Fazia Shannon
Creators: name: Mengual, Ximo
name: Ruiz, Carlos
name: Rojo, Santos
name: Ståhls, Gunilla
name: Thompson, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Fazia

description: Subgenus Fazia Shannon
Fazia Shannon 1927: 25. Type-species, bullaephora Shannon (original designation) = decemmaculata (Rondani). Chasmia Enderlein 1938a: 213 (preoccupied by Enderlein 1922). Type-species, hians Enderlein (original designation). Metepistrophe Hull 1949b: 293 (as subgenus of Epistrophe). Type-species, Epistrophe altissima Fluke (original designation). Misidentified type-species. Originally named type was Epistrophe remigis Fluke, but Fluke (1951) noted that the specimen used by Hull was mislabelled by him and was actually altissima Fluke. Hence, under Article 70.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), we hereby fixed the type species of Metepistrophe Hull to the taxonomical species, altissima Fluke.
Metallograpta Hull 1949b: 293 (as subgenus of Epistrophe). Type-species, Allograpta colombia Curran (original designation).
Diagnosis. Face moderately to greatly produced anteriorly, with distinct tubercle; oral opening about 5 times as long as wide, with oral apex greatly extended beyond level of antennal base; antennal pits separate; plumula well developed; subscutellar pile fringe distinct, one or two rows of long pili; wing broadly bare basomedially, without apical dark macula; alula broad, about 1.5 times as broad as cell BM; metasternum pilose; abdomen broadly to narrowly elongate.
Included species. NEARCTIC: ** micrura Osten Sacken 1877: 330 (Sphaerophoria) NE: British Columbia, south to California, Texas & Mexico [= picticauda Bigot 1884: 102 (Sphaerophoria), = trifasciata Enderlein 1938a: 218 (Allograpta), = transversa Hull 1943a: 32 (Sphaerophoria)].
NEOTROPICAL: ** alta Curran 1936: 15 (Allograpta) Colombia, Ecuador [= flavomaculata Hull 1937b: 169 (Allograpta)]; ** altissima Fluke 1942: 10 (Epistrophe) Ecuador; ** argentipila Fluke 1942: 13 (Epistrophe) Ecuador, Peru, Argentina; ** centropogonis Nishida in Nishida et al. 2002: 423 (Allograpta) Costa Rica; ** colombia Curran 1925a: 349 (Allograpta) Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina; * decemmaculata Rondani 1863: 12 (Syrphus) Chile, Ecuador [= bullaephora Shannon 1927: 25 (Fazia)]; ** eupeltata Bigot 1884: 91 (Syrphus) Mexico [= mexicana Enderlein 1938a: 212 (Fazia)]; ** fasciata Curran 1932: 4 (Allograpta) Ecuador, Peru [= bisinterrupta Enderlein 1938a: 210 (Fazia)]; ** fascifrons Macquart 1846: 265 (Syrphus) Colombia, Ecuador [= armillata Fluke 1942: 12 (Epistrophe)]; ** flukei Curran 1936: 13 (Allograpta) Cuba; ** funeralia Hull 1944b: 27 (Epistrophe) NT: Jamaica; ** hians Enderlein 1938a: 213 (Chasmia) Mexico; * imitator Curran 1925a: 351 (Epistrophe) Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia; ** luna Fluke 1942: 8 (Epistrophe) Ecuador; * macquarti Blanchard 1852: 411 (Syrphus) Chile, Argentina [= australis Shannon 1927: 26 (Fazia)]; mu Bigot 1884: 105 (Mesograpta) Mexico; ** nasigera Enderlein 1938a: 212 (Fazia) Colombia; ** plaumanni Frey 1946: 168 (Microsphaerophoria) Brazil; ** remigis Fluke 1942: 9 (Epistrophe) Ecuador; ** roburoris Fluke 1942: 11 (Epistrophe) Ecuador, Argentina; ** rostrata Bigot 1884: 102 (Sphaerophoria) Mexico [= nasuta Enderlein 1938a: 214 (Chasmia), = rhina Thompson in Thompson et al. 1976: 37 (Allograpta)]; ** saussurii Giglio-Tos 1892: 2 (Syrphus) Mexico; ** similis Curran 1925a: 350 (Allograpta) Colombia, Brazil, Argentina; ** strigifacies Enderlein 1938a: 211 (Fazia) Brazil [= hermosa Hull 1941: 48 (Allograpta), = brunneola Frey 1946: 170 (Neoscaeva)]; ** syrphica Giglio-Tos 1892: 2 (Sphaerophoria) Mexico; ** willistoni Giglio-Tos 1893: 31 (Sphaerophoria) Mexico [= forreri Giglio-Tos 1893: 32 (Sphaerophoria)].
description: Published as part of Mengual, Ximo, Ruiz, Carlos, Rojo, Santos, Ståhls, Gunilla & Thompson, Christian, 2009, A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new subgenus and species, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2214 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189912