New Flower Fly Records (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) from China, Korea, and Malaysia

Abstract

Abstract. New species records of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) are reported from China, South Korea, and Malaysia, as well as several new province records for Korea and China. Baccha laphrieformis Violovitsh, Episyrphus perscitus He and Chu, Eupeodes bucculatus (Rondani), Meligramma cingulata (Egger), Parasyrphus punctulatus (Verrall), Sphaerophoria indiana Bigot, and Sphaerophoria macrogaster (Thomson) are recorded from South Korea. Epistrophe aequalis (Walker) is reported from Malaysia, and Epistrophe sasayamana (Matsumura), Meliscaeva strigifrons (de Meijere), and Sphaerophoria reginae Claußen and Mutin are reported from China. The first female specimens of Epistrophe nigritibia Huo, Ren, and Zheng are documented from Zhejiang province, China.