Brachyopa

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Brachyopa scutellaris, North Wales, May 2014 (16897213183).jpg

| image_caption = Brachyopa scutellaris museum specimen

| image2 = Brachyopa spp.jpg

| image2_caption = Brachyopa sp.

| taxon = Brachyopa

| authority = Meigen, 1822{{cite book |last1=Meigen |first1=Johann Wilhelm |title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten |date=1822 |publisher=Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann |location=Hamm |pages=x, 416, pls. 22–32 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=14 April 2019}}

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| type_species = Musca conica

| type_species_authority = Panzer, 1798{{cite book |last1=Panzer |first1=G.W.F. |title=Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia oder Devtschlands Insecten. H. 60 |date=1798 |publisher=Felsecker |location=Nurnberg [= Nuremberg] |pages=24 pp., 24 pls}}

| synonyms = *Barachopa Woodworth, 1913{{cite book |last1=Woodworth |first1=C.W. |title=Guide to California insects |date=1913 |publisher=The Law Press |location=Berkeley |pages=360 p |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105315#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=10 July 2021}}

  • Brachiopa Newman, 1834{{cite journal |last1=Newman |first1=E. |title=Attempted division of British insects into natural orders |journal=The Entomological Magazine |date=1834 |volume=2 |pages=379–431 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8980527#page/405/mode/1up |access-date=10 November 2021}}
  • Brachiopa Rondani, 1844{{cite journal |last1=Rondani |first1=C. |title=Ordinamento sistematico dei generi italiani degli insetti ditteri [part]. |journal=Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna 1844 |date=1844 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=443–459}}

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Brachyopa is a Holarctic genus of hoverflies{{cite book |last=Stubbs |first=Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide |edition=2nd |year=1983 |publisher=British Entomological and Natural History Society |location=London |isbn=1-899935-03-7 |pages=253, xvpp }}{{cite book |last=Ball |first=S.G. |author2=Morris, R.K.A. |title=Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) |year=2000 |publisher=Biological Record Centre |location=Monks Wood, UK |isbn=1-870393-54-6 |pages=167 pages }}{{cite book |last= Veen |first= M.P. van |title= Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae |type= Hardback |year= 2004 |publisher= KNNV Publishing |location= Utrecht |isbn= 90-5011-199-8 |pages= 254 }} whose grey and brown colouration is unusual for this family and these flies can easily be overlooked amongst members of other fly families. The larvae can be found under the bark of dead branches and trees in decaying sap.

Species

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Subgenus: Brachyopa

  • Brachyopa atlantea Kassebeer, 2000{{cite journal |last1=Kassebeer |first1=C.F. |title=Eine neue Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) aus dem Atlas. |journal=Beiträge zur Schwebfliegenfauna Marokko X Dipteron |date=2000 |volume=3 |pages=141–148}}
  • Brachyopa bicolor (Fallén, 1817){{cite book |last1=Fallen |first1=Carl Fredrik |title=Syrphici Sveciae |date=1817|publisher=Berlingianis |location=Lundae [= Lund] |pages=31–42}}{{cite journal| last1 = De Courcy Williams| first1 = Michael E.| last2 = Toussidou| first2 = Menia| last3 = Speight | first3 = Martin C.D.|date=December 2011| title = Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) new to Greece from Rhodope Mountains of Thrace and eastern Macedonia including Simosyrphus scutellaris new to Europe| journal = Dipterists Digest| volume = 18| issue = 2| series = Second Series| pages = 181–198| publisher = Dipterists Forum| type = Print| issn = 0953-7260}}
  • Brachyopa bimaculosa Doczkal & Dziock, 2004{{cite journal |last1=Doczkal |first1=D. |last2=Dziock |first2=F. |title=Two new species of Brachyopa Meigen from Germany, with notes on B. grunewaldensis Kassebeer (Diptera, Syrphidae) |journal=Volucella |date=2004 |volume=7 |pages=35–59 |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Volucella_7_0035-0059.pdf |access-date=11 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa caesariata Moran & Skevington, 2019{{cite journal |last1=Skevington |first1=J.H. |last2=Young |first2=A.D. |last3=Locke |first3=M.M. |last4=Moran |first4=K.M. |title=New Syrphidae (Diptera) of north-eastern North America |journal=Biodiversity Data Journal |date=2019 |volume=7 |pages=e36673 |doi=10.3897/BDJ.7.e36673 |pmid=31543695 |pmc=6736894 |doi-access=free }}
  • Brachyopa cinerea Wahlberg, 1844{{cite journal |last1=Wahlberg |first1=P.F. |title=Nya Diptera fran Norrbotten och Lulea Lappmark |journal=Ofvers. K. VetensAkad. Forh.Stockholm |date=1844 |volume=1 |pages=64–68}}
  • Brachyopa cinereovittata Bigot, 1884{{cite journal |last1=Bigot |first1=Jacques-Marie-Frangile |title=Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 22e partie, XXXII: Syrphidi (2e partie). espèces nouvelles, No 1er |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |date=1884 |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=315–356 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32548743#page/319/mode/1up |access-date=24 July 2021}}
  • Brachyopa cruriscutum Steenis & Steenis, 2014{{cite journal |last1=Steenis |first1=J. van |last2=Steenis |first2=W. van |title=Two new West-Palaearctic species of Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) with description and records of additional European Species |journal=Norwegian Journal of Entomology |date=2014 |volume=61 |pages=42–52 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267837064 |access-date=13 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa cummingi Moran & Skevington, 2019
  • Brachyopa cynops Snow, 1892{{cite journal |last1=Snow |first1=W.A. |title=Notes and descriptions of Syrphidae |journal=The Kansas University Quarterly |date=1892 |volume=1 |pages=33–38, 1 pl}}{{cite journal |last=Curran |first=Howard |year=1922 |title=The Syrphid Genera Hammerschmidtia and Brachyopa in Canada. |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=239–255 |doi=10.1093/aesa/15.3.239 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12253163#page/257/mode/1up|doi-access=free }}
  • Brachyopa daeckei Johnson, 1917{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=C.W. |title=Species of the genus Brachyopa of the eastern United States (Diptera) |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |date=1917 |volume=49 |issue=10 |pages=360–362 |doi=10.4039/Ent49360-10 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3088308#page/388/mode/1up |access-date=10 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa diversa Johnson, 1917
  • Brachyopa dorsata Zetterstedt, 1837{{cite journal |last1=Zetterstedt |first1=J. W. |title=Conspectus familiarum, generum et specierum dipterorum, in fauna insectorum Lapponica descriptorum |journal=Isis (Oken's) |date=1837 |volume=21 |pages=28–67}}
  • Brachyopa exigua Steenis, 2015{{cite journal |last1=Steenis |first1=J. van |title=The first Oriental species of the genus Brachyopa Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae), with a discussion on the Syrphidae fauna of thlle Indo-Malayan transition Zone |journal=Studia Dipterologica |date=2015 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=293–300}}
  • Brachyopa flavescens Shannon, 1915{{cite journal |last1=Shannon |first1=R.C. |title=A new eastern Brachyopa (Diptera, Syrphidae) |journal=Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus |date=1915 |volume=3 |pages=144–145 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8221374#page/168/mode/1up |access-date=10 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa gigas Lovett, 1919{{cite journal |last1=Cole |first1=F. |last2=Lovett |first2=A. L. |title=New Oregon Diptera |journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |series=4th series |date=1919 |volume=9 |pages=221–255 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26463358#page/293/mode/1up |access-date=3 August 2021}}
  • Brachyopa grunewaldensis Kassebeer, 2000
  • Brachyopa insensilis Collin, 1939{{cite journal |last1=Collin |first1=J.E. |title=Notes on Syrphidae (Diptera). III. |journal=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |date=1939 |volume=75 |pages=104–109}}
  • Brachyopa maculipennis Thompson, 1980{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=F.C. |title=The problem of old names as illustrated by Brachyopa conica Panzer with a synopsis of the Palaearctic species of Brachyopa |journal=Entomologica Scandinavica |date=1980 |volume=11 |pages=209–216 |doi=10.1163/187631280X00527 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/17075/ent_FCT_37.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=11 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa maritima Violovitsh, 1980{{cite journal |last1=Violovitsh |first1=N.A. |title=New species of flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of the Palaearctic fauna |journal=Nov. Mal. Vidy Faun. Sibir. |date=1980 |volume=14 |pages=124–131 |language=Russian}}{{cite web |first = A.V |last = Barkalov |title = Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum |url = http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |publisher = the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences |location = Novosibirsk, Russia |access-date = 28 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |archive-date=20 October 2008}}
  • Brachyopa media Williston, 1882{{cite journal |last1=Williston |first1=Samuel Wendell |title=Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae |journal=Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. |date=1882 |volume=20 |issue=112 |pages=299–332 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26892329#page/311/mode/1up |access-date=23 July 2021}}
  • Brachyopa minima Vujic & Pérez-Bañón, 2016{{cite journal |last1=Perez-Banon |first1=C. |last2=Radenkovic |first2=S. |last3=Vujic |first3=A. |last4=Petanidou |first4=T. |title=Brachyopa minima (Diptera: Syrphidae), a new species for, Greece with notes on the biodiversity and conservation of the genus Brachyopa Meigen in the northern Aegean Islands |journal=Zootaxa |date=2016 |volume=4072 |issue=2 |pages=217–234 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.5 |pmid=27395920 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292176439 |access-date=13 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa notata Osten Sacken, 1875{{cite journal |last1=Osten Sacken |first1=Carl Robert |title=A list of the North American Syrphidae |journal=Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. |date=1875 |volume=3 |pages=38–71 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/65240#page/54/mode/1up |access-date=11 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa obscura Thompson & Torp, 1982{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=F.C. |last2=Torp |first2=E. |title=Two new palaearctic Syrphidae(Diptera) |journal=Entomologica Scandinavica |date=1982 |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=441–444 |doi=10.1163/187631282X00282 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/17481/ent_FCT_46.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=13 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa ornamentosa Violovitsh, 1977{{cite journal |last1=Violovitsh |first1=N.A. |title=Some new Palaearctic species of hover flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) |journal=Novye i Maloizvestnye Vidy Fauny Sibiri |date=1977 |volume=11 |pages=68–84 |language=Russian}}
  • Brachyopa panzeri Goffe, 1945{{cite journal |last1=Goffe |first1=E.R. |title=Note on the type-species of some genera of Syrphidae (Diptera) |journal=J. Soc. Br. Ent. |date=1945 |volume=2 |pages=276–279}}
  • Brachyopa paradoxa Krivosheina, 2004{{cite journal |last1=Krivosheina |first1=N.P. |title=A review of species of the genus Brachyopa (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Russia with description of new species from Tajikistan |journal=Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal |date=2004 |volume=83 |issue=5 |pages=597–603}}
  • Brachyopa perplexa Curran, 1922{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=C.H. |title=New and little-known Canadian Syrphidae (Diptera) [concl.] |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |date=1922 |volume=54 |pages=117–119 |doi=10.4039/Ent54117-5 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27828012#page/125/mode/1up |access-date=11 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa pilosa Collin, 1939
  • Brachyopa pivanica Mutin, 1984{{cite journal |last1=Mutin |first1=V.A. |title=New and little known species of flower-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the south of the Far-East |journal=Nov Maloizvestiye Vidy Fauny Sib |date=1984 |volume=17 |pages=100–106 |language=Russian}}
  • Brachyopa plena Collin, 1939
  • Brachyopa primorica Mutin, 1998{{cite journal |last1=Mutin |first1=V.A. |title=New data on the genus Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Russian Far East. |journal=Far East. Ent. |date=1998 |volume=65 |pages=9}}
  • Brachyopa punctipennis Curran, 1925{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=Charles Howard |title=Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico |journal=The Kansas University Science Bulletin. |date=1925 |volume=15 |pages=7–216 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4391303#page/15/mode/1up |access-date=11 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa quadrimaculosa Thompson, 1981{{cite journal |last1=Kaplan |first1=M. |last2=Thompson |first2=F.C. |title=New Syrphidae from Israel (Diptera). |journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |date=1981 |volume=83 |pages=198–212 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/17476/ent_FCT_38.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=13 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa rufiabdominalis Jones, 1917{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=C.R. |title=New species of Colorado Syrphidae |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |date=1917 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=219–231 |doi=10.1093/aesa/10.2.219 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11926507#page/223/mode/1up |access-date=13 November 2021}}
  • Brachyopa scutellaris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1843{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=J.B. |title=[Sociétés Savantes]: M. Saint-Martin ... donne lecture à un mémoire de Robineau-Desvoidy intitulé: Études sur les myodaires des environs de Paris |journal=Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne |date=1843 |volume=6 |pages=317}}
  • Brachyopa silviae Doczkal & Dziock, 2004
  • Brachyopa stackelbergi Krivosheina, 2004
  • Brachyopa tabarkensis Kassebeer, 2002{{cite journal |last1=Kassebeer |first1=C.F. |title=Eine weitere Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) aus Tunesien |journal=Dipteron |date=2002 |volume=4 |pages=201–208}}
  • Brachyopa testacea (Fallén, 1817){{cite book |last1=Fallen |first1=C.F. |title=Syrphici Sveciae |date=1816 |publisher=Berlingianis |location=Lundae [= Lund] |pages=1–30}}
  • Brachyopa tianzhuensis Li & Li, 1990{{cite book |last1=Li |first1=Z.H. |last2=Li |first2=Y.Z. |title=The Syrphide of gansu Province |date=1990 |publisher=China Protect Press |location=Beijing |pages=127}}
  • Brachyopa vacua Osten Sacken, 1875
  • Brachyopa vernalis Steenis & Steenis, 2014
  • Brachyopa violovitshi Mutin, 1985{{cite book |last1=Mutin |first1=V.A. |title=New information on Syrphidae from the Far East. pp. 85–89. In Ler, P.A.; Storozhenko, S.Yu. [Eds]. |publisher=Taxonomy and ecology of arthropods from the Far East. Far Eastern Scientific Centre |date=1985 |location=Vladivostok |pages=132}}
  • Brachyopa vittata Zetterstedt, 1843{{cite book |last1=Zetterstedt |first1=J.W. |title=Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descipta. Tomus octavus seu supplementum, continens conspectum synopticum familiarium, generum et specierum, addenda, corrigenda et emendata tomis septtem prioribus. |date=1843 |publisher=Officina Lundbergiana |location=Lundae [= Lund.] |pages=441–894}}
  • Brachyopa zhelochovtsevi Mutin, 1998

Subgenus: Trichobrachyopa

  • Brachyopa tristis Kassebeer, 2001{{cite journal |last1=Kassebeer |first1=C.F. |title=Uber eine ungewohnliche Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) aus Tunesien |journal=Dipteron |date=2001 |volume=4 |pages=37–42}}

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