Sphyracephala
| Sphyracephala | |
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| Sphyracephala hearseiana, Udaipur, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Diopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Diopsinae |
| Genus: | Sphyracephala Say, 1828 |
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Sphyracephala is a genus of stalk-eyed flies in the family Diopsidae,[1] with records from Africa, Europe, Asia and N. America.[2]
Flies are commonly found on leaves and stem of trees and plants along streams and rivers. Very large clusters of Sphyracephala are known with clusters numbering over 100,000 individual flies, with roughly half being males.[3]
This genus resembles the presumed extinct genus Prosphyracephala, known from Baltic amber.
Species
[edit]BioLib and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists[2] the following species with the modifications of the recent taxonomic revision of the group.[4]
- Sphyracephala babadjanidesi Zaitzev, 1919[1][4]
- Sphyracephala beccarii (Rondani, 1873)
- Sphyracephala bipunctipennis Senior-White, 1922
- Sphyracephala brevicornis (Say, 1817)
- Sphyracephala detrahens Walker, 1860
- Sphyracephala hearseiana (Westwood, 1845)
- Sphyracephala munroi Curran, 1928
- Sphyracephala nigrimana Loew, 1873
- Sphyracephala subbifasciata Fitch, 1855
References
[edit]- ^ a b Papp, L; Földvári, M (1997). "Sphyracephala europaea sp. n. (Diptera: Diopsidae) from Hungary represents a family new to Europe" (PDF). Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 58. Hungary: 137–146. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ a b Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Sphyracephala Say, 1828 (retrieved 23 March 2024)
- ^ Feijen, Hans R.; Martin, Ralph; Feijen, Cobi (2017-11-30). "The occurrence of stalk-eyed flies (Diptera, Diopsidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with a review of cluster formation in the Diopsidae". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 160 (2): 75–88. doi:10.1163/22119434-00002065. ISSN 2211-9434.
- ^ a b Feijen, Hans R.; Feijen, Frida A. A.; Feijen, Cobi (2025-06-10). "A revision of the four Afrotropical and Palaearctic Sphyracephala Say (Diptera, Diopsidae) with an illustrated overview of the other five Sphyracephala". ZooKeys (1241): 1–81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1241.151490. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 12177517.