''Allograpta '' is a very large and diverse

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of hoverflies present throughout the world except most of the

palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

region. The adults are brightly coloured flower pollinators and most larvae have a predatory feeding mode involving soft-bodied sternorrhynchans. Certain species have diverged from this and their larvae have been found to be

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s, stem-borers or pollen-feeders. ''Allograpta'' is currently being studied using both molecular and morphological methods to produce a robust phylogeny of the

and its related

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. Preliminary studies show the genus to be

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with the genera ''

Sphaerophoria ''Sphaerophoria '' is a genus of hoverflies. Species Subgenus '' Exallandra'' * '' Sphaerophoria cinctifacies'' (Speiser, 1910) * '' Sphaerophoria loewii'' Zetterstedt, 1843 Subgenus ''Loveridgeana'' *''Sphaerophoria beattiei'' (Doesburg and Doe ...

'' and ''

Exallandra ''Exallandra'' is a subgenus of hoverflies in the subfamily Syrphinae, within the genus ''Sphaerophoria''.Ximo Mengual, Gunilla Ståhls & Jeffrey H. Skevington (2021) Life on an island: the phylogenetic placement of ''Loveridgeana'' and Afrotrop ...

'' placed within which obviously complicates matters. A more complete review is needed before any major taxonomic changes can occur i.e. splitting the genus up or incorporating related genera, though the former subgenus ''

Fazia {{For, the genus of hoverflies, Fazia (fly) FAZIA stands for the Four Pi A and Z Identification Array. This is a project which aims at building a new 4pi particle detector for charged particles. It will operate in the domain of heavy-ion induced ...

'' was elevated to genus in 2020.Ximo Mengual, Gunilla Ståhls & Jeffrey H. Skevington (2021) Life on an island: the phylogenetic placement of ''Loveridgeana'' and Afrotropical ''Sphaerophoria'' (Diptera: Syrphidae) inferred from molecular characters, Systematics and Biodiversity, 19:1, 22-53, DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1795743

List of species by subgenus or species group

Subgenus ''

Allograpta ''Allograpta '' is a very large and diverse genus of hoverflies present throughout the world except most of the palearctic region. The adults are brightly coloured flower pollinators and most larvae have a predatory feeding mode involving soft-bo ...

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, 1875 ''Allograpta obliqua'' species group (

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

) *'' A. borbonica'' Kassebeer, 2000 *'' A. calopoides'' ( Curran, 1938) *'' A. calopus'' ( Loew, 1858) *'' A. fuscotibialis'' ( Macquart, 1842) *'' A. hypoxantha'' ( Bezzi, 1923) *'' A. nasuta'' ( Macquart, 1842) *'' A. nigra'' (Keiser, 1971) *'' A. nummularia'' ( Bezzi, 1920) *'' A. phaeoptera'' ( Bezzi, 1920) *'' A. rediviva'' ( Bezzi, 1915) *'' A. rufifacies'' (Keiser, 1971) *'' A. tenella'' (Keiser, 1971) *'' A. varipes'' ( Curran, 1927) (

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Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

) *'' A. dravida'' Ghorpade, 1994 *'' A. javana'' ( Wiedemann, 1824) *'' A. kinabalensis'' ( Curran, 1931) *'' A. maculipleura'' ( Brunetti, 1913) *'' A. maritima'' Mutin, 1986 *'' A. medanensis'' ( Meijere, 1914) *'' A. obscuricornis'' Meijere, 1914 *'' A. philippina''

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, 1946 *'' A. purpureicollis'' (

, 1946) *'' A. robinsoni'' ( Curran, 1928) (

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) *'' A. amphoterum'' ( Bezzi, 1928) *'' A. atkinsoni'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. australensis'' ( Schiner, 1868) *'' A. buruensis'' Meijere, 1929 *'' A. citronella'' (Shiraki, 1963) *'' A. distincta'' (

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, 1899) *'' A. flavofaciens'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. hirsutifera'' (Hull, 1949) *'' A. hudsoni'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. longulus'' (Shiraki, 1963) *'' A. neofasciata'' Thompson, 1989 *'' A. pallida'' ( Bigot, 1884) *'' A. pseudoropalus'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. ropalus'' ( Walker, 1849) *'' A. septemvittata'' (Shiraki, 1963) (

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& Neotropical) *'' A. aeruginosifrons'' ( Schiner, 1868) *'' A. annulipes'' ( Macquart, 1850) *'' A. aperta'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. bilineella'' Enderlein, 1938 *'' A. browni'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. exotica'' ( Wiedemann, ) /small> *'' A. falcata'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. hastata'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. hortensis'' (Pjilippi, 1865) *'' A. insularis'' Thompson, 1981 *'' A. limbata'' (

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, 1805) *'' A. neotropica'' Curran, 1936 *'' A. nigripilosa'' (Hull, 1944) *'' A. obliqua'' (

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, 1823) *'' A. obscuricornis'' ( Meijere, 1914) *'' A. philippina'' (

, 1946) *'' A. piurana'' Shannon, 1927 *'' A. pulchra'' Shannon, 1927 *'' A. radiata'' Bigot, 1857 *'' A. robinsoniana'' Enderlein, 1938 *'' A. splendens'' (

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, 1869) *'' A. tectiforma'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. teligera'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. trilimbata'' Bigot, 1889 ''Allograpta alamacula'' species group *'' A. alamacula'' Carver, 2003 ''Allograpta ventralis'' species group *'' A. dorsalis'' (Miller, 1924) *'' A. ventralis'' (Miller, 1921) Subgenus '' Antillus'' Vockeroth, 1969 *'' A. ascita'' (Vockeroth, 1969) Subgenus '' Claraplumula'' Shannon, 1927 *'' A. latifacies'' (Shannon, 1927) Subgenus '' Rhinoprosopa'' Hull, 1942 *'' A. aenea'' (Hull, 1937) *'' A. flavophylla'' (Hull, 1943) *'' A. lucifera'' (Hull, 1943) *'' A. neonasuta'' Thompson, *'' A. sycorax'' (Hull, 1947) Subgenus ''

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'' Thompson, 2012 *'' A. zumbadoi'' Thompson, 2000 *'' A. nishida'' Mengual & Thompson, 2009 unranked *'' A. neosplendens'' Thompson, in litt.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2749164 Syrphini Hoverfly genera Diptera of North America Diptera of South America Diptera of Asia Diptera of Australasia Diptera of Africa Taxa named by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken