[Syrphidae] Syrphidae Digest, Vol 235, Issue 3

Wed Sep 16 21:17:02 BST 2026

Dear all,
I know only situation around D. lenensis. Dasysyrphus lenensis was synonymized with D. nigricornis by Anatolyi Barkalov in his paper: 
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
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.

With best wishes
Libor
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 Dear all

 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.

 Where were changes published?

 Best wishes
 Leif
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 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 <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 <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 mi?, 16 sept 2026 a las 16:45, Francis Gilbert (<
 Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk>) escribi?:

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 > Dr Francis Gilbert
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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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