Biology:Spheginobaccha

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Spheginobaccha
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Spheginobaccha

Meijere, 1908
Type species
Sphegina macropoda
Bigot, 1883
Synonyms
  • Dexiosyrphus Hull, 1944

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

Larvae are found in ant nests.

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]

  • S. perialla Thompson, 1974[3]

The ruginosa group (Madagascar):

  • S. ruginosa Dirickx, 1995[5]

References

  1. 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. PMID 23798897. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01879p048.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-11. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Thompson, F.C. (1974). "The genus Spheginobaccha de Meijere (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society 100 (3): 255–287. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288826516. Retrieved 22 December 2018. 
  5. 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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