[Syrphidae] FW: Scientific names changed

[ximo mengual sanchis]

Hi Leif,

I am not aware of a publication with such changes. Catalogue of Life
receives the taxonomic information from www.diptera.org

If you do a little search there, this is what I found for *D. lenensis*:
http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/48073
Under Authority, they cite Barkalov and Mutin (2018). If you check that
publication, authors mention the following:

*Dasysyrphus nigricornis (Verrall, 1873)*
= *Dasysyrphus lenensis *Bagatshanova, 1980
Distribution. Sib, S Kh — Eu, Mn.
Remarks. The records of this species from the Far East [Gritskevich, 1997,
1998] actually belong to a separate species that is not identical to *D.
lenensis* Bagatshanova, 1980.


The same for *M. mellinum*: http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/44818
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.
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.

But Douglas Yanega knows better and can give you a better explanation.

Cheers,

Ximo

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El mié, 16 sept 2026 a las 16:45, Francis Gilbert (<
Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk>) escribió:

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> Dr Francis Gilbert
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> *Til*: "Syrphidae" <syrphidae-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Emne*: Scientific names changed
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> Dear all
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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.
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> Where were changes published?
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> Best wishes
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> Leif
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