Syritta

Syritta is a genus of hoverflies, family Syrphidae.[1]

Syritta
male Syritta pipiens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Milesiini
Genus: Syritta
Le Peletier & Serville, 1828
Type species
Musca pipiens
Diversity
60 species

The genus probably originated in the Afrotropical region. 13 of the 18 recognized species groups are found south of the Sahara. 15 species inhabit the Oriental and Australian-Pacific regions, and only six species are described from the Palearctic region. The two species that occur in North America as far south as Mexico, S. flaviventris and S. pipiens, were probably introduced by humans.

One of the most common species of this genus is Syritta pipiens, a hoverfly from Europe, currently distributed across Eurasia and North America.

Species
  • Syritta aenigmatopatria Hardy, 1964
  • Syritta albopilosa Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – West Africa
  • Syritta barbata Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – West Africa
  • Syritta bulbus Walker, 1849 – West Africa
  • Syritta divergata Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – West Africa
  • Syritta fasciata (Wiedemann, 1830) – West Africa
  • Syritta flaviventris Macquart, 1842 – Africa, Europe, introduced to South and North America and Easter Island
  • Syritta hackeri Klocker, 1924 – Australia, Hawai'i, Java
  • Syritta indica Wiedemann, 1824 – India, Nepal, Taiwan
  • Syritta leucopleura Bigot, 1859 – West Africa
  • Syritta longiseta Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – West Africa
  • Syritta noona Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – Papua New Guinea
  • Syritta oceanica Macquart – Australia, Polynesia, Hawai'i, Solomon Islands
  • Syritta orientalis Macquart – India, Australia, Hawai'i, Indonesia, Micronesia
  • Syritta papua Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – Papua New Guinea
  • Syritta pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Syritta polita Lyneborg & Barkemeyer, 2005 – Papua New Guinea
  • Syritta snyderi Shiraki, 1963 – Bonin Islands
  • Syritta stigmatica Loew, 1858 – West Africa
  • Syritta vittata Portschinsky, 1857 – East Palaearctic
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

References
  1. "Syritta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 20, 2008.
  • Australian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog: Syrphidae
  • Lyneborg, Leif & Barkemeyer, Werner (2005): The Genus Syritta: A World Revision of the Genus Syritta Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 (Diptera: Syrphidae). Entomonograph Volume 15. Apollo Books ISBN 87-88757-53-6 — Review
  • BugGuide.net: Syritta pipiens
  • Nearctica.com: Syrphidae
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