The Diptera genus-group names of Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart are reviewed and annotated. A total of 399 available genus-group names in 69 families of Diptera are listed alphabetically, for each name giving author, year and page of original publication, originally included species, type species and method of fixation, current status of the name, family placement, and a list of any emendations o...

Sequence data from 420 bp of mitochondrial 12s ribosomal DNA and 490 bp of 16s rDNA were analyzed for 27 species of Syrphoidea (Diptera) and two outgroup taxa. Morphological data for the Pipunculidae were combined with the pipunculid molecular data set. A partition homogeneity test on these data sets revealed no significant incongruence. The pipunculid phylogeny from molecular data closely rese...

Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 83(2): 220-229 (1990) ABSTRACT Descriptions are provided of the egg, larvae, and puparium of Paracantha gentilis Hering, a native, stenophagous tephritid which infests the capitula of thistles. Detailed examination of larvae led to the discovery of a median oral lobe between the mouth hooks. This is the first structure of this kind described for Tephritidae. Two sensory s...

The African endemic hover fly Meromacroides meromacriformis (Bezzi, 1915) (Syrphidae, Eristalinae) was described more than a century ago and its monotypic status established in 1927, but subsequent collections publications are rare. Only the male has been nothing is known about biology. We re-describe male, including geographic variation, describe female for first time provide DNA barcodes spec...

Urban and peri-urban forests are important habitats for maintaining biodiversity in cities. In this paper, we report a method using hoverflies as indicators urban forest habitats. As case study, three were assessed compared to rural Slovenia. Rožnik (Ljubljana) was chosen the site, Mestni log Brdo (Kranj) sites, eight sites different ecoregions Forest hoverfly species richness composition of bi...

Hoverflies (Syrphidae) are a large Dipteran family, distributed almost worldwide. They play very important ecological roles such as plant pollination, nutrient recycling and predation of pests. The members the genus Epistrophe Walker, 1852 medium-sized hoverflies which about 75 species have been described in World, 12 them occur Europe. During survey, conducted from 16th June to 4th July 2021 a...