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Sphegina

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| image = Sphegina montana Richard Bartz.jpg

| image_caption = Sphegina montana

| taxon = Sphegina

| authority = Meigen, 1822{{cite book |last1=Meigen |first1=Johann Wilhelm |title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten |date=1822 |publisher=Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann |location=Hamm |pages=x, 416, pls. 22–32 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=14 April 2019}}

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| subdivision_ranks = Subgenera

| subdivision = *Asiosphegina Stackelberg, 1974{{cite journal |last1=Stackelberg |first1=A.A. |title=New species of hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of Siberia and Mongolian People's Republic |journal=Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie |date=1974 |volume=53 |pages=443–446}}

| type_species = Milesia clunipes

| type_species_authority = Fallén, 1816{{cite book |last1=Fallen |first1=C.F. |title=Syrphici Sveciae |date=1816 |publisher=Berlingianis |location=Lundae [= Lund] |pages=1–30}}

| synonyms = *Marsupium Swinderen, 1822{{cite book |last1=Swinderen |first1=T. van |title=Index rerum naturalium, quae conservantur in Museo Academio Groningano. Naamlijst der voorwerpen van natuurlijke historie, welke bewaard worden in het Akademisch Museum te Groningen |date=1822 |publisher=J. Oomken |location=Groningen |pages=120 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/178972#page/13/mode/1up |access-date=3 November 2021}}

  • Sphecina Agassiz, 1846{{cite book |last1=Agassiz |first1=J.L.R. |title=Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis |date=1846 |publisher=Jent & Gassmann |location=Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland] |pages=viii + 393}}
  • Humatrix Gistel, 1848{{cite book |last1=Gistel |first1=J.N.F.X. |title=Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs fur hohere Schulen |date=1848 |publisher=R. Hoffmann |location=Stuttgart |pages=xvi + 216 + [4] pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=7 July 2021}}
  • Sphoegina Rondani, 1857{{cite book |last1=Rondani |first1=C. |title=Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol: II. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars prima. Oestridae: Syrpfhidae: Conopidae |date=1857 |publisher=A. Stocchi |location=Parmae [= Parma] |pages=264 pp., 1 pl |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34067#page/237/mode/1up |access-date=3 August 2021}}

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Sphegina is a genus of small, slender hoverflies.{{cite book |last=Stubbs |first=Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide |edition=2nd |year=1983 |publisher=British Entomological and Natural History Society |location=London |isbn=1-899935-03-7 |pages=253, xvpp }}{{cite book |last=Ball |first=S.G. |author2=Morris, R.K.A. |title=Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) |year=2000 |publisher=Biological Record Centre |location=Monks Wood, UK |isbn=1-870393-54-6 |pages=167 pages }}{{cite journal | author = Coovert, G. C. |author2=Thompson F. C. | year = 1977 | title = The Sphegina species of Eastern North America (Diptera: Syrphidae) | journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | volume = 90 | pages = 536–552 |url=http://si-pddr.si.edu/jspui/bitstream/10088/17073/1/ent_FCT_30.pdf }}{{cite journal | author = Thompson, F. C. |author2=Torp, E. | year = 1986 | title = Synopsis of the European species of Sphegina Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) | journal = Insect Systematics & Evolution| volume = 17 |issue=2 | pages = 235–269 |url= http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/17484/1/ent_FCT_51.pdf | doi=10.1163/187631286x00404}} They are widespread throughout Eurasia and North America.{{cite book |last= Van Veen |first= M.P. |title= Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae |type= Hardback |year= 2004 |publisher= KNNV Publishing |location= Utrecht |isbn= 90-5011-199-8 |pages= 254 }} In flight they seem to have long hind legs which they often carry hanging down, making them resemble sphecid or ichneumonid wasps. Adult Sphegina are usually found in damp and shady habitats close to water in forested areas, and several species can often be found together. They often feed on white and yellow flowers of Apiaceae, Ranunculaceae, Asteraceae, and Rosaceae like Crataegus, Sorbus, and Sorbaria. Larvae nest in the sap of living and dead trees or in decaying cambium under tree bark lying in water or other damp conditions. The larvae of some species have been discovered in the tunnels of other xylophagous insects.

Sphegina generally have a face strongly concave and bare in both sexes, antennal basoflagellomere oval with a long dorsal and pilose arista; eyes bare and dichoptic in both sexes; postpronotum pilose; metasternum and katepisternum non-pilose; ventral scutellar fringe absent; alula narrow or absent; postmetacoxal bridge complete and broad; metaleg much longer than pro- and mesoleg and with incrassate femur; abdomen petiolate. Sphegina are similar to the species of their sister group Neoascia but are distinguished by the following characters: face oblique, nearly straight, laterally pilose; katepisternum usually pilose; basoflagellomere usually elongate, longer than wide; arista bare and about as long as basoflagellomere. The small-sized species of Sphegina can be very similar to Neoascia in habitus and they may be especially difficult to distinguish in the wild.

Sphegina has two subgenera Asiosphegina and Sphegina.

Species

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Subgenus: Sphegina Meigen, 1822

  • Sphegina abbreviata Steenis, Hippa & Mutin, 2018{{cite journal |last1=Steenis |first1=J. van |last2=Hippa |first2=H. |last3=Mutin |first3=V.A. |title=Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |date=2018 |issue=489 |pages=1–198 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.489 |s2cid=165348351 |url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/622/1439 |access-date=4 November 2021|doi-access=free }}
  • Sphegina alaoglui Hayat, 1997{{cite journal |last1=Hayat |first1=R. |title=Sphegina (Sphegina) alaoglui, a new hover-fly from north eastern Turkey (Diptera: Syrphidae) |journal=Zoology in the Middle East |date=1997 |volume=14 |pages=109–113|doi=10.1080/09397140.1997.10637711 }}
  • Sphegina albipes (Bigot, 1883){{cite journal |last1=Bigot |first1=Jacques-Marie-Frangile |title=Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 22e partie, XXXII: Syrphidi (2e partie). espèces nouvelles, No 1er |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |date=1884 |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=315–356 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32548743#page/319/mode/1up |access-date=24 July 2021}}
  • Sphegina amurensis Mutin, 1984{{cite journal |last1=Mutin |first1=V.A. |title=Hover-flies of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) of continental part of Far East |journal=Fauna I Ekologia Nasemomykh Yuga Dal'nego Vostoka, Vladivostok |date=1984 |pages=117–126 |language=Russian}}
  • Sphegina anatolii Mutin, 1999{{cite journal |last1=Mutin |first1=V.A. |title=New exotic species and new synonyms of hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Russian Far East |journal=Dipterological Research |date=1998 |volume=9 |pages=9–12}}
  • Sphegina angustata Steenis, Hippa & Mutin, 2018
  • Sphegina appalachiensis Coovert, 1977
  • Sphegina armatipes Malloch, 1922{{cite journal |last= Malloch |first= John Russell |date= 1922 |title= Seven new species of the syrphid genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera)|url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3333559#page/177/mode/1up |journal= Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |publisher= Biological Society of Washington |volume= 35 |pages= 141–144 |access-date=6 January 2015}}
  • Sphegina aterrima Stackelberg, 1953{{cite web |first = A.V |last = Barkalov |title = Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum |url = http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |publisher = the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences |location = Novosibirsk, Russia |access-date = 29 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |archive-date=October 20, 2008}}{{cite journal |last= Stackelberg|first= A. A. |date= 1953 |title= Kratkiy obzor palearkticheskikh vidov roda Sphegina Mb. (Diptera, Syrphidae)|journal= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Leningrad |volume=13 |pages=373–386 | location = Leningrad | language = ru}}
  • Sphegina atrolutea Lucas in Thompson & Torp, 1986{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=J.A.W. |title=Sphegina atrolutea new species. P. 240. In Thompson, F. C. & Torp, E., Synopsis of the European species of Sphegina Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) |journal=Entomologica Scandinavica |date=1986 |volume=17 |pages=235–269 |doi=10.1163/187631286X00404 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/17484/ent_FCT_51.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=4 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina biannulata Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina brachygaster Hull, 1935{{cite journal |last1=Hull |first1=F.M. |title=Descriptions of new species of the genus Sphegina with a key to those known from North America (Syrphidae: Diptera) |journal=Transactions of the American Entomological Society |date=1935 |volume=61 |pages=373–382, 1 pl}}
  • Sphegina brevisterna Violovich, 1980{{cite journal |last1=Violovitsh |first1=N.A. |title=Review of Siberian species of the genus Sphegina Mg., 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) |journal=Nov. Mal. Vidy Faun. Sibir |date=1980 |volume=14 |pages=105–123 |language=Russian}}
  • Sphegina bridwelli Cole, 1924{{cite journal |last= Cole |first= F. R. |date= 1924 |title= Notes on Diptera of the syrphid genus Sphegina |journal= Entomological News |publisher= American Entomological Society|volume= 35 |pages= 39–44 }}
  • Sphegina californica Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina calthae Mutin, 1984
  • Sphegina campanulata Robertson, 1901{{cite journal |last1=Robertson |first1=Charles |title=Some new Diptera |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |date=1901 |volume=33 |issue=10 |pages=284–286 |doi=10.4039/Ent33284-10 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88722#page/300/mode/1up |access-date=4 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina carbonaria Mutin, 1998{{cite journal |last1=Mutin |first1=V.A. |title=Four new species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Russia and India |journal=Dipterological Research |date=1998 |volume=9 |pages=237–241}}
  • Sphegina catthae Mutin, 1984
  • Sphegina clavata (Scopoli, 1763){{cite book |last1=Scopoli |first1=I.A. |title=Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana |date=1763 |publisher=Trattner |location=Vindobonae [= Vienna] |pages=[30] + 420 pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209872#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=23 June 2021}}
  • Sphegina claviventris Stackelberg, 1956{{cite journal |last1=Stackelberg |first1=A.A. |title=Neue Angaben über die Systematik der palaarktischen Sphegina-Arten (Diptera, Syrphidae). II |journal=Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie |date=1956 |volume=35 |pages=935–943 |language=German}}
  • Sphegina clunipes (Fallén, 1816)
  • Sphegina cornifera Becker, 1921{{cite journal |last1=Becker |first1=T. |title=Neue Dipteren meiner Sammlung |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1921 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=1–93 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11848546#page/13/mode/1up |access-date=23 October 2021}}
  • Sphegina dogieli Stackelberg, 1953
  • Sphegina elegans Schummel, 1843{{cite journal |last1=Schummel |first1=T.E. |title=Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der bis jetzt in Schlesien gefangenen Zweiflugler der Syrphen Familie |journal=Uebers. Arbeit. Verand. Schles. Gesellsch. Vaterl. Kultur |date=1841 |volume=1841 |pages=163–170}}
  • Sphegina elongata Shiraki & Edashige, 1953{{cite journal |last1=Shiraki |first1=T. |last2=Edashige |first2=T. |title=The insect fauna of Mr. Ishizuchi and Omogo Valley, Iyo, Japan. The Syrphidae (Diptera) |journal=Transactions of the Shikoku Entomological Society |date=1953 |volume=3 |issue=5–6 |pages=84–125}}
  • Sphegina fasciata Shiraki, 1968{{cite book |last1=Shiraki |first1=T. |title=Syrphidae (Insecta: Diptera)|series=Fauna Japonica |date=1968 |publisher=Biogeographical Society of Japan |location=Japan |pages=Vol. II, 243 pp., XL pls.; Vol. III, 272 pp., XLVII pls}}
  • Sphegina flavimana Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina flavomaculata Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina grunini Stackelberg, 1953
  • Sphegina guptai Mutin, 1998
  • Sphegina hansoni Thompson, 1966{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=F.C. |title=A new Sphegina from Nepal (Diptera: Syrphidae) |journal=Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society |date=1966 |volume=59[1964-65] |pages=42–45 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50586979#page/430/mode/1up |access-date=8 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina hennigiana Stackelberg, 1956
  • Sphegina hodosa Violovich, 1981{{cite journal |last1=Violovitsh |first1=N.A. |title=Some new palaearctic species of hover-flies (Dipt., Syrphidae) |journal=Izv. Sib. Otdel. Akad. Nauk SSSR (Biol. Nauk) |date=1981 |volume=1 |pages=93–96 |language=Russian}}
  • Sphegina infuscata Loew, 1863{{cite journal|last1=Loew|first1=Hermann|title=Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria tertia|journal=Berl. Entomol. Z.|date=1863|volume=7|pages=1–55|doi=10.1002/mmnd.18630070104|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39616#page/9/mode/1up|accessdate=14 February 2017}}
  • Sphegina japonica Shiraki & Edashige, 1953
  • Sphegina javana Meijere, 1914{{cite journal|last1=Meijere|first1=Johannes C. H. de|title=Studien über südostasiatische Dipteren. IX.|journal=Tijdschrift voor Entomologie|date=1914|volume=57|pages=137–275|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10860759#page/227/mode/1up|accessdate=18 November 2017}}
  • Sphegina keeniana Williston, 1887{{cite journal|last1=Williston|first1=S. W.|title=Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae.|journal=Bulletin of the United States National Museum|date=1887|volume=31|pages=xxx + 335|url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_28166|accessdate =1 July 2015}}
  • Sphegina kumaoniensis Mutin, 1998
  • Sphegina kurenzovi Mutin, 1984
  • Sphegina latifrons Egger, 1865{{cite journal |last1=Egger |first1=J. |title=Dipterologische Beiträge. Fortsetzung der Beschreibung neuer Zweiflugler [concl.]. |journal=Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. |date=1865 |volume=15 (Abhandl.) |pages=291–298 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/136803#page/445/mode/1up |access-date=5 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina limbipennis Strobl, 1909{{cite journal |last1=Strobl |first1=P. Gabriel |last2=Czerny |first2=Leander |title=Spanische Dipteren. III |journal=Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich. |date=1909 |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=121–310 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137015#page/521/mode/1up |accessdate=26 May 2019}}
  • Sphegina lobata Loew, 1863
  • Sphegina lobulifera Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina melancholica Stackelberg, 1956
  • Sphegina micangensis Huo, Ren & Zheng, 2007{{cite book |last1=Huo |first1=K.K. |last2=Ren |first2=G. |last3=Zheng |first3=Z. |title=Fauna of Syrphidae from Mt. Qinling-Bashan in China (Insecta: Diptera) |date=2007 |publisher=Beijing Huonzheng Printer LTD Co |location=Beijing |pages=512 |language=Chinese}}
  • Sphegina mikado Mutin, 2001{{cite journal |last1=Mutin |first1=Valerii Alexandrovich |title=Review of the Sphegina claviventris species-group (Diptera, Syrphidae) with description of a new species from Japan |journal=Far Eastern Entomologist |date=2001 |volume=107 |pages=1–8 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238787762 |access-date=5 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina montana Becker, 1921
  • Sphegina negrobovi Skufjin, 1976{{cite journal |last1=Skufjin |first1=K.V. |title=New species of hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Northern Caucasus |journal=Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie |date=1976 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=931–933 |language=Russian}}
  • Sphegina nigrapicula Huo, Ren & Zheng, 2007
  • Sphegina nigerrima Shiraki, 1930
  • Sphegina nigra Meigen, 1822
  • Sphegina nigrimanus Cole, 1924
  • Sphegina obscurifacies Stackelberg, 1956
  • Sphegina occidentalis Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina petiolata Coquillett, 1910{{cite journal |last1=Coquillett |first1=D.W. |title=New genera and species of North American Diptera |journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |date=1910 |volume=12 |pages=124–131 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2590168#page/158/mode/1up |access-date=6 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina platychira Szilády, 1937{{cite journal |last1=Szilády |first1=Z. |title=Bemerkungen über den Bau der Dipterenbeine |journal=Allatt. Kozl. |date=1937 |volume=34 |issue=1–2 |pages=87–92 |language=Hungarian}}
  • Sphegina pontica Mutin, 1998
  • Sphegina potanini Stackelberg, 1953
  • Sphegina punctata Cole, 1921{{cite journal |last1=Cole |first1=F.R. |last2=Lovett |first2=A.L. |title=An annotated list of the Diptera of Oregon |journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |date=1921 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=197–344 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118977#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=3 August 2021}}
  • Sphegina quadrisetae Huo & Ren, 2006{{cite journal |last1=Huo |first1=K.K. |last2=Ren |first2=G.D. |title=Descriptions of two new species of Sphegina (Diptera, Syrphidae) from China |journal=Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica |date=2006 |volume=31 |pages=434–437}}
  • Sphegina rufa Malloch, 1922
  • Sphegina rufiventris Loew, 1863
  • Sphegina smirnovi Violovich in Stackelberg, 1953
  • Sphegina spheginea (Zetterstedt, 1838){{cite book |last1=Zetterstedt |first1=J. W. |title=Dipterologis Scandinaviae. Sect. 3: Diptera, pp. 477-868. In his Insecta Lapponica |date=1838 |location=Lipsiae [= Leipzig] |pages=vi + 1,140}}
  • Sphegina spiniventris Stackelberg, 1953
  • Sphegina stackelbergi Violovich, 1980
  • Sphegina sublatifrons Vujic, 1990{{cite journal |last1=Vujic |first1=A. |title=Genera Neoascia Williston 1886 and Sphegina Meigen 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) om Yugoslavia and description of species Sphegina sublatifrons sp. nova |journal=Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Belgrade (B). |date=1990 |volume=45 |pages=77–93}}
  • Sphegina taibaishanensis Huo & Ren, 2006
  • Sphegina tenuifemorata Mutin, 1984
  • Sphegina thoraciaca Shiraki, 1968
  • Sphegina tricoloripes Brunetti, 1915
  • Sphegina tristriata Brunetti, 1913{{cite journal |last1=Brunetti |first1=E. |title=Zoological results of the Arbor Expedition, 1911-12. XI. Diptera |journal=Records of the Indian Museum |date=1913 |volume=8 |pages=149–190, pl. 6 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11128497#page/201/mode/1up |access-date=10 November 2021}}
  • Sphegina tuvinica Violovich, 1980
  • Sphegina uncinata Hippa, Steenis & Mutin, 2015{{cite journal |last1=Hippa |first1=H. |last2=Steenis |first2=J. van |last3=Mutin |first3=V.A. |title=The genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a biodiversity hotspot: the thirty-six sympatric species in Kambaiti, Myanmar. |journal=Zootaxa |date=2015 |volume=3954 |pages=1–67 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3954.1.1 |pmid=25947834 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275656042 |access-date=4 November 2021}}50px Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)] license.
  • Sphegina univittata Huo, Ren & Zheng, 2007
  • Sphegina varidissima Shiraki, 1930{{cite journal |last= Shiraki |first= T. |date= 1930 |title= Die Syrphiden des japanischen Kaiserreichs, mit Berucksichtigung benachbarter Gebiete|journal= Mem. Fac. Agric. Taihoku Imp. Univ. |volume= 1 |pages= xx + 446 pp }}
  • Sphegina varifacies Kassebeer, 1991{{cite journal |last=Kassebeer |first= C. F.|date=1991 |title=Eine neue Art der Gattung Sphegina Meigen 1822 aus Europa (Diptera: Syrphidae). |journal= Entomologische Zeitschrift |publisher= Museum für Naturkunde |volume= 101 |issue= 441–446}}
  • Sphegina verae Mutin, 1984
  • Sphegina verecunda Collin, 1937{{cite journal |last= Collin|first= J. E. |date=1937 |title=Notes on Syrphidae (Diptera). II |journal= The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |publisher= Pemberley Books |volume= 73 |issue=2 |pages= 182–185}}
  • Sphegina violovitshi Stackelberg, 1956

Subgenus: Asiosphegina Stackelberg, 1974

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Category:Diptera of Europe

Category:Diptera of North America

Category:Diptera of Asia

Category:Hoverfly genera

Category:Brachyopini

Category:Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen