Metasphenisca

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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]

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Diptera

Family:Tephritidae

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Metasphenisca

Metasphenisca tetrachaeta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Subfamily:	Tephritinae
Tribe:	Tephrellini
Genus:	Metasphenisca Hendel, 1914^[1]
Type species
Trypeta gracilipes Loew, 1862^[2]
Synonyms
Isoconia Munro, 1947^[3]

Species

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

[1]
Hendel, F. (1914). "Die Bohrfliegen Sudamerikas". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Etnographischen Museums zu Dresden. (1912)14: 1–84, 4 pls.
[2]
Loew, H. (1862). "Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part I.". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 6 (1 [= No. 141]): xxiv + 221.
[3]
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.
[4]
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.
[5]
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.
[6]
Enderlein, G. (1911). "Trypetiden-Studien". Zoologischer Jahrbücher (Syst.). 31: 407–460. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
[7]
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.
[8]
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.
[9]
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.
[10]
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.
[11]
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.
[12]
Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1830). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. Vol. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
[13]
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.
[14]
Hering, E.M. (1935). "Neue Bohrfliegen aus Afrika. (Dipt.) (5. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae)" (PDF). Konowia. 14: 154–158. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
[15]
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.
[16]
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.
[17]
Dirlbek, Jan; Dirlbek, Karel (1968). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna Afghanistans. Trypetidae, Diptera". Cas. Morav. Mus. Ved. Prir. 53 (suppl.): 173–180.
[18]
Bezzi, Mario (1918). "Notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies of the family Trypaneidae, other than Dacus (s.l.) (Dipt.). --II" (PDF). Bulletin of Entomological Research. 9: 13–46. doi:10.1017/S0007485300037755. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
[19]
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.

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