Eristalini is a tribe (biology), tribe of hoverfly, hoverflies. Several species are well-known honeybee Mimicry, mimics, such as the drone fly ''Eristalis tenax'', while other genera such as ''Helophilus'' and ''Parhelophilus'' exhibit wasp-like patterns of yellow and black stripes, both strategies to avoid predation by visual predators such as birds. They breed in decaying organic materials such as run-offs from dung heaps (''Eristalis'') or in ponds and ditches (e.g. ''Anasimyia''). Some others, such as ''Myathropa'' and ''Mallota'', breed in wet rotting tree stumps and rot holes. A characteristic feature of this tribe is the "rat-tailed maggot" with a rear positioned telescopic breathing tube, allowing the larvae to breathe while living submerged in water or mud. This feature is also shared with another hoverfly tribe the Sericomyiini though those flies do not share the characteristic eristaline dip in wing vein R4+5.

List of genera

Thompson considers the tribe Sericomyiini a subtribe of the Eristalini while others separate it. Subtribe: Eristalina * ''Austalis'' F. Christian Thompson, Thompson & Vockeroth, 2003 * ''Axona (fly), Axona'' Francis Walker (entomologist), Walker, 1864 * ''Digulia'' Johannes C. H. de Meijere, Meijere, 1913 * ''Dissoptera'' Frederick Wallace Edwards, Edwards, 1915 * ''Eristalinus'' Camillo Rondani, Rondani, 1845 * ''Eristalis'' Pierre André Latreille, Latreille, 1804 * ''Keda (fly), Keda'' Charles Howard Curran, Curran, 1931 * ''Kertesziomyia'' Shiraki, 1930 * ''Lycastrirhyncha'' Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, Bigot, 1859 * ''Meromacroides'' Charles Howard Curran, Curran, 1927 * ''Meromacrus'' Camillo Rondani, Rondani, 1849 * ''Palpada'' Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart, Macquart, 1834 * ''Phytomia'' Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Guerin-Meneville, 1833 * ''Senaspis'' Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart, Macquart, 1850 * ''Simoides'' Hermann Loew, Loew, 1858 * ''Solenaspis'' Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, Osten Sacken, 1881 Subtribe: Helophilina * ''Anasimyia'' Ignaz Rudolph Schiner, Schiner, 1864 * ''Austrophilus'' F. Christian Thompson, Thompson, 2000 * ''Chasmomma'' Mario Bezzi, Bezzi, 1915 * ''Dolichogyna'' Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart, Macquart, 1842 * ''Habromyia'' Samuel Wendell Williston, Williston, 1888 * ''Helophilus'' Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Meigen, 1822 * ''Lejops'' Camillo Rondani, Rondani, 1857 * ''Mallota'' Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Meigen, 1822 * ''Mesembrius'' Camillo Rondani, Rondani, 1857 * ''Myathropa'' Camillo Rondani, Rondani, 1845 * ''Ohmyia'' F. Christian Thompson, Thompson, 1999 * ''Parhelophilus'' Ernst August Girschner, Girschner, 1897 * ''Quichuana'' Knab, 1913

References

Eristalini Brachycera tribes {{Eristalini-stub