Chamaesphegina

Chamaesphegina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Eristalinae
Tribe:	Brachyopini
Genus:	Chamaesphegina; Shannon & Aubertin 1922[1]
Type species
	Chamaesphegina argentifacies; Shannon & Aubertin, 1933[1]

Chamaesphegina is a genus of South American hoverflies.[2]

Description

Shining bare elongate flies, face concave, with slightly projecting epistome. The hind margin of the scutellum forming a well defined ridge. Abdomen is elongate and more or less parallel sided, wings are long and slender. Legs are simple, with the hind femora with minute bristles. The genus was first described from 4 female specimens.[1]

Species

C. argentifacies Shannon & Aubertin, 1933[1]
C. macra (Enderlein, 1938)[3]

References

Shannon, Raymond C.; Aubertin, D. (1933). Syrphidae. Diptera Patagonia & South Chile. 4. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 120–170.
Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Sedman, Y. S. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
Enderlein, G. (1938). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Syrphiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1939: 192–237.

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[ShannonAubertin-1] Shannon, Raymond C.; Aubertin, D. (1933). Syrphidae. Diptera Patagonia & South Chile. 4. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 120–170.

[Thompson-2] Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Sedman, Y. S. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. Retrieved 2 February 2011.

[Enderlein1938-3] Enderlein, G. (1938). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Syrphiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1939: 192–237.