Fazia Shannon

Mengual, Ximo, Ruiz, Carlos, Rojo, Santos, Ståhls, Gunilla & Thompson, Christian, 2009, A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new subgenus and species, Zootaxa 2214, pp. 1-28 : 16

Subgenus Fazia Shannon

Fazia Shannon 1927: 25 . Type-species, bullaephora Shannon (original designation) = decemmaculata (Rondani) . Chasmia Enderlein 1938a: 213 (preoccupied by Enderlein 1922). Type-species, hians Enderlein (original designation). Metepistrophe Hull 1949b: 293 (as subgenus of Epistrophe ). Type-species, Epistrophe altissima Fluke (original designation). Misidentified type-species. Originally named type was Epistrophe remigis Fluke , but Fluke (1951) noted that the specimen used by Hull was mislabelled by him and was actually altissima Fluke. Hence , under Article 70.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), we hereby fixed the type species of Metepistrophe Hull to the taxonomical species, altissima Fluke.

Metallograpta Hull 1949b: 293 (as subgenus of Epistrophe ). Type-species, Allograpta colombia Curran (original designation).

Diagnosis. Face moderately to greatly produced anteriorly, with distinct tubercle; oral opening about 5 times as long as wide, with oral apex greatly extended beyond level of antennal base; antennal pits separate; plumula well developed; subscutellar pile fringe distinct, one or two rows of long pili; wing broadly bare basomedially, without apical dark macula ; alula broad, about 1.5 times as broad as cell BM; metasternum pilose; abdomen broadly to narrowly elongate.

Included species. NEARCTIC: ** micrura Osten Sacken 1877: 330 (Sphaerophoria) NE: British Columbia, south to California, Texas & Mexico [= picticauda Bigot 1884: 102 (Sphaerophoria) , = trifasciata Enderlein 1938a: 218 (Allograpta) , = transversa Hull 1943a: 32 (Sphaerophoria) ].

NEOTROPICAL: ** alta Curran 1936: 15 ( Allograpta ) Colombia , Ecuador [= flavomaculata Hull 1937b: 169 (Allograpta) ]; ** altissima Fluke 1942: 10 (Epistrophe) Ecuador; ** argentipila Fluke 1942: 13 (Epistrophe) Ecuador, Peru, Argentina; ** centropogonis Nishida in Nishida et al. 2002: 423 ( Allograpta ) Costa Rica; ** colombia Curran 1925a: 349 (Allograpta) Colombia , Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina; * decemmaculata Rondani 1863: 12 (Syrphus) Chile, Ecuador [= bullaephora Shannon 1927: 25 (Fazia) ]; ** eupeltata Bigot 1884: 91 (Syrphus) Mexico [= mexicana Enderlein 1938a: 212 (Fazia) ]; ** fasciata Curran 1932: 4 (Allograpta) Ecuador, Peru [= bisinterrupta Enderlein 1938a: 210 (Fazia) ]; ** fascifrons Macquart 1846: 265 (Syrphus) Colombia , Ecuador [= armillata Fluke 1942: 12 (Epistrophe) ]; ** flukei Curran 1936: 13 (Allograpta) Cuba; ** funeralia Hull 1944b: 27 (Epistrophe) NT: Jamaica; ** hians Enderlein 1938a: 213 (Chasmia) Mexico; * imitator Curran 1925a: 351 (Epistrophe) Colombia , Ecuador, Bolivia; ** luna Fluke 1942: 8 (Epistrophe) Ecuador; * macquarti Blanchard 1852: 411 (Syrphus) Chile, Argentina [= australis Shannon 1927: 26 (Fazia) ]; mu Bigot 1884: 105 ( Mesograpta ) Mexico; ** nasigera Enderlein 1938a: 212 (Fazia) Colombia; ** plaumanni Frey 1946: 168 (Microsphaerophoria) Brazil; ** remigis Fluke 1942: 9 (Epistrophe) Ecuador; ** roburoris Fluke 1942: 11 (Epistrophe) Ecuador, Argentina; ** rostrata Bigot 1884: 102 (Sphaerophoria) Mexico [= nasuta Enderlein 1938a: 214 (Chasmia) , = rhina Thompson in Thompson et al. 1976: 37 ( Allograpta )]; ** saussurii Giglio-Tos 1892: 2 (Syrphus) Mexico; ** similis Curran 1925a: 350 (Allograpta) Colombia , Brazil, Argentina; ** strigifacies Enderlein 1938a: 211 (Fazia) Brazil [= hermosa Hull 1941: 48 (Allograpta) , = brunneola Frey 1946: 170 (Neoscaeva) ]; ** syrphica Giglio-Tos 1892: 2 (Sphaerophoria) Mexico; ** willistoni Giglio-Tos 1893: 31 (Sphaerophoria) Mexico [= forreri Giglio-Tos 1893: 32 (Sphaerophoria) ].