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Tribe Eristalini


Revision of the nearctic species of Helophilus and allied genera
By C. H. Curran and C. L. Fluke
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1926
Volume 2 of Manual of Nearctic Diptera cites this reference as the latest for a few genera of Eristalini.

Online at http://digicoll-dev.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=article&did=WI.WT1926.CHCurran&id=WI.WT1926&isize=M

New species of Syrphidae and Asilidae (Diptera)
By F. M. Hull
Pan-Pac. Ent. 36: 69-74, 1960
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Description of Meromacrus croceatus.

New Syrphidae from Central America and the West Indies
By C. H. Curran
Am. Mus. Novit. 416, 11 pp., 1930
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Description of Meromacrus panamensis

The flies of the genus Meromacrus (Syrphidae).
By F. M. Hull
American Museum Novitates, 1200: 1-10., 1942
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Missing Meromacrus croceatus and M. panamensis & also includes many species outside our area.

The genus Pleskeola Stackelberg (Diptera: Syrphidae), a junior synonym of Parhelophilus Girschner
By Thompson F.C.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 99: 628-640, 1997

Eristalis (Diptera: Syrphidae) from America North of Mexico
By Telford H.S.
Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 63(5): 1201-1210, 1970

Revision of the Eristalis flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Americas south of the United States
By Thompson F.C.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 92: 209-237, 1997

Review of New World Sericomyia (Diptera: Syrphidae), including description of a new species
By Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C.
Can. Entomol. 144: 216–247, 2012