Copestylum

Copestylum is one of the largest genera of hoverflies in the Americas.^[3] It comprises more than 300 species,^[4] of which only four have been found outside the Americas, having probably been introduced by the importation of cacti in which the larvae live.^[3]

Copestylum
C. sexmaculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Tribe:	Volucellini
Genus:	Copestylum Macquart, 1846[1]
Type species
Copestylum flaviventris Macquart, 1846[1][2]
Species
List of Copestylum species

C. haagii

C. vesicularium

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Taxonomy

Subgenera and type species

The following is a list of the subgenera within Copestylum, with just the type species of each subgenus listed afterwards.^[4]

• Subgenus Copestylum Macquart, 1846 – type Copestylum flaviventre Macquart, 1846^[1]
• Subgenus Phalacromyia Rondani, 1848 – type Copestylum submetallicum (Rondani, 1848)
• Subgenus Glaurotricha Thomson, 1869 – type Copestylum muscarium (Thomson, 1869)
• Subgenus Atemnocera Bigot, 1882a – type Copestylum scutellatum (Macquart, 1842)
• Subgenus Apophysophora Williston, 1888 – type Copestylum trituberculatum Thomson, 1976
• Subgenus Megametopon (= Ophromyia)^[5] Giglio-Tos, 1891 – type Copestylum nasicum (Williston, 1891)
• Subgenus Camerania Giglio-Tos, 1892a^{[Note 1]} – type Copestylum macrocephalum (Giglio-Tos, 1892)
• Subgenus Viereckomyia Curran, 1925b – type Copestylum gibberum (Schiner, 1868)
• Subgenus Lepidopsis Curran, 1925b – type Copestylum compactum (Curran, 1925)
• Subgenus Volosyrpha Shannon, 1929^{[Note 2]} – type Copestylum rufitarse Thomson, 1976
• Subgenus Volucellosia Curran, 1930d – type Copestylum fornax Townsend, 1895
• Subgenus Tachinosyrphus Hull, 1936b – type Copestylum pseudotachina (Hull, 1936)

Species

For a complete list of Copestylum species, see List of Copestylum species.

Notes

1. originally described as Temnocera megacephala (Loew)
2. Type-species, tibialis Shannon preoccupied so renamed rufitarse by Thompson^[4]