Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville
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GENUS PLATYCHEIRUS Lepeletier & Serville
PLATYCHEIRUS Lepeletier & Serville 1828: 513. Type-species: Syrphus scutatus Meigen, 1822, by designation of Westwood, 1840: 137.
When describing huttoni (as milleri) I noted that this species had all the essential characters of Platycheirus, 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 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 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 (Cheilosia antipoda). captalis Miller, 1924: 282 (Cheilosia).
clarkei Miller, 1921: 310.
cunninghami Miller, 1921: 299 (Cheilosia). fulvipes Miller, 1924: 282 (Cheilosia).
milleri Hull, 1949b: 742 (Cheilosia).
The female holotypes of fulvipes Miller and milleri Hull were examined and found to represent the same species.
harrisi Miller, 1921: 301 (Syrphus).
howesii Miller, 1921: 298 (Cheilosia).
huttoni Thompson in Thompson & Vockeroth, 1989: 439. New name for milleri Thompson. milleri Thompson, 1972a: 77 [Preoccupied by Hull, 1949]
leptospermi Miller, 1921: 297 (Cheilosia).
lignudus Miller, 1921: 309.
myersii Miller, 1924: 281 (Paragus).
notatus Bigot, 1884: 554 (Chrysogaster notata).
ronanus Miller, 1921: 300 (Cheilosia ronana).
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Published as part of Thompson, Christian, 2008, A conspectus of New Zealand flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new genus and species, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 1716 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181009Files
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Platycheirus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Lepeletier & Serville
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References
- 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. ??]
- 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. ??]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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. ??. ??]
- 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]