| Aristosyrphus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Aristosyrphus Curran, 1941 |
| Type species | |
| Aristosyrphus primus Curran, 1941 | |
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Aristosyrphus is a genus of Neotropical hoverflies.
Species
The genus contains 15 species, divided into two subgenera Aristosyrphus and Eurypterosyrphus Barretto & Lane, 1947:
Subgenus Aristosyrphus
- A. barrettoi Thompson, 2008 – Brazil (Goias)
- A. bellus Marinoni, 2008 – Brazil (Amazonas)
- A. boraceiensis (Papavero, 1962)
- A. brunneus Thompson, 2008 – Costa Rica & Brazil (São Paulo)
- A. carpenteri (Hull, 1945)
- A. elegans Thompson, 2008 – Brazil (Roraima)
- A. elongatus Hull, 1943
- A. fortuitus Ramirez, 2008 – Mexico (Jalisco)
- A. minutus Thompson, 2004
- A. obscurus Thompson, 2008 – Brazil (Santa Catarina)
- A. primus Curran, 1941
- A. samperi Thompson, 2008 – Colombia, Peru & Costa Rica
Subgenus Eurypterosyrphus
- A. currani (Goot, 1964)
- A. macropterus (Curran, 1941)
- A. melanopterus Barretto & Lane, 1947
References
- ^ Xin-Yue Cheng & F. Christian Thompson (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1879: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3.
- Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
- ^ F. Christian Thompson & Luciane Marinoni (2008). "The genus Aristosyrphus Curran (Diptera: Syrphidae)" (Abstract). Studia Dipterologica (Supplement): in press.
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