Xanthandrus Verrall, 1901

Thompson, F. Christian & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2014, Afrotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). A new genus and species from Kenya, with a review of the melanostomine group of genera, Zootaxa 3847 (1), pp. 97-114 : 107

Genus Xanthandrus Verrall

Xanthandrus Verrall, 1901: 316 . Type, Musca comtus Harris by subsequent designation of Coquillett (1910: 620).

Hiratana Matsumura & Adachi, 1919: 129 . Type, Syrphus quadriguttulus Matsumura by original designation = comtus Harris. Androsyrphus Thompson, 1981: 106 (as a subgenus). Type, Xanthandrus setifemoratus Thompson by original designation. Indosyrphus Kohli, 1987: 132 . Type, garhwalensis Kohli by original designation.

Indosyrphus Kohli , et al. 1988: 121. Type, garhwalensis Kohli, Kapoor & Gupta by original designation.

Afroxanthandrus Kassebeer, 2000a: 150 . Type, Xanthandrus congoensis Curran by original designation.

All regions (28 species: Nearctic (2 species), Palaearctic (3 species), Neotropical (14 species), Afrotropical (2 species), Oriental (6 species), Australasian (2 species)). The genus is divided into three subgenera ( Androsyrphus , West Indies (1 species [ setifemoratus Thompson ]); Afroxanthandrus , Afrotropical (2 species); and the typic subgenus for the rest of the species).