[Syrphidae] Syrphidae Digest, Vol 235, Issue 3

Thu Sep 17 16:40:51 BST 2026

We hope that the Taxo-Fly we will be publicly available before the end of
the year.

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El jue, 17 sept 2026, 3:06 p. m., lasiopa at bknet.dk <lasiopa at bknet.dk>
escribió:

> Thank you for your explanation, Libor. I will await his publication and
> use D. lenensis as a valid species until we know its status.
>
> Where can I see the results of TaxoFly?
>
> Best regards
> Leif
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> *Sendt*: 16/09/2026 22.17
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> *Emne*: Re: [Syrphidae] Syrphidae Digest, Vol 235, Issue 3
>
> 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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>   1. FW: Scientific names changed (Francis Gilbert)
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> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:45:14 +0000
> From: Francis Gilbert <Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: "syrphidae at nottingham.ac.uk" <syrphidae at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Syrphidae] FW: Scientific names changed
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> Dr Francis Gilbert
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> Emne: Scientific names changed
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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?
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> Best wishes
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> From: ximo mengual sanchis <xmengual at gmail.com>
> To: "syrphidae at nottingham.ac.uk" <syrphidae at nottingham.ac.uk>, Leif
> Bloss Carstensen <lasiopa at bknet.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Syrphidae] FW: Scientific names changed
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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
> 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 mi?, 16 sept 2026 a las 16:45, Francis Gilbert (<
> Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk>) escribi?:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr Francis Gilbert
> >
> > Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham,
> > Nottingham NG72RD, UK
> >
> > website: https://www-web.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/
> >
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> > *Fra*: lasiopa at bknet.dk
> > *Sendt*: 16/09/2026 10.44
> > *Til*: "Syrphidae" <syrphidae-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> > *Emne*: Scientific names changed
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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