Platycheirus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Syrphoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Muscomorpha Sectio: Aschiza Superfamilia: Syrphoidea

Familia: Syrphidae
Subfamilia: Syrphinae
Tribe: Bacchini
Genus: Platycheirus
Subgenera: P. (Carposcalis) – P. (Pachysphyria) – P. (Platycheirus) – P. (Tuberculanostoma)
Species: P. neoperpallidus
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Name

Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828: 513

• Also written as Platycheirus Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Type species: Syrphus scutatus Meigen, 1822, by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1840: 137 [= Platycheirus (Platycheirus) scutatus (Meigen, 1822)]

Synonymy

• Pseudoplatychirus van Doesburg, 1955
  • Also written as Pseudoplatychirus Doesburg, 1955

References

Primary references

• Lepeletier, A.L.M. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1828. In: Latreille P.A. (Ed.): Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par ordre de matières [...]. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes.. Tome dixième [Vol. 10 (2)]. Paris: Veuve Agasse. pp. 345–832. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Barkalov, A.V. 2013: A new Platycheirus Le Peletier et Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Syrphidae) species of the manicatus subgroup, from the Taimyr Peninsula (Northern Siberia). Zootaxa 3681(2): 175–181. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.2.7 Reference page. 
• Barkalov, A.V. & T.R. Nielsen, 2007: A new Platycheirus species of the manicatus subgroup (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Caucasus. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 54 (2): 129–134. [1].
• Barkalov, A.V. & T.R. Nielsen, 2008: Platycheirus species (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Altai Mountains, SE Siberia, with description of five new species. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 55 (1): 91–104. Abstract: [2].
• Haarto, A. 2015. The description of the female of Platycheirus troll Mutin (Diptera, Syrphidae) with a preliminary key to the Northern Palaearctic females of the Platycheirus clypeatus group. Zootaxa 4000(3): 383–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.3.5 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Young, A.D., Marshall, S.A. & Skevington, J.H. 2016. Revision of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the Nearctic north of Mexico. Zootaxa 4082(1): 1–317. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4082.1.1 Full article (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-897-0 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77557-898-7 (Online edition) Reference page. 
• Mengual, X. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships of the bacchine flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on molecular characters, with a description of a new species of Melanostoma (Schiner, 1860). Contributions to Zoology 89(2): 210–244. DOI: 10.1163/18759866-20191410 Reference page. 

Links

• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Nomenclator Detail Record. Platycheirus. Record #4428. Systema Dipterorum (www.diptera.org) version 6.0, last updated 3 February 2025. Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T.. Accessed: 2 April 2025.