Sphaeniscus filiolus

{{Short description|Species of fly}}

{{Speciesbox

|image =

|image_caption =

|genus = Sphaeniscus

|species = filiolus

|authority = (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}}

|display_parents = 3

|synonyms = *Aciura filiola Loew, 1869

• Sphaeniscus brevicauda 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 }}
• Spheniscomyia aegyptiaca Efflatoun, 1924{{cite journal |last1=Efflatoun |first1=H.C. |title=Two new species of Spheniscomyia (Diptera, Trypaneidae) from Egypt |journal=Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Égypte |date=1924 |volume=(1923) 7 |pages=132–139}}

}}

Sphaeniscus filiolus is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Sphaeniscus of 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}}