Cephalosphaera (fly) explained

Cephalosphaera is a genus of flies belonging to the family Pipunculidae.^[1]

Species

• Cephalosphaera acuminata (Cresson, 1911)^[2]
• Cephalosphaera aequatorialis (Becker, 1919)^[3]
• Cephalosphaera amboinalis (Walker, 1860)^[4]
• Cephalosphaera appendiculata (Cresson, 1911)^[2]
• Cephalosphaera arnaudi Rafael, 1992^[5]
• Cephalosphaera baltica Carpenter & Hull, 1939^[6]
• Cephalosphaera biscaynei (Cresson, 1912)^[7]
• Cephalosphaera boutropis (Hardy, 1965)^[8]
• Cephalosphaera brevis (Cresson, 1911)^[2]
• Cephalosphaera collarti (Hardy, 1952)^[9]
• Cephalosphaera cristata Rafael, 1992^[5]
• Cephalosphaera eukrenaina Skevington, 1999^[10]
• Cephalosphaera fairchildi Rafael, 1992^[5]
• Cephalosphaera filicera (De Meyer, 1990)^[11]
• Cephalosphaera furcata (Egger, 1860)
• Cephalosphaera germanica Aczél, 1940^[12]
• Cephalosphaera guanacastensis Rafael & Menezes, 1999^[13]
• Cephalosphaera gymne De Meyer & Grootaert, 1990^[14]
• Cephalosphaera hikosanus (Morakote, 1990)^[15]
• Cephalosphaera hirashimai (Morakote, 1990)^[15]
• Cephalosphaera honshuensis (Morakote, 1990)^[15]
• Cephalosphaera immodica De Meyer & Grootaert, 1990^[14]
• Cephalosphaera incomitata (Hardy, 1965)^[8]
• Cephalosphaera insularis Rafael, 1996^[16]
• Cephalosphaera inusitata (Hardy, 1972)^[17]
• Cephalosphaera jamaicensis (Johnson, 1919)^[18]
• Cephalosphaera kasparjani (Kuznetzov, 1990)^[19]
• Cephalosphaera macroctenia Rafael, 1992^[5]
• Cephalosphaera magnispinosus (Hardy, 1950)^[20]
• Cephalosphaera maxima Hardy, 1943^[21]
• Cephalosphaera miriamae Rafael, 1992^[5]
• Cephalosphaera mocaensis (Hardy, 1948)^[22]
• Cephalosphaera motichoorensis (Kapoor, Grewal & Sharma, 1987)^[23]
• Cephalosphaera pacaraima Rafael & Rosa, 1992^[24]
• Cephalosphaera pallidifemoralis (Hardy, 1952)^[9]
• Cephalosphaera parthenopipis Skevington, 1999^[10]
• Cephalosphaera patula (Hardy, 1972)^[17]
• Cephalosphaera petila Skevington, 1999^[10]
• Cephalosphaera prionotaina Skevington, 1999^[10]
• Cephalosphaera procera Rafael & Menezes, 1999^[13]
• Cephalosphaera reducta (De Meyer, 1990)^[11]
• Cephalosphaera redunca (Hardy, 1972)^[17]
• Cephalosphaera santiagoensis Rafael, 1992^[5]
• Cephalosphaera sapporoensis (Morakote, 1990)^[15]
• Cephalosphaera semispiralis Rafael & Rosa, 1992^[24]
• Cephalosphaera sylvana (Brunetti, 1927)^[25]
• Cephalosphaera tingens (Hardy, 1972)^[17]
• Cephalosphaera vietnamensis (Hardy, 1972)^[17]
• Cephalosphaera wauensis De Meyer & Grootaert, 1990^[14]
• Cephalosphaera xanthosternum (Hardy, 1968)^[26]
• Cephalosphaera zumbadoi Rafael & Menezes, 1999^[13]

Notes and References

1. Book: Coe . R.L. . Pipunculidae . Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects . 1966 . 10 . 2c . 83 . 22 July 2022.
2. Cresson . E. T. Jr. . Studies in North America dipterology: Pipunculidae [concl.] ]. Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1911 . 36 . 291–329 . 27 July 2022.
3. Book: Becker . Theodor . Diptères, brachycères. Mission du Service Geographique de l'Armée pour la mesure d'un arc de méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud sous le contrôle scientifique de l'Académie des Sciences, 1899-1906 . 1919 . Gauthier-Villars . Paris . 163 . 25 November 2018.
4. Walker . F. . Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Amboyna by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species . Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology . 1860 . 5 (suppl.) . 144–168 . 27 January 2021.
5. Book: Rafael . J.A. . Review of the Neotropical species of big-headed flies, genus Cephalosphaera (Diptera: Pipunculidae). Pp. 633-646. In Quintero, D. & Aiello, A. (eds.), Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica. Selected studies. xxii + 692 pp . 1992 . Oxford Science Publs. . Oxford.
6. Carpenter . F.M. . Hull . F.M. . The fossil Pipunculidae . Bernstein-Forschung . 1939 . 4 . 8–17.
7. Cresson . E. T. Jr. . Studies of some Pipunculidae from the eastern United States (Diptera) . Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 1912 . 23 . 452–456 . 27 July 2022.
8. Hardy . D.E. . The Pipunculidae of Argentina . Acta Zoologica Lilloana . 1965 . 19[1963] . 187–241.
9. Hardy . D.E. . Bibionidae and Dorilaidae in the collection of the Musee du Congo Belge . Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines . 1952 . 44 . 159–167.
10. Skevington . J.H. . Cephalosphaera Enderlein, a genus of Pipunculidae (Diptera) new for Australia, with descriptions of four new species . Aust. J. Entomol. . 1999 . 38 . 4 . 247–256. 10.1046/j.1440-6055.1999.00118.x .
11. De Meyer . M. . Systematics of the Nearctic species of the genus Cephalops Fallen (Diptera, Pipunculidae) . Bulletin de l'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie . 1990 . (1989) 69 . 99–130 . 19 August 2022.
12. Aczél . M.L. . Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Dorylaiden (Diptera). Dorylaiden-Studien V . Zoologischer Anzeiger . 1940 . 132 . 149–169.
13. Rafael . J.A. . Menezes . M.D.S. . Taxonomic review of Costa Rican Pipunculidae (Diptera, Insecta) . Revista de Biología Tropical . 1999 . 47 . 3 . 513–534 . 4 August 2022.
14. De Meyer . M. . Grootaert . P. . Pipunculidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea: The genera Cephalosphaera, Cephalops and Beckerias . Zoologica Scripta . 1990 . 19 . 4 . 403–412. 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00267.x . 84322511 .
15. Morakote . Rut . Hirashima . Y. . A systematic study of the Japanese Pipunculidae (Diptera) Part III. The genus Cephalops Fallen . J. Fac. Agric., Kyushu Univ. . 1990 . 34 . 182–214 . 26 July 2022.
16. Rafael . José A. . Pipunculidae (Insecta: Diptera) of the Dominican Republic: New records and description of new species . Ann. Carnegie Mus. . 1996 . 65 . 4 . 363–381 . 10.5962/p.215136 . 90001604 . 5 August 2022. free .
17. Hardy . D.E. . Studies on Pipunculidae (Diptera) of the Oriental Region, Part I . Oriental Insects Supplement . 1972 . 2 . 1–76.
18. Johnson . C.W. . A revised list of the Diptera of Jamaica . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 1919 . 41 . 421–449 . 30 March 2022.
19. Kuznetzov . S.Y. . New Palaearctic species of Pipunculidae (Diptera) . International Journal of Dipterological Research . 1990 . 1 . 23–50.
20. Hardy . D.E. . Dorilaidae, Diptera . Exploration du Parc National Albert, Mission G.F. De Witte (1933-35) . 1950 . 62 . 1–51.
21. Hardy . D.E. . A revision of Nearctic Dorilaidae (Pipunculidae) . Kansas University Science Bulletin . 1943 . 29 . 1 . 3–231. 8 pls . 27 July 2022.
22. Hardy . D.E. . New and little known Neotropical Dorilaidae . Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 1948 . 21 . 4 . 124–133.
23. Book: Kapoor . V.C. . Grewal . J.S. . Sharma . S.K. . Indian pipunculids (Diptera: Pipunculidae) . 1987 . Atlantic Publ . New Delhi . 201.
24. Rafael . J.A. . Rosa . M.S.S. . Pipunculidae (Diptera) da estacao ecologica de Maraca e da Localidade de Pacaraima, Roraima, Brasil. . Acta Amazonica . 1992 . 21 . 337–350 . 10.1590/1809-43921991211350 . 28 July 2022. free .
25. Brunetti . E. . Notes on Malaya Diptera, with descriptions of new species . J. Fed. Malay States Mus. . 1927 . 13 . 281–309.
26. Hardy . D.E. . Bibionidae and Pipunculidae of the Philippines and Bismarck Islands (Diptera) . Entomologiske Meddelelser . 1968 . 36 . 417–507 . 27 July 2022.