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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Brachyopini » Spheginina » Sphegina

Genus Sphegina

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited
hover fly - Sphegina Syrphid - Sphegina Small fly - wasp mimic - Sphegina rufiventris Sphegina sp. - Sphegina - female Fly - Sphegina flavimana - female fly - Sphegina Syrphid - Sphegina rufiventris - male Pennsylvania Fly for ID - Sphegina keeniana
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Eristalinae
Tribe Brachyopini
Subtribe Spheginina
Genus Sphegina
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Asiosphegina Stackelberg 1974
Explanation of Names
Sphegina Meigen 1822
Numbers
21 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area(1): subg. Asiosphegina | subg. Sphegina s.str.
Identification
key to eastern spp. in (2)
Habitat
Shaded parts of humid forests, near running water. Adults fly through the vegetation and visit flowers of umbellifers and some other plants at forest edge. Larvae have been found in wet, sappy material under moist bark on a living Ulmus, also under bark of water-logged branches of various deciduous trees and in sap runs on oaks & elms. Netherlands Syrphidae dead link -- please update
Print References
Hull F.M. (1935) Descriptions of new species of the genus Sphegina with a key to those known from North America (Syrphidae: Diptera). Trans. Am. ent. Soc. 61:373-382. (Full text)
Works Cited
1.Key to the genera of nearctic Syrphidae
Miranda G.F.G, Young A.D., Locke M.M., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C. 2013. Can. J. Arthropod Identification 23: 1‒351.
2.The Sphegina species of eastern North America (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Coovert G.A., Thompson F.C. 1977. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 90: 536-552.
Contributed by tom murray on 28 May, 2005 - 7:52pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 30 July, 2019 - 7:39pm

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