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Syrphus

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Taxonomy

Syrphus was named by Fabricius (1775). It is extant. It is the type genus of Syrphidae, Syrphinae, Syrphini.

It was assigned to Diptera by Latreille (1796); to Antliata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Syrphiae by Latreille (1802); to Syrphinae by Statz (1940), Hull (1945) and Werner (1969); to Syrphidae by Scudder (1878), Cockerell (1921) and Carpenter (1992); and to Syrphini by Mengual et al. (2015).

Species

S. aphidopsidis, S. carpenteri, S. eocenicus, S. euphemus, S. haidingeri, S. hendersoni, S. infumatus, S. lithaphidis, S. petrographicus, S. platychiralis, S. reciprocus, S. statzi (syn. S. aeneus), S. willistoni

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1775	Syrphus Fabricius p. 762
1796	Syrphus Latreille p. 163
1798	Syrphus Fabricius p. 561
1802	Syrphus Latreille p. 450
1878	Syrphus Scudder p. 754
1921	Syrphus Cockerell
1940	Syrphus Statz p. 142
1945	Syrphus Hull p. 258
1969	Syrphus Werner p. 127
1992	Syrphus Carpenter
2015	Syrphus Mengual et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
order	Diptera

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
—	Heterodactyla
—	Eremoneura
suborder	Cyclorrhapha	()
family	Syrphidae	()
subfamily	Syrphinae
tribe	Syrphini
genus	Syrphus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Syrphus Fabricius 1775

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†Syrphus aphidopsidis Cockerell 1909

†Syrphus carpenteri Hull 1945

†Syrphus eocenicus Cockerell 1925

†Syrphus euphemus von Heyden 1870

†Syrphus haidingeri Heer 1849

†Syrphus hendersoni James 1932

†Syrphus infumatus Heer 1849

†Syrphus lithaphidis Cockerell 1921

†Syrphus petrographicus Hull 1960

†Syrphus platychiralis Hull 1945

†Syrphus reciprocus Förster 1891

†Syrphus statzi van der Goot 1964

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Invalid names: Syrphus aeneus Statz 1940 [replaced]

†Syrphus willistoni Cockerell 1909

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Bridgerian to the top of the Blancan or 50.30000 to 1.80000 Ma

Collections (17 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	USA (Colorado)	S. lithaphidis (105004)
Bridgerian	50.3 - 46.2	USA (Colorado)	S. eocenicus (114007) S. hendersoni (152078)
Bridgerian	50.3 - 46.2	USA (Wyoming)	S. sp. (121322)
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	S. aphidopsidis (122742) S. petrographicus, S. willistoni (132748) S. willistoni (106379 106381 113749) S. willistoni, S. platychiralis, S. carpenteri (106384)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	France	S. reciprocus (121476)
MP 30	28.4 - 23.03	Germany	S. sp., S. euphemus (123945)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	S. aeneus (122010)
Sarmatian	12.7 - 11.608	Croatia	S. haidingeri (117761) S. infumatus (117250)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Italy (Tuscany)	S. sp. (113751)
Blancan	4.9 - 1.8	USA (Texas)	S. sp. (154909)