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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Ocyptamus

Genus Ocyptamus

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Possible Sargus species? - Ocyptamus fuscipennis

Flower Fl--(Ocyptamus fuscipennis)? - Ocyptamus fuscipennis

skinny Syrphid - Ocyptamus fuscipennis - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Syrphinae

Tribe Syrphini

Genus Ocyptamus

Other Common Names

O. cylindricus species group

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

the taxonomy adopted here follows that proposed in(1)(2), whereby several nearctic spp. formerly treated in Ocyptamus have been transferred to other genera (Hybobathus, Pelecinobaccha, Pseudoscaeva) to avoid paraphyly with regards to Eosalpingogaster and Toxomerus(1)(Mengual 2012)

Explanation of Names

Ocyptamus Macquart 1834

Numbers

10 spp. in our area(2), 17 total [if defined broadly, ~300 spp. total](1)

Size

9-14 mm

Range

New World

Habitat

Some tropical species have aquatic larvae (Rotheray et al. 2000)

Food

Larvae prey on aphids, coccids, etc.

See Also

Baccha

Dioprosopa

Hybobathus

Pelecinobaccha

Pseudoscaeva

Print References

Mengual X. et al. (2012) Is the mega-diverse genus Ocyptamus (Diptera, Syrphidae) monophyletic? Evidence from molecular characters including the secondary structure of 28S rRNA. (Abstract)

Rotheray G.E., Zumbado M., Hancock E.G., Thompson F.C. (2000) Remarkable aquatic predators in the genus Ocyptamus (Diptera, Syrphidae). Studia dipterologica 7: 385-389 (Full text)

Internet References

Taxon page(2)

Works Cited

1.	An overview of the genus Ocyptamus Macquart, 1834, with a revision of the Ocyptamus tristis species group (PhD thesis) Gonçalves Miranda G.F. 2011. Guelph, Ontario. iii+617 pp.

2.	Key to the genera of nearctic Syrphidae Miranda G.F.G, Young A.D., Locke M.M., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C. 2013. CJAI 23: 1‒351.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 February, 2005 - 12:50pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, v belov, kbyers, zdanko
Last updated 6 August, 2021 - 8:54pm

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