The family Syrphidae consists of more than 6000 living species of hoverfly. The internal taxonomy of the family and the number of genera varies greatly between sources leading to considerable discrepancy across the literature. This is currently in the process of reorganization on the basis of phylogenetic studies but knowledge is still incomplete, especially in light of recent studies of larval characters suggesting relationships which don't correspond with the phylogeny based solely on adult characters.
The current classification is therefore still based on the morphology of adults and basically refers to the taxonomic scheme adopted by Thompson & Rotheray in the Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (1998), which divides the family into three subfamilies and fourteen tribes.
The nomenclature given here is derived partly from the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera (BDWD), and a working classification created by a group of molecular biologists which no doubt will alter greatly in the future.[2]
The distribution of genera in biogeographic realms is derived from the biosystematics BDWD.
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number ofgenera (e.g. Masarygus, Paragodon, Schizoceratomyia and Surimyia) lack the "spurious vein" which is characteristic of all other Syrphidae. For...
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870 species of flower fly (Syrphidae) in North America . The following is an attempt at a comprehensive North American listof this family of insects. Baccha...
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R.C. (1922). "A reclassification of the subfamilies and generaof the North American Syrphidae [cont.]". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society...
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