Melanostoma fasciatum

Familia: Syrphidae
Subfamilia: Syrphinae
Tribus: Melanostomini
Genus: Melanostoma
Species:

Melanostoma fasciatum (Macquart, 1850)

Type locality: New Zealand, Akaroa [?] (= "Nouvelle-Zélande, Akara" [near Christchurch after Hutton, 1901).

Typus: Holotype [NZAC?]

• Plesia fasciata Macquart, 1850: 461, tab.14, fig.15. Protonym. (Note, generic name a junior homonym as preoccupied)
• Melanostoma fasciatum (Macquart, 1850); Hutton, 1901: 42 Comb. nov.
• Melanostoma apertum Hutton, 1901: 42; Junior subjective synonym of Melanostoma fasciatum in Thompson, 2008: 5)
  • Type locality: New Zealand, Christchurch.
    • Typus: [?]

• Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4.e supplément. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849: 309–479. BHL [Also reprinted separately with different pagination: 5–161, see Crosskey, R.W., 1980: 1066.] Reference page. 
• Hutton, F.W. 1901. Synopsis of the Diptera Brachycera of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 33: 1–95. BHL Reference page. 
• Thompson, F.C. 2008. A conspectus of New Zealand flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new genus and species. Zootaxa 1716(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1716.1.1 hdl: 10088/9708 PDF. Reference page. 

• Hickman, J.M., Lövei, G.L. & Wratten, S.D. 1995. Pollen feeding by adults of the hoverfly Melanostoma fasciatum (Diptera: Syrphidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 22 (4): 387–392. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1995.9518057
• Holloway, B.A. 1976: Pollen-feeding in hover-flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 3(4): 339–350. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1976.9517924 Reference page. 
• Irvin, N.A. et al. 1999. The phenology and pollen feeding of three hover fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) species in Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology 26 (2): 105–115. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1999.9518182
• Lövei, G.L., Macleod, A. & Hickman, J.M. 1998. Dispersal and effects of barriers on the movement of the New Zealand hover fly Melanostoma fasciatum (Dipt., Syrphidae) on cultivated land. Journal of Applied Entomology 122(1-5): 115–120. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0418.1998.tb01471.x
• Pontin, D.R. et al. 2006. Attractiveness of single and multiple species flower patches to beneficial insects in agroecosystems. Annals of Applied Biology 148 (1): 39–47. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7348.2005.00037.x
• Rada, R. et al. 2009. Alternative pollinator taxa are equally efficient but not as effective as the honeybee in a mass flowering crop. Journal of Applied Ecology 46 (5): 1080–1087. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01700.x
• Rada, R. et al. 2012. Spatial and temporal variation in pollinator effectiveness: do unmanaged insects provide consistent pollination services to mass flowering crops? Journal of Applied Ecology 49(1): 126–134. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02066.x
• Wratten, S.D. et al. 2003. Field boundaries as barriers to movement of hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in cultivated land. Oecologia 134(4): 605–611. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1128-9

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