Melanostoma mellinum ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), Zootaxa 4577 (2), pp. 201-248 : 204

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:959CC8F8-E214-4A56-9343-CBCC2CBD43DD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929717

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC77878C-FF9C-8B2B-8585-DB86FDBF36EE

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Melanostoma mellinum ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
status

 

Melanostoma mellinum ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Musca mellinum Linnaeus, 1758: 594 View in CoL . Type locality: Sweden (Svecia).

Musca facultas Harris, 1780: 109. Type locality: England.

Syrphus concolor Walker, 1851: 296 View in CoL . Type locality: England.

World distribution: NE: North America from Alaska to Quebec and south to Washington. PA: Afghanistan, Canary Is.,? Egypt, Europe (from Iceland and Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean), Iran, Israel, Japan, Madeira, Mongolia, North Africa, Russia.

Egyptian localities: Unknown.

Activity period in Egypt: Unknown.

Remarks: This is an old record from Egypt by Dirickx (1994), but no such record was listed by Peck (1988) and we are unaware of any such record. On the other hand, the species has been recorded from every other North African country including Libya.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Melanostoma

Loc

Melanostoma mellinum ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis 2019
2019
Loc

Syrphus concolor

Walker, F. 1851: 296
1851
Loc

mellinum

Linnaeus, C. 1758: 594
1758
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