Metasphenisca is a genus of fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[4] There are at least 25 described species in the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions. Of these, 20 occur in the continental Afrotropics and two are confined to Madagascar; three species occur in the Arabian Peninsula.[5]
| Metasphenisca | |
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| Metasphenisca tetrachaeta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
| Tribe: | Tephrellini |
| Genus: | Metasphenisca Hendel, 1914[1] |
| Type species | |
| Trypeta gracilipes | |
| Synonyms | |
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Species
edit- Metasphenisca atricomata Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca axilatra Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca bezziana (Enderlein, 1911)[6]
- Metasphenisca bifaria Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca caeca (Bezzi, 1908)[7]
- Metasphenisca discocephala Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca ghenti Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca gracilipes (Loew, 1862)[2]
- Metasphenisca grandidieri (Bezzi, 1924)[8]
- Metasphenisca haematopoda (Bezzi, 1924)[8]
- Metasphenisca hazelae Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca interrupta (Munro, 1929)[9]
- Metasphenisca longulior (Munro, 1929)[9]
- Metasphenisca marmorea Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca micrura Hering, 1942[10]
- Metasphenisca negeviana (Freidberg, 1974)[11]
- Metasphenisca nigricans (Wiedemann, 1830)[12]
- Metasphenisca nigricosta (Bezzi, 1908)[7]
- Metasphenisca nigriseta (Bezzi, 1924)[8]
- Metasphenisca pallidifemur Hancock, 1991[13]
- Metasphenisca parallela Hering, 1935[14]
- Metasphenisca parilis Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca quinquemaculata (Macquart, 1846)[15]
- Metasphenisca reinhardi (Wiedemann, 1824)[16]
- Metasphenisca rubida Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca spathuliniforma Dirlbek & Dirlbek, 1968[17]
- Metasphenisca tetrachaeta (Bezzi, 1918)[18]
- Metasphenisca transilis Munro, 1947[3]
- Metasphenisca zernyi Hering, 1941[19]
References
edit- ^ Hendel, F. (1914). "Die Bohrfliegen Sudamerikas". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Etnographischen Museums zu Dresden. (1912)14: 1–84, 4 pls.
- ^ a b Loew, H. (1862). "Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part I.". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 6 (1 [= No. 141]): xxiv + 221.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Munro, H.K. (1947). African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between Tephritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia. Southern Africa: Entomological Society of Southern Africa. pp. [viii] + 28.
- ^ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.
- ^ Hancock, D.L.; Freidberg, A.; Friedman, A.-L.-L. (2021). Tephritidae (true fruit flies). Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute. pp. 1669–1734. ISBN 978-1-928224-13-6. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ Enderlein, G. (1911). "Trypetiden-Studien". Zoologischer Jahrbucher (Syst.). 31: 407–460. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ a b Bezzi, M. (1908). "Ditteri Eritrei raccolti dal Dott. Andreini e dal Prof.Tellini. Parte Seconda. Diptera Cyclorrhapha". Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. 39[1907]: 3–199. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ a b c Bezzi, Mario (1924). "Trypaneides d'Afrique (Dipt.) de la collection du Museum National de Paris. (Suite.) [concl.]". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris. 1924: 88–91.
- ^ a b Munro, H.K. (1929). "Additional trypetid material in the collection of the South African Museum (Trypetidae, Diptera)". Annals of the South African Museum. 29: 1–39. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Hering, E.M. (1942). "Neue Gattungen und Arten von Fruchtfliegen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Universitat Berlin (Dipt.). (41. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae)". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 25: 274–291.
- ^ Freidberg, A. (1974). "Descriptions of new Tephritidae (Diptera) from Israel". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 37: 49–62. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1830). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. Vol. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ Hancock, D.L. (1991). "Tephrellini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) from Madagascar". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 54 (2): 173–184. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Hering, E.M. (1935). "Neue Bohrfliegen aus Afrika. (Dipt.) (5. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae)" (PDF). Konowia. 14: 154–158. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Macquart, P.J.M. (1846). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1]. Lille: Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts. pp. 133–364, 20 pls. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- ^ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1824). Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus Analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniens: maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kiliae,eregio typoguapheo scholarum. pp. 1–60. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Dirlbek, Jan; Dirlbek, Karel (1968). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna Afghanistans. Trypetidae, Diptera". Cas. Morav. Mus. Ved. Prir. 53 (suppl.): 173–180.
- ^ Bezzi, Mario (1918). "Notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies of the family Trypaneidae, other than Dacus (s.l.) (Dipt.). --II". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 9: 13–46. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ Hering, E.M. (1941). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna Deutsch-Ostafrikas, insbesondere des Matengo-Hochlandes. I. Diptera: Trypetidae". Annalen der Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. (1940) 51: 193–205.