australia), except the Indomalayan Realm. ...
Three new species of Myolepta Newman, 1838 are described from Thailand (M. iota sp. nov.), Laos (M. diaphora sp. nov.) and Indonesia (M. geras sp. nov. from Java), and new records of Myolepta petiolata Thompson, 1971 from Thailand are also provided. Diagnoses, illustrations and known distributional data are given. In addition, the generic affinities and subdivision of Myolepta are discussed based on these newly described taxa.
... Of these, 201 species and 53 genera were listed from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. More recently, a few new species have been described or reported from Malaysia (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25). The most comprehensive work on Malaysian Syrphidae is still the series of Curran (26)(27)(28)(29); unfortunately, they are incomplete in the species treated and obsolete in the classification used. ...
A body of an unknown adult female was found within a shallow burial ground in Malaysia whereas the skull was exposed and visible on the ground. During autopsy examination, nine insect larvae were recovered from the interior of the human skull and subsequently preserved in 70% ethanol. The larvae were greyish in appearance, each with a posterior elongated breathing tube. A week after the autopsy, more larvae were collected at the burial site, and some of them were reared into adults. Adult specimens and larvae from the skull and from the burial site were sequenced to obtain DNA barcodes. Results showed all adult flies reared from the burial site, as well as the larvae collected from the skull were identified as Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) (Diptera: Syrphidae). Here, we report the colonization of E. arvorum larvae on a human corpse for the first time.
... Apart from this, they can be recognized by the presence of body shape, colour pattern and the way of moving (Ghorpade, 1994). Moreover, hover flies form the largest and commonest group in mimics in the Palaearctic (Van Steenis et al., 2012) with up to 25% of species involved in mimicking innumerable diverse models as a part of their defence mechanism (Reuters, 2013). ...
This study altogether includes 96 species of hover flies under 40 genera of 3 subfamilies.Our study further includes 4 species of hoverflies that are Chrysotoxum quadrifasciatum Brunetti, 1923; Eristalinus (Eristalinus) tabanoides (Jaennicke, 1867); Lycastrisalbipes Walker, 1857 and Eumerus aurifrons (Wiedemann, 1824) which are reported for the first time from the state of West Bengal. Their taxonomic keys and detailed diagnostic accounts, as well as the distributional scenario, have been discussed here with latest updatation of nomenclature pattern.
... Dušek and Laska (1980) studied syrphids of Afghanistan and Kirghizia. Indian subcontinent species were also studied by Hippa (1985) and Van Steenis and Hippa (2012). Thompson and Ghorpadé (1992) reviewed the Oriental tribe Paragini, while provided diagnostic keys for 28 genera and 111 species of the tribe Syrphini from the Indian subcontinent. ...
The present study is based mainly on specimens of syrphid flies collected in Pakistan during country-wide surveys made from 2009 to 2014. These results are supplemented by known records of Syrphidae of Pakistan documented by various authorities earlier. These results yielded 71 species of 40 genera from Pakistan. Of these, 11 species viz., Paramixogaster contractus (Brunetti, 1923) Eoseristalis albibasis (Bigot, 1880), Mesembrius quadrivittatus (Wiedemann, 1819), Eumerus nepalensis Brunetti, 1908, Eumerus sexvittatus Brunetti, 1915, Psilota cyanea Hill, 1921, Volucella peleterii Macquart, 1834 Volucella ruficauda Brunetti, 1907, Chrysotoxum antiquum Walker, 1852, Syrphus vitripennis Meigen, 1822 and Xanthogramma pedissequum (Harris, 1776), are first records for Pakistan.
An updated checklist of the hoverflies including distribution and seasonal
occurence data of known species in Nepal is presented. The list is based on all available published literature on taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology, and biological aspects of the syrphid fauna of Nepal up to 2023. A total of 205 species from three subfamilies and 63 genera are known to occur in Nepal. Among the three subfamilies, Eristalinae shares maximum species (111 species, 54%), followed by Syrphinae (90 species, 44%), and Microdontinae (four species, 2%). is presented. Among these, 48 (23%) species are recorded in Nepal only. The distribution of known hoverfly species in the country is not uniform, with the Bagmati (82 species) and Koshi (75 species) provinces having the greatest number of species, while the Madhesh (four species) and Lumbini (one species) provinces having the lowest records. The highest number of species are recorded in May (51 species), followed by July (50 species) and June (48 species). Winter season records are relatively low, and distribution data are still incomplete for some sites. Based on the present review, comprehensive and systematic sampling across the entire country is
necessary for further exploration of Nepal's hoverfly fauna.
New species records of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) are reported from China, South Korea, and Malaysia, as well as several new province records for Korea and China. Baccha laphrieformis Violovitsh, Episyrphus perscitus He and Chu, Eupeodes bucculatus (Rondani), Meligramma cingulata (Egger), Parasyrphus punctulatus (Verrall), Sphaerophoria indiana Bigot, and Sphaerophoria macrogaster (Thomson) are recorded from South Korea. Epistrophe aequalis (Walker) is reported from Malaysia, and Epistrophe sasayamana (Matsumura), Meliscaeva strigifrons (de Meijere), and Sphaerophoria reginae Clauen and Mutin are reported from China. The first female specimens of Epistrophe nigritibia Huo, Ren, and Zheng are documented from Zhejiang province, China.
The genus Teloneria Aczél, 1954 is resurrected from synonymy with Chaetonerius Hendel, 1913 to include four species: Teloneria apicata (Edwards, 1919) comb. nov., Teloneria bimaculata (Edwards, 1919) comb. nov., Teloneria juceliae Sepúlveda & Souza sp. nov. and Teloneria ladyae Sepúlveda & Souza sp. nov. Lectotypes for Telostylus apicatus Edwards, 1919 and its junior synonym, Telostylinus apicalis Enderlein, 1922, and for Telostylinus ornatipennis Enderlein, 1922, junior synonym of Teloneria bimaculata comb. nov., are designated. An identification key to Chaetonerius, Telostylus Bigot, 1859 and Teloneria, with emphasis on the identification of the species of Teloneria, illustrations and distribution data are provided.
ABSTRACT : Hoverflies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) is one of the major pollinating group of insects, our present study
includes the distribution of hoverflies from the state of Himachal Pradesh, it was the first extensive and throughout
survey in this state. In which altogether 49 species of Syrphidae under 27 genera and 9 tribes have been reported from
this state including literature sources. Out of which 6 species have been recorded for the first time from this state, our
current work includes the taxonomic description of these newly recorded species along with pictorial plates. In this work
we have included the latest synonimisation and sub genus status as well as we have included the current nomenclature
pattern.
The genus Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 is recorded from the Oriental region for the first time. Brachyopa exigua spec. nov. is
described from Kambaiti, Myanmar. One additional male is known from Thailand. The new species is compared with similar
Brachyopa species from the Palaearctic region. The reason why the Kambaiti area is a transition zone between the Palaearctic
and Oriental fauna is discussed.
