Eristalini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Aschiza
Superfamilia: Syrphoidea

Familia: Syrphidae
Subfamilia: Eristalinae
Tribus: Eristalini
Subtribus: Eristalina - Helophilina - Sericomyiina

Eristalini is a tribe of hoverflies. Several species are well-known honeybee mimics, such as the drone fly Eristalis tenax, while other genera such as Helophilus and Parhelophilus exhibit wasp-like patterns of yellow and black stripes, both strategies to avoid predation by visual predators such as birds.

They breed in decaying organic materials such as run-offs from dung heaps (Eristalis) or in ponds and ditches (e.g. Anasimyia). Some others, such as Myathropa and Mallota, breed in wet rotting tree stumps and rot holes.

A characteristic feature of this tribe is the "rat-tailed maggot" with a rear positioned telescopic breathing tube, allowing the larvae to breathe while living submerged in water or mud. This feature is also shared with another hoverfly tribe the Sericomyiini though those flies do not share the characteristic eristaline dip in wing vein R4+5.[1]
List of genera

Thompson[2] considers the tribe Sericomyiini a subtribe of the Eristalini while others separate it.

Subtribe: Eristalina[2]

Austalis Thompson & Vockeroth, 2003
Axona Walker, 1864
Digulia Meijere, 1913
Dissoptera Edwards, 1915
Eristalinus Róndani, 1845
Eristalis Latreille, 1804
Keda Curran, 1931
Kertesziomyia Shiraki, 1930
Lycastrirhyncha Bigot, 1859
Meromacroides Curran, 1927
Meromacrus Róndani, 1849
Palpada Macquart, 1834
Phytomia Guerin-Meneville, 1833
Senaspis Macquart, 1850
Simoides Loew, 1858
Solenaspis Osten Sacken, 1881

Subtribe: Helophilina[3]

Anasimyia Schiner, 1864
Austrophilus Thompson, 2000
Chasmomma Bezzi, 1915
Dolichogyna Macquart, 1842
Habromyia Williston, 1888[4]
Helophilus Meigen, 1822[5]
Lejops Róndani, 1857
Mallota Meigen, 1822 [5]
Mesembrius Róndani, 1857
Myathropa Róndani, 1845
Ohmyia Thompson, 1999
Parhelophilus Girschner, 1897
Quichuana Knab, 1913

References

Alan E. Stubbs & Steven J. Falk (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 284–300. ISBN 1-899935-03-7.
F. Christian Thompson (2003). "Austalis, a new genus of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with revisionary notes on related genera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 246: 1–19. ISSN 1175-5326. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-23.
F. Christian Thompson (2000). "A new genus of Australasian Flower Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae)" (PDF). Studia Dipterologica. 7 (2): 373–384. ISSN 0945-3954.
Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 15: 243–292. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. Retrieved 14 April 2019.