Species Polybiomyia townsendi

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Species ID help - Polybiomyia townsendi - male

Interesting Cerioidini - Polybiomyia townsendi - female

Curated male Polybiomyia from the Essig Museum - Polybiomyia townsendi - male

Thick-headed fly Physocephala maybe?? - Polybiomyia townsendi - 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 Eristalinae

Tribe Cerioidini

Genus Polybiomyia

Species townsendi (Polybiomyia townsendi)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ceria townsendi Snow 1895

Cerioides townsendi Curran 1924

Polybiomyia townsendi Shannon 1925

Polybiomyia festiva Hull 1930

Range

CA-TX & Mexico(1)

Remarks

The original 1895 description by Snow is here.

A 1924 description by Curran appears here.

Shannon's 1925 revision of Cerioidini, though quite old, has the most recent key for nearctic taxa in Polybiomyia.

In 1930, Hull described Polybiomyia festiva (see 1st page of PDF here), which according to this Systema Dipterorum listing has been synonymized under P. townsendi.

Print References

Curran, C. H. (1924). Subfamily Cerioidinae, Genus Cerioides in: Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae from North of Mexico. Univ. of Kansas Sci. Bull. 15:77-216 (Full Text)

Hull, F. M. (1930). Some Notes and Descriptions of Cerioidine Wasp-waisted Flies (Syrphidæ, Diptera). Psyche 37(2):178-181 (Full Text)

Shannon, R.C. (1925) The syrphid–flies of the subfamily Ceriodinae in the U.S. National Museum Collection. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, No. 13, 48–65. (Full Text)

Snow, W. A. (1895). Diptera of Colorado and New Mexico. Syrphidae. Kans. Univ. Quart. 3: 225-247. (Full Text)

Works Cited

1.	Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 12 May, 2009 - 7:42pm
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