Merodon

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Merodon
Merodon equestris01.jpg
Merodon equestris the Narcissus bulb fly
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Subfamily:
Eristalinae
Tribe:
Genus:
Merodon

Meigen, 1803
Synonyms[2]
  • Lampetia Meigen, 1800 [1]
  • Penthesilia Swinderen, 1822

Merodon is a large genus of bee-like hoverflies. The majority of the species are centered on the Mediterranean and it is the second largest hoverfly genus in Europe with more than 50 European species. It is distributed over the Palaearctic and Afrotropical realms, with most European species occurring in Southern and Eastern Europe. The centre of distribution of this genus appears to be Turkey, where about 65 species have been recorded. Some species occur in Africa (Morocco through East Africa and Ghana to South Africa) and the middle East, as far as Pakistan. Given the rate at which new species have been recorded over the past decades, the worldwide number of species could exceed 200. The larvae feed on the bulbs or rhizomes of monocotyledons.

One of the more common species in the genus, Merodon equestris is known as the Narcissus bulb fly, greater bulb-fly, large bulb fly or large Narcissus fly.

Systematics[]

Species include:

  • Egger, 1860
  • van der Goot, 1969
  • Meigen, 1822
  • Gil Collado, 1930
  • Paramonov, 1925
  • Meigen, 1822
  • Vujic, Radenkovic & Simic, 1996
  • Paramonov, 1925
  • Bradescu, 1986
  • Paramonov, 1929
  • (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Róndani, 1843
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Fabricius, 1805
  • Sack, 1913
  • Meigen, 1830
  • (Rossi, 1790)
  • Paramonov, 1924
  • Curran, 1939
  • Gil Collado, 1930
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Loew, 1869
  • Portschinsky, 1877
  • Sack, 1913
  • Wiedemann in Meigen, 1822
  • (Fabricius, 1794)
  • (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Sack, 1913
  • (Rossi, 1794)
  • Paramonov, 1925
  • Paramonov, 1925
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Vujic, Simic & Radenkovic, 1995
  • Palma, 1863
  • Bradescu, 1982
  • Paramonov, 1926
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • M. equestris (Fabricius, 1794)
  • (Fabricius, 1805)
  • Paramonov, 1925
  • Gil Collado, 1929
  • Strobl, 1909
  • Paramonov, 1925
  • Sack, 1913
  • Sack, 1913
  • Paramonov, 1936
  • (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Strobl, 1909
  • Sack, 1913
  • Sack, 1913
  • Sack, 1931
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • Zimina, 1989
  • (Stackelberg, 1960)
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • van der Goot, 1964
  • Sack, 1913
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007 [3]
  • Sack, 1938
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • Strobl, 1893
  • Sack, 1931
  • (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Róndani, 1845
  • Wiedemann in Meigen, 1822
  • Loew, 1862
  • (Rossi, 1790)
  • Marcos-García, Vujic & Mengual, 2007[3]
  • Costa, 1884
  • Meigen, 1822
  • Sack, 1913
  • Meigen, 1838
  • (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Becker, 1907
  • Paramonov, 1929
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • Bradescu, 1986
  • Hauser & Hurkmans, 1997[4]
  • Sack, 1913
  • van der Goot, 1966
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • Hurkmans, 1993
  • Sack, 1913
  • Costa, 1884
  • Strobl, 1909
  • Loew, 1869

References[]

  1. ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 253, xvpp. ISBN 1-899935-05-3.
  2. ^ Evenhuis, Neal L. (2020). "The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano". Zootaxa. 4859 (3): 383–396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Maria Angeles Marcos-García; Ante Vujic; Ximo Mengual (2007). "Revision of Iberian species of the genus Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae)" (PDF). European Journal of Entomology. 104 (1): 531–572. ISSN 1210-5759. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
  4. ^ Martin Hauser & Willem Hurkmans. (1997). "Eine neue Merodon Art aus Tunesien (Diptera: Syrphidae)" (PDF). . 107 (10): 423–428. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2009-01-16.

General References for Merodon[]

  • Hurkmans, Willem, 1993. A Monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136: 147-234.
  • Sack, Pius, 1913. Die Gattung Merodon Meigen (Lampetia Meigen olim.). Abhandlungen des Senckenbergische Gesellschafts der Naturforscher 31: 427-462
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