<div dir="auto" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you, Mengual, for your reply.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I will contact some of the people mentioned.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dasysyrphus lenensis was found for the first time this year in Denmark. If this species is the same as D. nigricornis, we have a problem. D. nigricornis was on the list of Danish species and then changed to D. pauxillus.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I also think M. mellina is an error. We have a discussion in Denmark as to whether a another new species of this year is M. mellarius or  mellarium. I think the first is correct, as it is a noun and therefore does not depend the gender of Melanostoma.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cheers</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leif</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div id="delaySignature" contenteditable="false" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr id="previousmessagehr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Fra</strong>: "ximo mengual sanchis" <xmengual@gmail.com><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sendt</strong>: 16/09/2026 16.59<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Til</strong>: "syrphidae@nottingham.ac.uk" <syrphidae@nottingham.ac.uk>,"Leif Bloss Carstensen" <lasiopa@bknet.dk><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Emne</strong>: Re: [Syrphidae] FW: Scientific names changed<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hi Leif,</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am not aware of a publication with such changes. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Catalogue of Life receives the taxonomic information from <a href="http://www.diptera.org" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.diptera.org</a></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">If you do a little search there, this is what I found for <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">D. lenensis</em>: </span><a href="http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/48073" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/48073</a></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Under Authority, they cite Barkalov and Mutin (2018). If you check that publication, authors mention the following:</span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dasysyrphus nigricornis </em>(Verrall, 1873)</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">= <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dasysyrphus lenensis </em>Bagatshanova, 1980<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Distribution. Sib, S Kh — Eu, Mn.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remarks. The records of this species from the Far East [Gritskevich, 1997, 1998] actually belong to a separate species that is not identical to <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">D. lenensis</strong></em> Bagatshanova, 1980.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">The same for <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">M. mellinum</em>: </span><a href="http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/44818" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/44818</a></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this case it is an error. The species was originally described as Musca mellina, and we do not know if mellina is a name or an adjective.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stoma, stomatos is neuter in Greek, thus mellinum is correct if it refers to an adjective. You can email Neal Evenhuis and Thomas Pape and ask them if the correct spelling should be mellinum.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">But Douglas Yanega knows better and can give you a better explanation.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cheers,</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ximo</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="gmail_signature" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">********************************************************<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" size="2" fr-original-style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Ximo Mengual<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Head of the Diptera Section<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></font><font style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" fr-original-style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Museum Koenig Bonn - LIB</font></font></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="2" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adenauerallee 127 • 53113 Bonn, Germany</font></font></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: bord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<a href="https://www-web.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:rgb(70,120,134);">https://www-web.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/</span></a></span></p></div><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><div align="center" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="text-align:center;" fr-original-class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" id="m_-1046545332809427414previousmessagehr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Fra</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">:
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<strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Sendt</span></strong>: 16/09/2026 10.44<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Til</span></strong>: "Syrphidae" <<a href="mailto:syrphidae-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">syrphidae-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Emne</span></strong>: Scientific names changed<br style="box-sizing:border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;">
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</span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Dear all</span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">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.</span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Where were changes published?</span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Best wishes</span></p></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" fr-original-class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Leif</span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Syrphidae mailing list<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="mailto:Syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae" rel="noreferrer" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae</a></div></blockquote></div></div>