Sphaeniscus
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Sphaeniscus sexmaculatus00.jpg
| image_caption = A specimen from Zimbabwe
| taxon = Sphaeniscus
| display_parents = 2
| authority = Becker, 1908{{cite journal |last= Becker |first= Theodor |date= 1908|title= Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln |journal= Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |publisher= Zoologischen Museum in Berlin|volume= 4|issue= 1|pages= –180 }}
| type_species = Sphaeniscus brevicauda
| type_species_authority = Becker, 1908
| synonyms = *Pseudopheniscus Hendel, 1913{{cite journal |last= Hendel|first= Friedrich |date= 1913 |title=Acalyptrate Musciden (Dipt.) II. In , H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. |journal = Supplementa Entomologica |volume= 2 |pages= 77–112 }}
- Pseudospheniscus Hendel, 1914{{cite journal |last1=Hendel |first1=Friedrich |title=Die Gattungen der Bohrfliegen. (Analytische Ubersicht aller bisher bekannten Gattungen der Tephritinae.) |journal=Wiener Entomologische Zeitung |date=1914 |volume=33 |pages=73–98 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11530617#page/97/mode/1up |access-date=8 February 2021}}
- Pseuopspheniscus Shinji, 1939{{cite journal |last1=Shinji |first1=O. |title=On the Trypetidae of north-eastern Japan, with the description of new species |journal=The Insect World (Gifu) |date=1939 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=352–355}}
- Spheniscomyia Bezzi, 1913
- Spheniscus Bezzi, 1913
}}
Sphaeniscus is a genus of tephritid or 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}}
Species
- Sphaeniscus atilius (Walker, 1849){{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum |date=1849 |volume=IV |pages=3] + 689–1172 + [2] |publisher=British Museum (Natural History) |location=London|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118982#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=27 January 2021}}
- Sphaeniscus binoculatus (Bezzi, 1928){{cite journal|last1=Bezzi|first1=Mario|title=Diptera Brachycera and Athericera of the Fiji Islands based on material in the British Museum (Natural History)|journal=Nature|volume=123|issue=3104|date=1928|pages=viii + 220}}
- Sphaeniscus filiolus (Loew, 1869){{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=H. |title=Revision der europäische n Trypetina |journal=Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften |date=1869 |volume=34 |issue=7/8 |pages=1–24 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97784#page/15/mode/1up |access-date=7 February 2021}}
- Sphaeniscus lindbergi Hering, 1958{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=[New species], p. 20-22. In Frey,R. H., Zur Kenntnis der Diptera Brachycera p. p. der Kapverdischen Inseln. Commentat. |journal=Biol. Soc. Sci. Fenn. |date=1958 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=1–61}}
- Sphaeniscus melanotrichotus Hering, 1956{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Trypetidae (Dipt.) von Ceylon (53. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae) |journal=Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel |date=1956 |volume=67 |pages=62–74}}
- Sphaeniscus quadrincisus (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}}
- Sphaeniscus sexmaculatus (Macquart, 1843){{cite journal|last1=Macquart|first1=P. J. M.|title=Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus.|journal=Tome Deuxieme.--3e Partie. Roret, Paris|date=1843|pages=304 pp., 36 pls}}
- Sphaeniscus trifasciatus Korneyev & Dirlbek, 2000{{cite journal |last1=Korneyev |first1=Valery A. |last2=Dirlbek |first2=Jan |title=The fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Syria, Jordan and Iraq |journal=Studia Dipterologica |date=2000 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=463–482 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273130148 |access-date=4 March 2021}}