Genus SPHAEROPHORIA Le Peletier & Serville

Sphaerophoria Le Peletier & Serville, 1828: 513 (as subgenus of Syrphus Fabricius, 1775). Type species: Musca scripta

Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Rondani, 1845a: 458. Melithreptus Loew, 1840: 27 . Unjustified new name for Sphaerophoria Le Peletier & Serville. Melitrophus Haliday in Walker, 1856 . New name for Melithreptus Loew, 1840, a junior homonym (preoccupied by Vieillot in

Aves). Nesosyrphus Frey, 1945: 60 (as subgenus of Sphaerophoria Le Peletier & Serville, 1828). Type species: Sphaerophoria nigra

Frey, 1945, by original designation.