Talks
2022 Moran, K., Ashton, P., Skevington, J., Young, A., Mengual, X., Kelso, S. Cutting the knot: Untangling a paraphyletic Eristalinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) using phylogenomics. XXVI International Congress of Entomology. Helsinki (Finland) [Oral Presentation]
2021 Gonçalves, A.R., Vila-Viçosa, C., Grootaert, P., Andrade, R., Paulo, O., Mengual, X., Gonçalves, J. The multidimensional study of an Iberian endemism: incorporating natural history observations, evolutionary and habitat suitability patterns for the conservation of the ant-like flies. XIX Congresso Ibérico de Entomologia. Coimbra (Portugal). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Bot, S., Mengual, X., Reimann, A. The hoverflies of Georgia. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Jordaens, K., Egonyu, J.P., Mengual, X., Reemer, M., Skevington, J.H., Ståhls, G. Towards a checklist of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Uganda. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Heo, C.C., Razuin, R., Isa, M.S., Zainal, S., Khofar, N., Nazni, W.A. First record of Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) in human corpse. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Mengual, X., Fleischmann, A. New biological information on Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the sundew flower fly. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Skevington, J.H., Moran, K., Young, A.D., Mengual, X., Burt, T., Kelso, S., Jordaens, K., Ståhls, G., Bot, S., Hauser, M., van Steenis, J., Miranda, G.F.G., De Meyer, M., Ssymank, A., van Steenis, W., van Zuijen, M., Mutin, V., Reemer, M., Locke, M.M., Barkalov, A.V., Morales, M.N., Vujić, A., Palmer, C., Ichige, K., de Groot, M., Eyres, J. Phylogeny of Eristalinae using target enrichment data. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Mengual, X., López-García, G.P., Reemer, M., Debandi, G. New information on Microdon bruchi Shannon, 1927 (Diptera, Syrphidae): taxonomy, DNA barcodes, morphology of third-instar and first record in ant nests inside plants of Vitis vinifera L. from Argentina. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Kilian Salas, I.C., Kurzrock, K., Swenson, S.S., Ssymank, A., Wägele, W.J., Hamm, A., Peters, R.S., Gemeinholzer, B., Mengual, X. Assessing the role of Syrphidae as potential pollinators in agro-ecosystems via DNA-metabarcoding. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2019 Hadrava, J., Mengual, X., Skevington, J.H., MOran, K., Kelso, S., Etzbauer, C., Klečka, J. Phylogeny of genus Temnostoma Le Peletier & Serville, 1828. 10th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Mytilene (Greece). [Oral Presentation]
2018 Vlašánková, A., Padyšáková, E., Bartoš, M., Mengual, X., Janečková, P., and Janeček, Š. The relevance of short-proboscid pollinators associated with flowers with nectar spur. 9th International Congress of Dipterology. Windhoek (Namibia). [Oral Presentation]
2018 Burt, T.O., Pauli, T., Nottebrock, G., Kikowka, S., Young, A.D., Moran, K., Kelso, S., Etzbauer, C., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Jordaens, K., Ståhls, G., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Skevington, J.H., Niehuis, O., Misof, B., Mengual, X. Big data, big challenges – resolving the phylogeneticrelationships of the subfamily Syrphinae (Syrphidae) with target DNA enrichment. 9th International Congress of Dipterology. Windhoek (Namibia). [Oral Presentation]
2018 Gonçalves, A., Marabuto, E., Andrade, R., Grootaert, P., Mengual, X., Paulo, O. Integrative study of Iberian fl ightless ant fl ies (Hybotidae: Tachydromiini) unveils an overlooked diversity. 9th International Congress of Dipterology. Windhoek (Namibia). [Oral Presentation]
2018 Pauli, T., Burt, T., Bayless, K,. Meusemann, K, Wiegmann, B., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Vasilikopoulos, A., Yeates, D., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Mengual, X. Is this the end of Syrphoidea? – Flower fl ies (Syrphidae) and big-headed flies (Pipunculidae) are not sister-groups. 9th International Congress of Dipterology. Windhoek (Namibia). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Moran, K., Skevington, J.H., Mengual, X., Ståhls, G., Kelso, S., Young, A.D., Jordaens, K., Reemer, M., Bot, S., van Steenis, J., Ssymank, A., van Zuijen, M., Hauser, M., Miranda, G.F.G., van Steenis, W., Mutin, V., De Meyer, M., de Groot, M., Locke, M., Palmer, C. A multi-gene hypothesis of world flower fly (Diptera, Syrphidae) relationships. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Jordaens, K., Burt, T., De Meyer, M., De Smet, Y., Goergen, G., Kelso, S., Mengual, X., Morales, M.N., Moran, K., Radenković, S., Reemer, M., Skevington, J.H., Smit, J., Ssymank, A. , Ståhls, G., van Steenis, J., Veličković, N., Vujić, A., Whittington, A., Young, A.D. DNA barcoding of Afrotropical hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae): state-of-the-art, challenges and future perspectives. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Skevington, J.H., Moran, K., Young, A.D., Locke, M., Kelso, S., Jordaens, K., Ståhls, G., Reemer, M., Bot, S., Hauser, M., van Steenis, J., van Steenis, W., Miranda, G.F.G., Mengual, X. Using the DNA barcode database for practical purposes – case study with the Nearctic field guide. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Pauli, T., Burt, T., Bayless, K,. Meusemann, K, Wiegmann, B., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Vasilikopoulos, A., Yeates, D., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Mengual, X. The end of Syrphoidea: flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) and big-headed flies (Diptera, Pipunculidae) are not sister-groups. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Radenković, S., Vujić, A., Ståhls, G., Ðan, M., Veličković, N., Pérez-Bañón, C., Rojo, S., Ssymank, A., Mengual, X. Afrotropical species of Merodon Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae). 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Rojo, S., Pérez-Bañón, C., Mengual, X., Rojas, C., Vargas, M. Drone-flies and their rat-tailed larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae), are they entomological sheep in wolf’s clothing? 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Fleischmann, A., Rivadavia, F., Gonella, P.M., Pérez-Bañón, C., Mengual, X. and Rojo, S. Kleptoparasitism in flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae): a new larval lifestyle. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Burt, T., Pauli, T., Young, A.D., Moran, K., Skevington, J.H., Kelso, S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Petersen, M., Jordaens, K., Ståhls, G., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O., Misof, B., Mengual, X. Big data challenges: resolving the phylogenetic relationships of the subfamily Syrphinae (Diptera, Syrphidae) with anchored-hybrid enrichment. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Vlašánková, A., Padyšáková, E., Bartoš, M., Mengual, X., Janečková, P., and Janeček, Š. Spurred flowers and short-proboscid pollinators: challenging Darwin. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Oral Presentation]
2017 Young, A.D., Moran, K., Skevington, J.H., Burt, T.O., Mengual, X., Ståhls, G., Jordaens, K., Kelso, S., Norman, H., Vogler, A., Bot, S., Reemer, M., Hauser, M., van Zuijen, M., van Steenis, J., Ssymank, A., van Steenis, W., Miranda, G., Palmer, C., de Groot, M., Thompson. F.C. Flower Fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Phylogenetics in a next-gen world: what will be learned in a post-data paradigm? Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Denver (USA). [Oral Presentation]
2015 Skevington, J.H., Mengual, X., Ståhls, G., Kelso, S., Young, A.D., Jordaens, K., Reemer, M., Hauser, M., van Steenis, J., Miranda, G., van Steenis W., De Meyer, M. Syrphidae phylogenetics: An update on our efforts to create a comprehensive hypothesis of world flower fly relationships. 8th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Monschau (Alemania). [Oral Presentation]
2015 Ståhls, G., Mengual, X., Reemer, M., Morales M.N., Skevington J.H. The same old gene fragments but considerably improved taxón sampling: impact on Syrphidae phylogeny. 8th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Monschau (Alemania). [Oral Presentation]
2015 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. y Rojo, S. New insights into the Scaeva – Eupeodes evolutionary lineage. 8th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Monschau (Alemania). [Oral Presentation]
2015 Kelso, S., Skevington, J.H., Ståhls, G., Mengual, X., Jordaens K., Reemer, M. Syrphidae molecular systematics – round table discussion. 8th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Monschau (Alemania). [Oral Presentation]
2014 Rozo, P., Mengual, X. Usefulness of barcode sequences to identify mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Neotropical Region with a special emphasis in Colombia. IV Congreso Colombiano de Zoología. Cartagena (Colombia). [Oral Presentation]
2014 Mengual, X. Phylogenetic relationships of Asiobaccha Violovitsh (Diptera, Syrphidae). 8th International Congress of Dipterology. Potsdam (Germany). [Oral Presentation]
2014 Skevington, J., Mengual, X., Ståhls, G., Young, A., Hauser, M. and Kelso, S. Syrphidae Phylogenetics. 8th International Congress of Dipterology. Potsdam (Germany). [Oral Presentation]
2014 Ståhls, G., Mengual, Reemer, M. and Morales, M. The same old gene fragments: impact of considerably improved taxon sampling for Syrphidae classification. 8th International Congress of Dipterology. Potsdam (Germany). [Oral Presentation]
2013 Mengual, X. The use of the secondary structure of 28S rRNA in Syrphidae phylogenetics - Neotropical taxa as an example. Seventh International Symposium on Syrphidae. Novosibirsk (Russia). [Oral Presentation]
2013 Mengual, X. The use of the secondary structure of 28S rRNA in Syrphidae phylogenetics. CNC, Ottawa (Canada). [Oral Presentation]
2011 Mengual, X. and Thompson, F.C. Carmine cochineal killers: the flower fly genus Eosalpingogaster revised. Sixth International Symposium on Syrphidae. Glasgow (Scotland). [Oral Presentation]
2011 Mengual, X. and Thompson, F.C. Brave New World: Systematics today and tomorrow. II. Flower flies as an exemplar taxon. Sixth International Symposium on Syrphidae. Glasgow (Scotland). [Oral Presentation]
2011 Thompson, F.C. and Mengual, X. Brave New World: Systematics today and tomorrow. I. International initiatives. Sixth International Symposium on Syrphidae. Glasgow (Scotland). [Oral Presentation]
2010 Mengual, X. New insights into molecular phylogenetics of Syrphinae (Diptera: Syrphidae). 7th International Congress of Dipterology. San José (Costa Rica). [Oral Presentation]
2009 Mengual, X. and Thompson, F.C. A revision of the Allograpta-Sphaerophoria clade: new evidences from New Zealand. Fifth International Symposium on Syrphidae. Novi Sad (Serbia). [Oral Presentation]
2008 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. Molecular phylogeny of Allograpta (Diptera, Syrphidae) reveals diversity of lineages and non-monophyly of phytophagous taxa. HENNIG XXVII “A Summit of Cladistics”. Tucumán (Argentina). [Oral Presentation]
2007 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Allograpta Osten Sacken 1875 (Diptera, Syrphidae) and related genera. Fourth International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Espoo (Finland). [Oral Presentation]
2006 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. Molecular phylogenetics of Syrphinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes. HENNIG XXV “Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology”. Oaxaca (Mexico). [Oral Presentation]
2006 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. Relaciones filogenéticas de los sírfidos depredadores (Diptera: Syrphidae, Syrphinae) neotropicales basadas en caracteres moleculares. XII Congreso Ibérico de Entomología. Alicante (Spain). [Oral Presentation]
2005 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Rojo, S. Preliminary phylogeny of the predatory hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae: Syrphinae) using molecular data.Third International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Leiden (The Netherlands). [Oral Presentation]
Poster
2018 Kilian Salas, I.C., Kurzrock, K., Ssymank, A., Wägele, W.J., Hamm, A., Peters, R.S., Mengual, X. Barcoding dipteran pollinator networks in agroecosystems. 9th International Congress of Dipterology. Windhoek (Namibia). [Poster Presentation]
2018 López García, G.P., Debandi, G.O., Mengual, X., Reemer, M. Primer registro de Microdon (Chymophila) sp. (Diptera: Syrphidae) en hormigueros de Camponotus mus Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) en Vitis vinifera L. en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. X Congreso Argentino de Entomología. Mendoza (Argentina). [Poster Presentation]
2018 Heo, C.C., Razuin, R, Mengual, X, Isa, M.S., Zainal, S., Khofar, N., Nazni, W.A. Dirst record of Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) (Diptera: Syrphidae) found on human corpse in Malaysia. Flower Fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Phylogenetics in a next-gen world: what will be learned in a post-data paradigm? Seminar of the Forensic Science Society of Malaysia. Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). [Poster Presentation]
2017 Arcaya, E., Mengual, X., Morales, M.N., Pérez-Bañón, C., Rojo, R. Species of Palpada Macquart (Diptera, Syrphidae) in the Entomological Museum ‘Jose Manuel Osorio’ (MJMO), Venezuela. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Poster Presentation]
2017 Burt, T.O., Mengual, X. Origin and diversification of hoverflies: a revision of the Afrotropical Allobaccha Curran (Diptera, Syrphidae). 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Poster Presentation]
2017 López García, G.P., Mengual, X. First records of Nausigaster flukei Curran (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Argentina. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Poster Presentation]
2017 Pérez-Bañón, C., Lillo, M.I., Aznar, D., Mengual, X., Radenković, S., Vujić, A., Rojo, S. Preimaginal morphology of the South African Graptomyza signata (Walker) (Diptera, Syrphidae): first larval description and updated description of the pupae.9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Poster Presentation]
2017 Radenković, S., Vujić, A., Veličković, N., Ståhls, G., Ðan, M., Pérez-Bañón, C., Rojo, S., Jordaens, K., Mengual, X. Notes on the genus Eumerus Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Republic of South Africa. 9th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Curitiba (Brazil). [Poster Presentation]
2017 Marín-Armijos, D., Quezada-Ríos, N., Soto-Armijos, C., and Mengual, X. 2017. Listado de las moscas de las flores (Diptera: Syrphidae) del Ecuador. 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Biogeografía. Tena (Ecuador). [Poster Presentation]
2015 Mengual, X., Pérez-Bañón, C., Arcaya, E., Rojo, S. Notes about preimaginal morphology and phylogeny of Neotropical species of genus Syrphus Fabricius (Diptera, Syrphidae). 8th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Monschau (Alemania). [Poster Presentation]
2015 Mutin, V., van Steenis, W., Bot, S., Palmer, C., van Steenis, J., Skevington, J. H., Mengual, X., Merkel-Wallner, G., van Zuijen, M., Zeegers T., Ssymank, A. Syrphid fauna of Tumnin River basin (the Eastern macroslope of the Northern Sikhote- Alin). 8th International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Monschau (Alemania). [Poster Presentation]
2014 Arcaya, E., Pérez-Bañón, C., Mengual, X. and Rojo, S. Life table and efficacy of the syrphid fly Allograpta exotica (Diptera:Syrphidae), a control agent of the cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora (Hemiptera: Aphididae). 8th International Congress of Dipterology. Potsdam (Germany). [Poster Presentation]
2014 Rozo-Lopez, P. and Mengual, X. Diversity of Mosquito Species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Three Ecosystems from the Colombian Andes: Identification Through DNA Barcoding and Adult Morphology. 8th International Congress of Dipterology. Potsdam (Germany). [Poster Presentation]
2013 Arcaya, E., Mengual, X., Pérez-Bañón, C. and Rojo, S. Estudios biológicos de Allograpta exotica (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Syrphidae) alimentada con Aphis craccivora Koch (Hemiptera: Aphididae). XXIII Congreso Venezolano de Entomología "Dr. José Ramón Labrador". [Poster Presentation]
2013 Arcaya, E., Mengual, X., Pérez-Bañón, C. and Rojo, S. Listado de sírfidos depredadores (Diptera:Syrphidae:Syrphinae), presas y plantas asociadas en el estado Lara,Venezuela. XXIII Congreso Venezolano de Entomología "Dr. José Ramón Labrador". [Poster Presentation]
2011 Mengual, X. Revision of the genus Citrogramma Vockeroth. Sixth International Symposium on Syrphidae. Glasgow (Scotland). [Poster Presentation]
2008 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G., Rojo, S. and Pastor, B. Evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of tribe Toxomerini and Ocyptamus (Diptera, Syrphidae). XXIII International Congress of Entomology. Durban (South Africa). [Poster Presentation]
2007 Ståhls, G., Rojo, S., Pérez-Bañón, C., van Steenis, W. and Mengual, X. First molecular phylogeny of the Eristalini (Syrphidae). Fourth International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Espoo (Finland). [Poster Presentation]
2004 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Marcos-García, Mª. A. New molecular data on Iberian Merodon species (Diptera: Syrphidae). HENNIG XXIII “Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology”. Paris (France). [Poster Presentation]
2003 Mengual, X., Ståhls, G. and Marcos-García, Mª. A. Preliminary molecular data of Merodon species (Diptera: Syrphidae) in comparison with morphological characters. Second International Symposium on the Syrphidae. Alicante (Spain). [Poster Presentation]
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