Metasphenisca
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = 2021 01 27 Metasphenisca tetrachaeta 2.jpg
| image_caption = Metasphenisca tetrachaeta
| taxon = Metasphenisca
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| authority = Hendel, 1914{{cite journal |last1=Hendel |first1=F. |title=Die Bohrfliegen Sudamerikas |journal=Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Etnographischen Museums zu Dresden |date=1914 |volume=(1912)14 |pages=1–84, 4 pls}}
| type_species = Trypeta gracilipes
| type_species_authority = Loew, 1862{{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=H. |title=Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part I. |journal=Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections |date=1862 |volume=6 |issue=1 [= No. 141] |pages=xxiv + 221}}
| synonyms = *Isoconia Munro, 1947{{cite book |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between Tephritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia |date=1947 |publisher=Entomological Society of Southern Africa |location=Southern Africa |pages=[viii] + 28}}
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Metasphenisca is a genus of fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.{{cite journal |last1=Norrbom |first1=A.L. |last2=Carroll |first2=L.E. |last3=Thompson |first3=F.C. |last4=White |first4=I.M |last5=Freidberg |first5=A. |title=Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. |journal=Myia |date=1999 |volume=9 |pages=vii + 524}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Hancock |first1=D.L. |last2=Freidberg |first2=A. |last3=Friedman |first3=A.-L.-L. |title=Tephritidae (true fruit flies) |date=2021 |publisher=South African National Biodiversity Institute |location=Pretoria |isbn=978-1-928224-13-6 |pages=1669–1734 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/manual-afrotropical-diptera.html |access-date=25 August 2022}}
Species
- Metasphenisca atricomata Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca axilatra Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca bezziana (Enderlein, 1911){{cite journal |last1=Enderlein |first1=G. |title=Trypetiden-Studien |journal=Zoologischer Jahrbücher (Syst.) |date=1911 |volume=31 |pages=407–460 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27413439#page/427/mode/1up |access-date=21 February 2021}}
- Metasphenisca bifaria Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca caeca (Bezzi, 1908){{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=M. |title=Ditteri Eritrei raccolti dal Dott. Andreini e dal Prof.Tellini. Parte Seconda. Diptera Cyclorrhapha |journal=Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana |date=1908 |volume=39[1907] |pages=3–199 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10370485#page/11/mode/1up |access-date=24 February 2021}}
- Metasphenisca discocephala Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca ghenti Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca gracilipes (Loew, 1862)
- Metasphenisca grandidieri (Bezzi, 1924){{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=Mario |title=Trypaneides d'Afrique (Dipt.) de la collection du Museum National de Paris. (Suite.) [concl.] |journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris |date=1924 |volume=1924 |pages=88–91}}
- Metasphenisca haematopoda (Bezzi, 1924)
- Metasphenisca hazelae Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca interrupta (Munro, 1929){{cite journal |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=Additional trypetid material in the collection of the South African Museum (Trypetidae, Diptera) |journal=Annals of the South African Museum |date=1929 |volume=29 |pages=1–39 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40891510#page/21/mode/1up |access-date=1 February 2021}}
- Metasphenisca longulior (Munro, 1929)
- Metasphenisca marmorea Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca micrura Hering, 1942{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Neue Gattungen und Arten von Fruchtfliegen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Universitat Berlin (Dipt.). (41. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae) |journal = Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1942 |volume=25 |pages=274–291}}
- Metasphenisca negeviana (Freidberg, 1974){{cite journal |last1=Freidberg |first1=A. |title=Descriptions of new Tephritidae (Diptera) from Israel |journal=Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa |date=1974 |volume=37 |pages=49–62 |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00128789_2836 |access-date=11 February 2021}}
- Metasphenisca nigricans (Wiedemann, 1830){{cite book |last1=Wiedemann |first1=Christian Rudolph Wilhelm |title=Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten |date=1830 |volume=2 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88495#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=21 April 2020}}
- Metasphenisca nigricosta (Bezzi, 1908)
- Metasphenisca nigriseta (Bezzi, 1924)
- Metasphenisca pallidifemur Hancock, 1991{{cite journal |last1=Hancock |first1=D.L. |title=Tephrellini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) from Madagascar |journal=Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa |date=1991 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=173–184 |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00128789_3746 |access-date=1 March 2021}}
- Metasphenisca parallela Hering, 1935{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Neue Bohrfliegen aus Afrika. (Dipt.) (5. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae) |journal=Konowia |date=1935 |volume=14 |pages=154–158 |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/KON_14_0154-0158.pdf |access-date=1 March 2021}}
- Metasphenisca parilis Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca quinquemaculata (Macquart, 1846){{cite book |last1=Macquart |first1=P.J.M. |title=Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1] |date=1846 |publisher=Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts |location=Lille |pages=133–364, 20 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109525#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=5 December 2020}}
- Metasphenisca reinhardi (Wiedemann, 1824){{cite book |last1=Wiedemann |first1=Christian Rudolph Wilhelm |title=Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus Analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniens: maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat |date=1824 |publisher=Kiliae,eregio typoguapheo scholarum|pages=1–60 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148003#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=11 May 2020}}
- Metasphenisca rubida Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca spathuliniforma Dirlbek & Dirlbek, 1968{{cite journal |last1=Dirlbek |first1=Jan |last2=Dirlbek |first2=Karel |title=Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna Afghanistans. Trypetidae, Diptera. |journal=Cas. Morav. Mus. Ved. Prir. |date=1968 |volume=53 (suppl.) |pages=173–180}}
- Metasphenisca tetrachaeta (Bezzi, 1918){{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=Mario |title=Notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies of the family Trypaneidae, other than Dacus (s.l.) (Dipt.). --II |journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research |date=1918 |volume=9 |pages=13–46 |doi=10.1017/S0007485300037755 |url=https://zenodo.org/records/2348313/files/article.pdf |access-date=5 February 2021}}
- Metasphenisca transilis Munro, 1947
- Metasphenisca zernyi Hering, 1941{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna Deutsch-Ostafrikas, insbesondere des Matengo-Hochlandes. I. Diptera: Trypetidae |journal=Annalen der Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien |date=1941 |volume=(1940) 51 |pages=193–205}}
References
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