Spheginobaccha

Spheginobaccha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Microdontinae
Tribe:	Spheginobacchini
Genus:	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. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
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.
3. Thompson, F.C. (1974). "The genus Spheginobaccha de Meijere (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 100 (3): 255–287. JSTOR 25078156.
4. 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.
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.