Saccopheronta Explained

Saccopheronta is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is considered a synonym of Medetera by some authors (with its species treated as the Medetera aberrans group),^{[1] [2]} and a valid genus by others.^{[3] [4]}

Species

• Saccopheronta aberrans (Wheeler, 1899)
• Saccopheronta abrupta (Van Duzee, 1919)
• Saccopheronta albitarsis (Van Duzee, 1931)
• Saccopheronta amplimanus (Van Duzee, 1931)
• Saccopheronta aperta Negrobov, Vanschuytbroeck & Grichanov, 1981
• Saccopheronta archboldi (Robinson, 1975)^[5]
• Saccopheronta arnaudi Negrobov, Vanschuytbroeck & Grichanov, 1981
• Saccopheronta bella (Van Duzee, 1929)
• Saccopheronta caffra (Curran, 1927)
• Saccopheronta dilatata (Becker, 1922)
• Saccopheronta excavata (Becker, 1922)
• Saccopheronta flabellifera (Becker, 1922)
• Saccopheronta flavides (Negrobov & Thuneberg, 1970)
• Saccopheronta fletcheri Grichanov, 1997
• Saccopheronta glabra Negrobov, Vanschuytbroeck & Grichanov, 1981
• Saccopheronta gomwa (Bickel, 1987)^[6]
• Saccopheronta hirsuticosta Parent, 1935
• Saccopheronta jamaicensis (Curran, 1928)
• Saccopheronta luzonensis (Bickel, 1987)^[6]
• Saccopheronta maai (Bickel, 1987)^[6]
• Saccopheronta metallina (Becker, 1922)
• Saccopheronta mindanensis (Bickel, 1987)^[6]
• Saccopheronta minor (Becker, 1922)
• Saccopheronta nigra Vanschuytbroeck, 1960
• Saccopheronta nigrimanus (Van Duzee, 1931)
• Saccopheronta nigritibia Negrobov, Vanschuytbroeck & Grichanov, 1981
• Saccopheronta nudipes Becker, 1914
• Saccopheronta occidentalis (Schiner, 1868)
• Saccopheronta ovata (Van Duzee, 1931)
• Saccopheronta pallidicornis (Van Duzee, 1929)
• Saccopheronta parvilamellata Parent, 1938
• Saccopheronta pedestris (Becker, 1922)
• Saccopheronta planipes (Van Duzee, 1919)
• Saccopheronta platychira (De Meijere, 1916)
• Saccopheronta pollinosa (Van Duzee, 1929)
• Saccopheronta pulchra Vanschuytbroeck, 1951
• Saccopheronta quinta Parent, 1936
• Saccopheronta scaura (Van Duzee, 1929)
• Saccopheronta setosa (Parent, 1931)
• Saccopheronta shatalkini Grichanov, 1997
• Saccopheronta spinulata (Parent, 1931)
• Saccopheronta steyskali (Robinson, 1975)^[5]
• Saccopheronta varipes (Van Duzee, 1929)
• Saccopheronta viridiventris (Van Duzee, 1933)
• Saccopheronta vockerothi (Bickel, 1985)
• Saccopheronta zicsiana Grichanov, 1997

Notes and References

1. Bickel. D.J.. 1985. A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Technical Bulletin. Technical bulletin 1692 . United States Department of Agriculture. 1692. 1–109. 10.22004/ag.econ.309598. free. 0082-9811.
2. Naglis. S.. Bickel. D. J.. 2012. Medetera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa. 3188. 1. 55–63. 10.11646/zootaxa.3188.1.4. 3942755.
3. Negrobov. O.P.. Vanschuytbroeck. P.. Grichanov. I.Ya. 1981. The species of the genus Saccopheronta (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 53. 4. 1–11.
4. Grichanov. I.Ya.. 1997. Four new species of Saccopheronta Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tropical Africa with notes on the world fauna of the genus. International Journal of Dipterological Research. 8. 3. 123–134.
5. Robinson. Harold. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. The Family Dolichopodidae with Some Related Antillean and Panamanian Species (Diptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1975. 185. 1–141. 185 . 10.5479/si.00810282.185. free. 10088/5375. free.
6. Bickel. Daniel J.. A revision of the Oriental and Australian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).. Records of the Australian Museum. 1987. 39. 4. 195–259. 22 December 2016. Australian Museum. Sydney. 0067-1975. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.170. 12 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170512185332/https://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/17676/170_complete.pdf. dead.