Genus Eristalis Latreille, 1804

Tubifera Meigen, 1800: 34 . Type-species, Musca tenax Linnaeus (Coquillett, 1910: 618) . Suppressed by I.C.Z.N 1863: 339. Elophilus Meigen, 1803: 274 . Type-species, Musca tenax Linnaeus (Latreille, 1810: 443) . Suppressed by I.C.Z.N 1893: 256. Eristalis Latreille, 1804: 194 . Type-species, Musca tenax Linnaeus (Subs. desc. by Curtis, 1832: 432). Refs. Thompson et al.

1976: 101; Thompson, 1972b: 139–140 (desc.); Thompson, 1981: 145 (taxonomic notes); Thompson, 1997: 209–237 (key, desc. notes and syn.); Thompson, 1999a: 330 (key); Thompson, 2003: 4, 11 (key, syn. and taxonomic notes).

Helophilus Leach, 1817: 159, emend. of Elophilus . Cristalis Wiedemann, 1828: 10. Misspelling. Eristaloides Rondani, 1845: 453 . Type-species, Musca tenax Linnaeus (Coquillett, 1910: 540) . Eristalomyia Rondani, 1857: 38 . Type-species, Musca tenax Linnaeus (orig. des.). Eriops Lioy, 1864: 743 (Preocc. Klug, 1808) . Type-species, Musca tenax Linnaeus (Subs. des. by Goffe, 1946: 29). Eristalomyia Scudder, 1882: 127, emend. of Eristalomya .

Subgenus Eristalis Latreille, 1804