Fazia (fly)

Fazia
Female Fazia micrura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Tribe: Syrphini
Genus: Fazia
Shannon, 1927
Type species
Fazia bullaephora
Shannon, 1927 (= decemmaculata Rondani, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Chasmia Enderlein, 1938 (Unav.)
  • Microsphaerophoria Frey, 1946
  • Epistrophe (Metallograpta) Hull, 1949
  • Epistrophe (Metepistrophe) Hull, 1949

Fazia is a genus of hoverflies, formerly treated as a subgenus of Allograpta (e.g., [1]), but now treated as a genus, though not monophyletic as presently defined.[2]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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