Allograpta
| Allograpta | |
|---|---|
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| Allograpta obliqua male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Syrphini |
| Genus: | Allograpta Osten Sacken, 1875[1] |
| Type species | |
| Scaeva obliqua Say, 1823 | |
| Synonyms | |
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 but with the genera Sphaerophoria and Exallandra placed within which complicates matters. A 2009 review concluded that a more complete review is needed before major taxonomic changes could occur i.e. splitting the genus up or incorporating related genera,[1][4] and the former subgenera were later elevated to genera in 2012.[5]
List of species by species group
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References
[edit]- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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.
- ↑ : K. Nishida, Rotheray, G., F. Thompson, C.. First non-predaceous syrphinae flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae): A new leaf-mining Allograpta from Costa Rica
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Thompson, F. Christian (2012). "Costarica Mengual & Thompson, 2009 (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) junior homonym of Costarica Kocak & Kemal, 2008 (Insecta: Orthoptera): Proposed replacement by Tiquicia nom. nov". Zootaxa. 3360 (1): 68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3360.1.3. ISSN 1175-5326.
- ↑ 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.