Symphoromyia Explained

Symphoromyia (meaning bane/blight fly in Greek) is a genus of predatory snipe flies. Unusually for Rhagionids, some species of Symphoromyia are known to feed on mammal blood, including human blood. Symphoromyia species are stout bodied flies from 4.5 to 9 mm and with a black, grey or gold thorax, and the abdomen is coloured grey, black, or both black and yellow, black terminating with yellow, to completely yellow. The wings are hyaline or lightly infuscate.

Species

• Symphoromyia algens Leonard, 1931^[1]
• Symphoromyia atripes Bigot, 1887^[2]
• Symphoromyia barbata Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia cervivora Turner & Chillcott, 1973^[4]
• Symphoromyia cinerea Johnson, 1903^[5]
• Symphoromyia clerci Ngô-Muller & Nel, 2020^[6]
• Symphoromyia crassicornis (Panzer, 1808)^[7]
• Symphoromyia cruenta Coquillett, 1894^[8]
• Symphoromyia currani Leonard, 1931^[1]
• Symphoromyia evecta (Meunier, 1910)^[9]
• Symphoromyia examinata (Meunier, 1910)^[9]
• Symphoromyia exigua (Meunier, 1910)^[9]
• Symphoromyia fulvipes Bigot, 1887^[2]
• Symphoromyia hirta Johnson, 1897^[10]
• Symphoromyia immaculata (Meigen, 1804)^[11]
• Symphoromyia inconspicua Turner & Chillcott, 1973^[4]
• Symphoromyia incorrupta Yang, Yang & Nagatomi, 1997^[12]
• Symphoromyia inquisitor Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia johnsoni Coquillett, 1894^[8]
• Symphoromyia kincaidi Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia limata Coquillett, 1894^[8]
• Symphoromyia liupanshana Yang, Dong & Zhang, 2016^[13]
• Symphoromyia marginata Théobald, 1937^[14]
• Symphoromyia melaena (Meigen, 1820)
• Symphoromyia montana Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia nana Turner & Chillcott, 1973^[4]
• Symphoromyia nigripilosa Yang, Dong & Zhang, 2016^[13]
• Symphoromyia pachyceras Williston, 1886^[15]
• Symphoromyia pallipilosa Yang, Dong & Zhang, 2016^[13]
• Symphoromyia pilosa Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia plagens Williston, 1886^[15]
• Symphoromyia pleuralis Curran, 1930^[16]
• Symphoromyia plumbea Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia pullata Coquillett, 1894^[8]
• Symphoromyia sackeni Aldrich, 1915^[3]
• Symphoromyia securifera Coquillett, 1904^[17]
• Symphoromyia sinensis Yang & Yang, 1997^[12]
• Symphoromyia spitzeri Chvála, 1983^[18]
• Symphoromyia subtrita Cockerell, 1911^[19]
• Symphoromyia succini Paramonov, 1938^[20]
• Symphoromyia tertiarica Paramonov, 1938^[20]
• Symphoromyia trivittata Bigot, 1887^[2]
• Symphoromyia trucis Coquillett, 1894^[8]
• Symphoromyia truncata Turner, 1973^[4]
• Symphoromyia varicornis (Loew, 1872)^[21]

Notes and References

1. Leonard . M.D. . Two new species of Symphoromyia (Rhagionidae, Diptera) from the eastern United States . American Museum Novitates . 1931 . 497 . 2 pp . 1 December 2022.
2. Bigot . J.M.F. . Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Leptidi J. B. (Meigen, System. Beschr., II, 1820) . Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France . 1887 . 12 . 97–118 . 29 August 2022.
3. Aldrich . J.M. . The dipterous genus Symphoromyia in North America . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1915 . 49 . 2099 . 113–142 . 10.5479/si.00963801.49-2099.113 . 30 November 2022.
4. Turner . W. . Chillcott . J.G. . Four new species of the Symphoromyia pachyceras complex complex from California (Diptera: Rhagionidae) . The Pan-Pacific Entomologist . 1973 . 49 . 5–20.
5. Johnson . C.W. . Some notes and descriptions of three new Leptidae . Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 1903 . 14 . 22–26 . 1 December 2022.
6. Ngo-Muller . V. . Nel . A. . A new Symphoromyia in the Middle Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera: Rhagionidae) . Zootaxa . 2020 . 4820 . 2 . 373–378. 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.2.10 . 33056074 . 222833751 .
7. Book: Panzer . G.W.F. . Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia oder Devtschlands Insecten. H. 73 . 1800 . Felsecker . Nurnberg [= Nuremberg] . 24 pp., 24 pls.
8. Coquillett . D.W. . Synopsis of the dipterous genus Symphoromyia . Journal of the New York Entomological Society . 1894 . 2 . 53–56 . 1 December 2022.
9. Meunier . F. . Monographie der Leptiden und der Phoriden des Bernsteins . Jahrb. Preuss. Geol. Landesanst. Berlin . 1910 . 30 (1909) . 64–90, 5 pls.
10. Johnson . C.W. . Some notes and descriptions of new Leptidae . Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 1897 . 8 . 117–120 . 1 December 2022.
11. Book: Meigen . J.W. . Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. (Diptera Linn.). Erster Band. Abt. I. Abt. II.. . 1804 . Reichard . Braunschweig [= Brunswick] . xxviii + pp. 1–152, vi + pp. 153–314.
12. Yang . D. . Yang . C.K. . Nagatomi . A. . The Rhagionidae of China (Diptera) . South Pacific Study . 1997 . 17 . 2 . 113–262.
13. Book: Yang . D. . Dong . H. . Zhang . K.Y. . Diptera. Rhagionidae Athericidae . 2016 . Fauna Sinica. Insecta . 65 . ii + 472 pp.
14. Book: Théobald . N. . Les insectes fossile des terrains oligocenes de France . 1937 . G. Thomas . Nancy . 473 + [1] pp.
15. Williston . S.W. . Dipterological notes and descriptions . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1886 . 13 . 287–304 . 21 August 2022.
16. Curran . Charles Howard . Report on the Diptera collected at the Station for the Study of Insects, Harriman Interstate Park, N.Y. Bulletin of the AMNH . . 1930 . 61 . 2.
17. Coquillett . Daniel William. New North American Diptera . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1904 . 6 . 166–192 . 6 May 2020.
18. Chvála . M. . First record of blood-sucking in palaearctic Rhagionidae (Diptera), with description of a new Symphoromyia of the crassicornis-group from Central Asia . Acta Ent. Bohem. . 1983 . 80 . 423–436.
19. Cockerell . T.D.A. . Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 1911 . 30 . 71–82.
20. Paramonov . S.J. . Zur Entomofauna der Bernsteins . Zbirnik Prats Zoologichnogo Muzeyu Ukrain'ska Akademya Nauk . 1936 . 18 . 53–64.
21. Loew . Hermann . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decima . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1872 . 16 . 49–124 . 10.1002/mmnd.18720160110 . 25 July 2021.