'' Megasyrphus'' is a genus of
hoverflies
Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphids, make up the insect family (biology), family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen Hover (behaviour), hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed main ...
in the subfamily
Syrphinae
The Syrphinae constitute one of the three subfamilies of the fly family Syrphidae. Most larvae of this subfamily feed on aphids. It is a monophyletic group with more than 1,600 species.
Gallery
File:Melanostoma sp. (scalare^) Female. - Flick ...
.
It was formally a subgenus of ''
Eriozona''.
Species
*''
Megasyrphus alashayicus''
(Peck, 1974)
*''
Megasyrphus catalina''
( Curran, 1830)[ ]
*''
Megasyrphus chinensis''
(Ho, 1987)
*''
Megasyrphus erraticus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
*''
Megasyrphus laxus''
( Osten Sacken, 1875)[ ]
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2746794
Diptera of Europe
Syrphinae
Syrphini
Hoverfly genera