Copestylum
Genus of flies
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Copestylum is one of the largest genera of hoverflies in the Americas.[3] It comprises more than 300 species,[4] of which only four have been found outside the Americas, having probably been introduced by the importation of cacti in which the larvae live.[3]
| Copestylum | |
|---|---|
| |
| C. sexmaculatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Tribe: | Volucellini |
| Genus: | Copestylum Macquart, 1846[1] |
| Type species | |
| Copestylum flaviventris | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy
Subgenera and type species
The following is a list of the subgenera within Copestylum, with just the type species of each subgenus listed afterwards.[4]
- Subgenus Copestylum Macquart, 1846 – type Copestylum flaviventre Macquart, 1846[1]
- Subgenus Phalacromyia Rondani, 1848 – type Copestylum submetallicum (Rondani, 1848)
- Subgenus Glaurotricha Thomson, 1869 – type Copestylum muscarium (Thomson, 1869)
- Subgenus Atemnocera Bigot, 1882a – type Copestylum scutellatum (Macquart, 1842)
- Subgenus Apophysophora Williston, 1888 – type Copestylum trituberculatum Thomson, 1976
- Subgenus Megametopon (= Ophromyia)[5] Giglio-Tos, 1891 – type Copestylum nasicum (Williston, 1891)
- Subgenus Camerania Giglio-Tos, 1892a[Note 1] – type Copestylum macrocephalum (Giglio-Tos, 1892)
- Subgenus Viereckomyia Curran, 1925b – type Copestylum gibberum (Schiner, 1868)
- Subgenus Lepidopsis Curran, 1925b – type Copestylum compactum (Curran, 1925)
- Subgenus Volosyrpha Shannon, 1929[Note 2] – type Copestylum rufitarse Thomson, 1976
- Subgenus Volucellosia Curran, 1930d – type Copestylum fornax Townsend, 1895
- Subgenus Tachinosyrphus Hull, 1936b – type Copestylum pseudotachina (Hull, 1936)
Species
For a complete list of Copestylum species, see List of Copestylum species.
