Allograpta

Genus of flies

Allograpta
Allograpta obliqua male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Tribe: Syrphini
Genus: Allograpta
Osten Sacken, 1875[1]
Type species
Scaeva obliqua
Say, 1823
Subgenera
  • Allograpta Osten Sacken, 1875
  • Antillus Vockeroth, 1969
  • Claraplumula Shannon, 1927
  • Rhinoprosopa Hull, 1942[1]
  • Tiquicia Thompson, 2012
Synonyms
  • Miogramma Frey, 1946[2]
  • Neoscaeva Frey, 1946
  • Helenomyia Bankowska, 1962
  • Paraxanthogramma Tao & Chiu, 1971 (Unav.)
  • Costarica Mengual & Thompson, 2009 (Homonym)

Allograpta is a very large and diverse genus of hoverflies present throughout the world except most of the palearctic region. The adults are brightly coloured flower pollinators and most larvae have a predatory feeding mode involving soft-bodied sternorrhynchans. Certain species have diverged from this and their larvae have been found to be leaf-miners, stem-borers or pollen-feeders.[3]

Allograpta is currently being studied using both molecular and morphological methods to produce a robust phylogeny of the genus and its related genera. Preliminary studies show the genus to be monophyletic with the genera Sphaerophoria and Exallandra placed within which obviously complicates matters. A more complete review is needed before any major taxonomic changes can occur i.e. splitting the genus up or incorporating related genera,[1][4] though the former subgenus Fazia was elevated to genus in 2020.[5]

List of species by subgenus or species group

Subgenus Allograpta Osten Sacken, 1875

Allograpta obliqua species group

(Afrotropical)

  • A. borbonica Kassebeer, 2000
  • A. calopoides (Curran, 1938)[2]
  • A. calopus (Loew, 1858)[2]
  • A. fuscotibialis (Macquart, 1842)[2]
  • A. hypoxantha (Bezzi, 1923)[2]
  • A. nasuta (Macquart, 1842)[2]
  • A. nigra (Keiser, 1971)[2]
  • A. nummularia (Bezzi, 1920)[2]
  • A. phaeoptera (Bezzi, 1920)[2]
  • A. rediviva (Bezzi, 1915)[2]
  • A. rufifacies (Keiser, 1971)[2]
  • A. tenella (Keiser, 1971)[2]
  • A. varipes (Curran, 1927)[2]

(Oriental & Palearctic)

(Australasia & Oceania)

  • A. amphoterum (Bezzi, 1928)
  • A. atkinsoni (Miller, 1921)
  • A. australensis (Schiner, 1868)
  • A. buruensis Meijere, 1929
  • A. citronella (Shiraki, 1963)
  • A. distincta (Kertész, 1899)
  • A. flavofaciens (Miller, 1921)
  • A. hirsutifera (Hull, 1949)
  • A. hudsoni (Miller, 1921)
  • A. longulus (Shiraki, 1963)
  • A. neofasciata Thompson, 1989
  • A. pallida (Bigot, 1884)
  • A. pseudoropalus (Miller, 1921)
  • A. ropalus (Walker, 1849)
  • A. septemvittata (Shiraki, 1963)

(Nearctic & Neotropical)

  • A. aeruginosifrons (Schiner, 1868)
  • A. annulipes (Macquart, 1850)
  • A. aperta Fluke, 1942
  • A. bilineella Enderlein, 1938
  • A. browni Fluke, 1942
  • A. exotica (Wiedemann, )[3]
  • A. falcata Fluke, 1942
  • A. hastata Fluke, 1942
  • A. hortensis (Pjilippi, 1865)
  • A. insularis Thompson, 1981
  • A. limbata (Fabricius, 1805)
  • A. neotropica Curran, 1936[6]
  • A. nigripilosa (Hull, 1944)
  • A. obliqua (Say, 1823)
  • A. obscuricornis (Meijere, 1914)
  • A. philippina (Frey, 1946)
  • A. piurana Shannon, 1927
  • A. pulchra Shannon, 1927
  • A. radiata Bigot, 1857
  • A. robinsoniana Enderlein, 1938
  • A. splendens (Thomson, 1869)
  • A. tectiforma Fluke, 1942
  • A. teligera Fluke, 1942
  • A. trilimbata Bigot, 1889

Allograpta alamacula species group

  • A. alamacula Carver, 2003

Allograpta ventralis species group

  • A. dorsalis (Miller, 1924)
  • A. ventralis (Miller, 1921)

Subgenus Antillus Vockeroth, 1969

  • A. ascita (Vockeroth, 1969)

Subgenus Claraplumula Shannon, 1927

  • A. latifacies (Shannon, 1927)

Subgenus Rhinoprosopa Hull, 1942

  • A. aenea (Hull, 1937)
  • A. flavophylla (Hull, 1943)
  • A. lucifera (Hull, 1943)
  • A. neonasuta Thompson,
  • A. sycorax (Hull, 1947)

Subgenus Tiquicia Thompson, 2012

  • A. zumbadoi Thompson, 2000
  • A. nishida Mengual & Thompson, 2009

unranked

  • A. neosplendens Thompson, in litt.

[4]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2013)

References

  1. ^ a b c Mengual, Ximo; Ståhls, Gunilla; Rojo, Santos (2008). "Molecular phylogeny of Allograpta (Diptera, Syrphidae) reveals diversity of lineages and non-monophyly of phytophagous taxa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49 (3). Elsevier: 715–727. Bibcode:2008MolPE..49..715M. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.011. PMID 18848633.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Smith, Kenneth G.V.; Vockeroth, J.R. (1980). Crosskey, R.W. (ed.). Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (Print). London: British museum (Natural History). ISBN 0565-00821-8.
  3. ^ : K. Nishida, Rotheray, G., F. Thompson, C.. First non-predaceous syrphinae flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae): A new leaf-mining Allograpta from Costa Rica
  4. ^ a b Ximo Mengual; Carlos Ruiz; Santos Rojo; Gunilla Ståls; Frederic Christian Thompson (2009). "A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new subgenus and species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2214: 1–28. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
  5. ^ Ximo Mengual, Gunilla Ståhls & Jeffrey H. Skevington (2021) Life on an island: the phylogenetic placement of Loveridgeana and Afrotropical Sphaerophoria (Diptera: Syrphidae) inferred from molecular characters, Systematics and Biodiversity, 19:1, 22-53, DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1795743
  6. ^ Marinoni, Luciane; Thompson, F. Christian (2003). "Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species". Studia dipterologica. 10 (2): 565–578. ISSN 0945-3954.
Taxon identifiers
Allograpta