css3menu.com

CSS JS Menu by Css3Menu.com

 

REFERENCES

  • Duke, C.V. 2006. All About Hover Flies. [online] Available from http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay07/cd-hoverflies.html [accessed 2013 November 20].
  • Eaton, E.R. and Kaufman, K. 2007. Kaufman field guide to insects of North America. HillstarEditions L.C.
  • Fluke, C.L. 1942. Revision of the Neotropical Syrphini related to Syrphus (Diptera, Syrphidae). Americam Museum Novitates 1201: 24.
  • Fluke, C.L. 1952. The Metasyrphus species of North America (Diptera, Syrphidae). . Americam Museum Novitates 1590: 28.
  • Gordh, G. and Headrick, D.H. 2001. A dictionary of entomology. Cabi.
  • Hardy DE. 1964. Insects of Hawaii. Volume 11, Diptera: Brachycera, Family Dolichopodidae, Cyclorrhapha, series Aschiza, Families Lonchopteridae, Phoridae, Pipunculidae, and Syrphidae. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Heiss, E.M. 1938. A classification of the larvae and puparia of the Syrphidae of Illinois exclusive of aquatic forms. University of Illinois Bulletin 36.
  • Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov [accessed November 2013]

  • Láska, P. and Stary, P. 1980. Prey records of aphidophagous syrphid flies from Czechoslovakia (Diptera, Syrphidae). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 77(4): 228-235.
  • Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. 2008. First phylogeny of predatory flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification. Cladistics 24(4): 543-562.
  • Miller, R.L. 1929. A contribution to the biology and control of the green citrus aphid, Aphis spiraecola Patch. Bulletin Florida Agricultural Experiment Station(203): 431-476.
  • Miranda, G.F.G., Young, A.D., Locke, M.M., Marshall, S.A., Skevington, J.H. and Thompson, F.C. 2013. Key to the Genera of Nearctic Syrphidae Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 23.
  • Rotheray, G.E., Zumbado, M., Hancock, E.G. and Thompson, F.C. 2000. Remarkable aquatic predators in the genus Ocyptamus (Diptera, Syrphidae). Studia dipterologica 7: 385-398.
  • Vockeroth, J.R. 1992. The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland: Diptera: Syrphidae. Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Barb Sharanowski for her continuous supervision and valuable guidance throughout the project phase. I am very much thankful to all the photographers for granting me permission to use their photos in this species web page. Finally, my heartfelt thanks go to my loving husband Ishan Samaranayake and my colleagues for their kind assistance and encouragement to finish this project successfully.