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Syrphus

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

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

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
familySyrphidae()
subfamilySyrphinae
tribeSyrphini
genusSyrphus

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 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
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (Colorado) S. lithaphidis (105004)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) S. sp. (121322)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Colorado) S. eocenicus (114007) S. hendersoni (152078)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) S. aphidopsidis (122742) S. petrographicus, S. willistoni (132748) S. willistoni (106379 106381 113749) S. willistoni, S. platychiralis, S. carpenteri (106384)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4France S. reciprocus (121476)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany S. sp., S. euphemus (123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) S. aeneus (122010)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia S. haidingeri (117761) S. infumatus (117250)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Italy (Tuscany) S. sp. (113751)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Texas) S. sp. (154909)