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The Natural History Museum in Vienna (NHMW) hosts 551 types of 244 syrphid species; the type status of the specimens of three species is unclear. Further, there are 12 species, of which the type specimen(s) should be in the NHMW, but were not found. Specimens of nine species are marked as types or mentioned in the literature as types, but the type status could not be confirmed. Of the 244 species, 143 belong to the subfamily Eristalinae, 74 species to Syrphinae, 16 species to Pipizinae and 11 species to Microdontinae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the unsorted materials of the Natural History Museum Vienna, a new species of the E. striata group from West Malaysia was detected and is described under the name Echinopla lateropilosa sp.n. From Carlo Emery's collection in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova, the holotype of Echinopla rugosa André, 1892 is redescribed and a paralectotype of Echinopla senilis Mayr, 1862 was rediscovered. In addition, Echinopla cherapunjiensis Bharti & Gul, 2012 is recorded from Myanmar for the first time, and a new record of Echinopla tritschleri Forel, 1901 is published from Perak in West Malaysia. The species-group system by Xu & Zhou (2015) is updated to include recently described species and a key to the species of the E. serrata group occurring west of Weber's Line is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]