A Check-List of Hover Flies (Diptera : Syrphidae) of Eastern Himalayas/Bulganin
Mitra, M. Mukherjee and D. Banerjee. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India,
2008, viii, 48 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-190-8. [Records of the
Zoological Survey of India : Occasional Paper No. 284].
From the Introduction: "The family Syrphidae is divided into 3 sub-families and 15 tribes and contains more than 5,500 described species in the world of which 264 species and 5 sub-species under 62 genera of 2 sub-families are reported from India. The present check-list reports 150 species of 50 genera under 15 tribes belonging to 2 sub-families of Hover Flies from the Eastern Himalayan Region of India."