Spheginobaccha de Meijere, 1908

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), pp. 769-769 : 770

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scientific name

Spheginobaccha de Meijere, 1908
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Genus Spheginobaccha de Meijere, 1908 View in CoL View at ENA

Speginobaccha: De Meijere 1908: 327. Type-species: Sphegina macropoda Bigot 1883 , by monotypy.

The genus Spheginobaccha is a rare group of flower flies restricted to the Afrotropical and Oriental faunal regions. Nothing is known of their biology.The genus was revised by Thompson (1974) and since then, only one paper has been published on the Afrotropical species ( Dirickx 1995), in which two new species were described. Hull (1949) was the first to include the genus in the Microdontinae . Thompson (1969: 77) excluded the genus from the Microdontinae and later placed the genus in an intermediate position in the Milesinae (now Eristalinae ) (Thompson 1972). Thompson (1974: 258) placed the genus in its own tribe and as a basal clade in the subfamily Eristalinae . However, recent DNA sequence data placed the group within the subfamily Microdontinae ( Ståhls et al. 2003) and as sister to all other microdontines.

DIRICKX, H. G. 1995. Le Genre Spheginobaccha de Meijere a Madagascar (Diptera: Syrphidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 31 (2): 151 - 156.

MEIJERE, J. C. H. DE 1908. Studien uber Sudostasiatische Dipteren. III. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 51: 191 - 332, pls 7 - 8.

STAHLS, G., HIPPA, H., ROTHERAY, G. E., MUONA, J. & GILBERT, F. 2003. Phylogeny of Syrphidae (Diptera) inferred from combined analysis of molecular and morphological characters. Systematic Entomology 28: 433 - 450.

THOMPSON, F. C. 1969. A new genus of microdontine flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with notes on the placement of the subfamily. Psyche 7 (1): 74 - 85.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Spheginobaccha