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| Genus: | Spheginobaccha Meijere, 1908 |
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Spheginobaccha is a genus of hoverflies, with 15 known species.[1] The genus is readily separated from other microdons by the incomplete metathoracic bridge, round/oval basoflagellomere, occiput with a dorsolateral crease, and other characters.[2]
Biology
Distribution
They are native to Africa (five species) and Asia (eight species).[2]
Species
The macropoda group (Asia):[3]
- S. aethusa (Walker, 1849)
- S. chillcotti Thompson, 1974[3]
- S. demeijerei van Doesburg, 1968
- S. duplex (Walker, 1857)
- S. humeralis (Sack, 1926)
- S. knutsoni Thompson, 1974[3]
- S. lieftincki Doesburg, 1968
- S. macropoda (Bigot, 1883)
- S. melancholia Hull, 1937
- S. vandoesburgi Thompson, 1974[3]
The rotundiceps group (South Africa):[3]
- S. dexioides Hull, 1944
- S. dubia Thompson, 1974[3]
- S. pamela Thompson & Hauser, 2015[4]
- S. rotundiceps (Loew, 1857)
- S. stuckenbergi Thompson & Hauser, 2015[4]
The perialla group (Malawi):[3]
The ruginosa group (Madagascar):
- S. ruginosa Dirickx, 1995[5]
References
- ↑ Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
- 1 2 Cheng, Xin-Yue; Thompson, F. Christian (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Zootaxa. 1879: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. S2CID 4889764. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Thompson, F.C. (1974). "The genus Spheginobaccha de Meijere (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 100 (3): 255–287. JSTOR 25078156.
- 1 2 Thompson, F. Christian; Hauser, Martin (2015). "In Honor of Brian Stuckenberg: Two New Spheginobaccha Species of Flower Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Afrotropics". African Invertebrates. 56 (3): 769–777. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0318. S2CID 85980434. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ↑ Dirickx, H.G. (1995). "Le Genre Spheginobaccha de Meijere à Madagascar (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 31 (2): 151–156.
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