Chrysogaster

Chrysogaster is a genus of small hoverflies in the subfamily Eristalinae. They are dark or black with shiny colourful reflections and can often be seen visiting flowers in damp marshy areas where the aquatic larvae live. Species in the related genera Melanogaster, Orthonevra, Lejogaster and Riponnensia were formerly treated as members of Chrysogaster.

==Species== Chrysogaster aerosa Loew, 1843 Chrysogaster africana Hull, 1944 Chrysogaster aliniensis Mutin, 1999 Chrysogaster antitheus Walker, 1849 Chrysogaster apicalis Bezzi, 1920 Chrysogaster atlasi Kassebeer, 1999 Chrysogaster basalis Loew, 1857 Chrysogaster cemiteriorum (Linnaeus, 1758) Chrysogaster curvistylus (Vujić & Stuke, 1998) Chrysogaster formosana Shiraki, 1930 Chrysogaster hirtella Loew, 1843 Chrysogaster inflatifrons Shannon, 1916 Chrysogaster jaroslavensis Stackelberg, 1922 Chrysogaster kirgisorum Stackelberg, 1952 Chrysogaster laevigata Bezzi, 1915 Chrysogaster lindbergi Kassebeer, 1999 Chrysogaster lucida Scopoli, 1763 Chrysogaster mediterraneus Vujić, 1999 Chrysogaster ocularia Hervé-Bazin, 1914 Chrysogaster parumplicata Loew, 1840 Chrysogaster pilocapita Hull, 1944 Chrysogaster poecilophthalma Bezzi, 1908 Chrysogaster poecilops Bezzi, 1915 Chrysogaster pollinifacies Violovitsh, 1956 Chrysogaster proserpina Hull, 1944 Chrysogaster quinquestriata Szilády, 1942 Chrysogaster rondanii Maibach & Goeldlin de Tiefenau, 1995 Chrysogaster semiopaca Matsumura, 1916 Chrysogaster simplex Loew, 1843 Chrysogaster sinensis Stackelberg, 1952 Chrysogaster solstitialis (Fallén, 1817) Chrysogaster spiloptera Bezzi, 1915 Chrysogaster stackelbergi Violovitsh, 1978 Chrysogaster tadzhikorum Stackelberg, 1952 Chrysogaster tumescens Loew, 1873 Chrysogaster virescens Loew, 1854