Eristalini

Eristalini is a tribe of hoverflies. Several species are well-known honeybee mimics, such as the drone fly Eristalis tenax, while other genera such as Helophilus and Parhelophilus exhibit wasp-like patterns of yellow and black stripes, both strategies to avoid predation by visual predators such as birds.
They breed in decaying organic materials such as run-offs from dung heaps or in ponds and ditches. Some others, such as Myathropa and Mallota, breed in wet rotting tree stumps and rot holes.
A characteristic feature of this tribe is the "rat-tailed maggot" with a rear positioned telescopic breathing tube, allowing the larvae to breathe while living submerged in water or mud. This feature is also shared with another hoverfly tribe the Sericomyiini though those flies do not share the characteristic eristaline dip in wing vein R4+5.

List of genera

Thompson considers the tribe Sericomyiini a subtribe of the Eristalini while others separate it.
Subtribe: EristalinaAustalis Thompson & Vockeroth, 2003Axona Walker, 1864Digulia Meijere, 1913Dissoptera Edwards, 1915Eristalinus Rondani, 1845 Eristalis Latreille, 1804 Keda Curran, 1931Kertesziomyia Shiraki, 1930 Lycastrirhyncha Bigot, 1859Meromacroides Curran, 1927Meromacrus Rondani, 1849Palpada Macquart, 1834Phytomia Guerin-Meneville, 1833Senaspis Macquart, 1850Simoides Loew, 1858Solenaspis Osten Sacken, 1881
Subtribe: HelophilinaAnasimyia Schiner, 1864 Austrophilus Thompson, 2000Chasmomma Bezzi, 1915Dolichogyna Macquart, 1842Habromyia Williston, 1888Helophilus Meigen, 1822Lejops Rondani, 1857 Mallota Meigen, 1822 Mesembrius Rondani, 1857Myathropa Rondani, 1845Ohmyia Thompson, 1999Parhelophilus Girschner, 1897Quichuana Knab, 1913