Genus Palpada Macquart

Palpada Macquart, 1834:512 . Type species, Palpada scutellata Macquart (mon.) = scutellaris (Fabricius) .

Refs.: Curran, 1928:42 (key to Puertorican spp.) 1830c:3–6, 134:407–411 (key to World spp. as part of Eristalis); Bean, 1949 (M genitalia); Hull, 1949b:390, fig. 241 (head); Thompson, 1972:142–144 (desc.); Thompson et al. 1976:113 (cat.); Thompson, 1997:209–237 (rev, key and notes); Morales & Marinoni, 2009:301–347 (Cladistic analysis and taxonomic rev. of scutellaris group); Thompson, 2003:4, 13 (key, syn. and taxonomic notes); Mengual & Thompson, 2008 (species group and rev. of ruficeps subgroup).

Doliosyrphus Bigot, 1882:120 . Type species, Doliosyrphus scutellatus Bigot (subs. des. by Williston, 1887:178) = scutellaris (Fabricius) .

Dolyosyrphus, Bigot, 1883:228 . Misspelling.