<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">Dear all,</p>
<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">I know only situation around D. lenensis. Dasysyrphus lenensis was synonymized with D. nigricornis by Anatolyi Barkalov in his paper: </p>
<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">Barkalov A.V. 2007 Hoverflies of the genus Dasysyrphus Enderlein, 1937 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. Euroasian Entomological Journal 6: 273-298+ VIII<br />
But I discussed this synonymy with him when prepared data for TaxoFly and we have to repair this synonymy to D. nigricornis and D. kegali. D. lenensis is surely separated species to D. nigricornis according to current opinion of Anatolyi, but not published yet. So I used D. lenensis in TaxoFly, even if I am not so sure if D. lenensis is conspecific with Centraleuropean populations named as D. lenensis.</p>
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<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">With best wishes</p>
<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">Libor</p>
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:45:14 +0000<br />
From: Francis Gilbert <Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk><br />
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Dear all<br />
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Does anybody know why scientific names of hoverflies have been changed lately in the Catalogue of Life? Examples are Melanostoma mellinum, now M. mellina, and Dasysyrphus lenensis, now a synonym for D. nigricornis.<br />
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Where were changes published?<br />
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:59:32 +0200<br />
From: ximo mengual sanchis <xmengual@gmail.com><br />
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Hi Leif,<br />
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I am not aware of a publication with such changes. Catalogue of Life<br />
receives the taxonomic information from www.diptera.org<br />
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If you do a little search there, this is what I found for *D. lenensis*:<br />
<a href="http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/48073">http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/48073</a><br />
Under Authority, they cite Barkalov and Mutin (2018). If you check that<br />
publication, authors mention the following:<br />
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*Dasysyrphus nigricornis (Verrall, 1873)*<br />
= *Dasysyrphus lenensis *Bagatshanova, 1980<br />
Distribution. Sib, S Kh ? Eu, Mn.<br />
Remarks. The records of this species from the Far East [Gritskevich, 1997,<br />
1998] actually belong to a separate species that is not identical to *D.<br />
lenensis* Bagatshanova, 1980.<br />
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The same for *M. mellinum*: <a href="http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/44818">http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/44818</a><br />
In this case it is an error. The species was originally described as Musca<br />
mellina, and we do not know if mellina is a name or an adjective.<br />
Stoma, stomatos is neuter in Greek, thus mellinum is correct if it refers<br />
to an adjective. You can email Neal Evenhuis and Thomas Pape and ask them<br />
if the correct spelling should be mellinum.<br />
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But Douglas Yanega knows better and can give you a better explanation.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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El mi?, 16 sept 2026 a las 16:45, Francis Gilbert (<<br />
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> Dr Francis Gilbert<br />
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> Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham,<br />
> Nottingham NG72RD, UK<br />
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> *Emne*: Scientific names changed<br />
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> Dear all<br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
> Does anybody know why scientific names of hoverflies have been changed<br />
> lately in the Catalogue of Life? Examples are Melanostoma mellinum, now M.<br />
> mellina, and Dasysyrphus lenensis, now a synonym for D. nigricornis.<br />
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> Where were changes published?<br />
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> Best wishes<br />
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