Summary description from Wikipedia:

Melangyna in languages:

English

Halfbands

Finnish

metsäkirvarit

Hungarian

tavaszilegyek

Japanese

マツモンホソヒラタアブ属

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Parent Taxon

• Syrphidae

Sibling Taxa

• Afrosyrphus
• Allobaccha
• Allograpta
• Antillus
• Anu
• Asarkina
• Asiobaccha
• Asiodidea
• Atylobaccha
• Austroscaeva
• Betasyrphus
• Calostigma
• Chrysotoxum
• Citrogramma
• Dasysyrphus
• Didea
• Dideoides
• Dideomima
• Dideopsis
• Dioprosopa
• Doros
• Eosalpingogaster
• Eosphaerophoria
• Epistrophe
• Epistrophella
• Episyrphus
• Eriozona
• Eupeodes
• Exallandra
• Fazia
• Flavizona
• Fragosa
• Giluwea
• Hybobathus
• Hypocritanus
• Ischiodon
• Lapposyrphus
• Leucozona
• Maiana
• Megasyrphus
• Melangyna
• Meligramma
• Meliscaeva
• Mimocalla
• Nuntianus
• Ocyptamus
• Orphnabaccha
• Paragus
• Parasyrphus
• Pelecinobaccha
• Philhelius
• Pipunculosyrphus
• Pseudodoros
• Pseudoscaeva
• Relictanum
• Rhinobaccha
• Rhinoprosopa
• Salpingogaster
• Scaeva
• Simosyrphus
• Sphaerophoria
• Syrphus
• Toxomerus
• Victoriana
• Xanthogramma

Child Taxa

• Austrosyrphus
• Melangyna
• Melanosyrphus

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