Biology:Chamaesphegina
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Short description: Genus of flies
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Eristalinae |
| Tribe: | Brachyopini |
| Subtribe: | Spheginina |
| Genus: | Chamaesphegina Shannon & Aubertin, 1933[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chamaesphegina argentifacies Shannon & Aubertin, 1933[1]
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Chamaesphegina is a genus of South American hoverflies.[3]
Description
Shining bare elongate flies, face concave, with slightly projecting epistome. The hind margin of the scutellum forming a well defined ridge. Abdomen is elongate and more or less parallel sided, wings are long and slender. Legs are simple, with the hind femora with minute bristles. The genus was first described from 4 female specimens.[1]
Species
- C. argentifacies Shannon & Aubertin, 1933[1]
- C. macra (Enderlein, 1938)[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Shannon, Raymond C.; Aubertin, D. (1933). Syrphidae. Diptera Patagonia & South Chile. 4. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 120–170.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Enderlein, G. (1938). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Syrphiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1939: 192–237.
- ↑ Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. https://archive.org/stream/familysyrphidae00thom#page/n1/mode/2up.
Wikidata ☰ Q2747049 entry
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