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Brachystoma Meigen 1822

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, Mécanismes adaptatifs et évolution, UMR 7179 MNHN-CNRS MECADEV, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
  • 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium)

Description

Genus Brachystoma Meigen, 1822

Brachystoma Meigen, 1822: 12.

TYPE SPECIES. — Syrphus vesiculosus Fabricius, 1794, designation Blanchard 1840: 582.

ETYMOLOGY. — Brachystoma is a combination of ‘ΒΡαχύς = brachy’, Greek meaning short and ‘στόμα = stoma’, Greek meaning mouth. The gender is neutral.

Notes

Published as part of Chabot, Noé Barbier, Christophe, Patrick Grootaert & Daugeron, Christophe, 2025, A review of the genus Brachystoma Meigen, 1822 in Europe (Diptera, Brachystomatidae) with a discussion of possible oviposition behaviour, pp. 413-423 in Zoosystema 47 (20) on page 415, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a20, http://zenodo.org/record/17098220

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ABAC7BFFCD942AFE82FDE7FE8C37BB

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a20 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17098220 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF92D403FFC9942EFF8DFF91FFD5342A (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C9898192-8340-48B7-8B41-FE97364F4513 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03ABAC7BFFCD942AFE82FDE7FE8C37BB (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/294302865 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/312237/taxon/03ABAC7BFFCD942AFE82FDE7FE8C37BB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Empididae
Genus
Brachystoma
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Brachystoma Meigen, 1822 sec. Chabot, Christophe & Daugeron, 2025

References

  • MEIGEN J. W. 1822. - Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaische und zweiflugeligen Insekten. Dritter Theil. Schulz- Wundermann, Hamm.
  • FABRICIUS O. 1794. - Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Impensis C. Gottlob Proft, Hafniae (= Copenhagen).
  • BLANCHARD E. 1840. - Histoire naturelle des animaux articules, Annelides, Crustaces, Arachnides, Myriapodes et Insectes. Tome 3: Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthopteres, Nevropteres, Hemipteres, Hymenopteres, Lepidopteres et Dipteres. Dumenil, Paris. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.59226