''Allograpta '' is a very large and diverse

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

hoverflies Hover flies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, whi ...

present throughout the world except most of the

palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...

region. The adults are brightly coloured flower pollinators and most larvae have a predatory feeding mode involving soft-bodied

sternorrhyncha The Sternorrhyncha suborder of the Hemiptera contains the aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects, groups which were traditionally included in the now-obsolete order "Homoptera". "Sternorrhyncha" refers to the rearward position of the mouthparts re ...

ns. Certain species have diverged from this and their larvae have been found to be

leaf-miner A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths ( Lepidoptera), sawflies ( Symphyta, the mother clade of wasp ...

s, stem-borers or pollen-feeders. ''Allograpta'' is currently being studied using both molecular and morphological methods to produce a robust phylogeny of the

and its related

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

. Preliminary studies show the genus to be

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic ...

with the genera '' Sphaerophoria'' and ''

Exallandra ''Exallandra'' is a subgenus of hoverflies in the subfamily Syrphinae, within the genus ''Sphaerophoria''.Ximo Mengual, Gunilla Ståhls & Jeffrey H. Skevington (2021) Life on an island: the phylogenetic placement of ''Loveridgeana'' and Afrotrop ...

'' placed within which obviously complicates matters. A more complete review is needed before any major taxonomic changes can occur i.e. splitting the genus up or incorporating related genera, though the former subgenus '' Fazia'' was elevated to genus in 2020.Ximo Mengual, Gunilla Ståhls & Jeffrey H. Skevington (2021) Life on an island: the phylogenetic placement of ''Loveridgeana'' and Afrotropical ''Sphaerophoria'' (Diptera: Syrphidae) inferred from molecular characters, Systematics and Biodiversity, 19:1, 22-53, DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1795743

List of species by subgenus or species group

Subgenus '' Allograpta''

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, 1875 ''Allograpta obliqua'' species group (

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

) *'' A. borbonica'' Kassebeer, 2000 *'' A. calopoides'' (

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, 1938) *'' A. calopus'' ( Loew, 1858) *'' A. fuscotibialis'' ( Macquart, 1842) *'' A. hypoxantha'' (

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, 1923) *'' A. nasuta'' ( Macquart, 1842) *'' A. nigra'' (Keiser, 1971) *'' A. nummularia'' (

, 1920) *'' A. phaeoptera'' (

, 1920) *'' A. rediviva'' (

, 1915) *'' A. rufifacies'' (Keiser, 1971) *'' A. tenella'' (Keiser, 1971) *'' A. varipes'' (

, 1927) (

Oriental The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of '' Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the ...

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...

) *'' A. dravida'' Ghorpade, 1994 *'' A. javana'' (

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, 1824) *'' A. kinabalensis'' (

, 1931) *'' A. maculipleura'' ( Brunetti, 1913) *'' A. maritima'' Mutin, 1986 *'' A. medanensis'' ( Meijere, 1914) *'' A. obscuricornis'' Meijere, 1914 *'' A. philippina''

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, 1946 *'' A. purpureicollis'' (

, 1946) *'' A. robinsoni'' (

, 1928) (

Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecolo ...

Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a region, geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern Hemisphere, Eastern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of ...

) *'' A. amphoterum'' (

, 1928) *'' A. atkinsoni'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. australensis'' ( Schiner, 1868) *'' A. buruensis'' Meijere, 1929 *'' A. citronella'' (Shiraki, 1963) *'' A. distincta'' ( Kertész, 1899) *'' A. flavofaciens'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. hirsutifera'' (Hull, 1949) *'' A. hudsoni'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. longulus'' (Shiraki, 1963) *'' A. neofasciata'' Thompson, 1989 *'' A. pallida'' ( Bigot, 1884) *'' A. pseudoropalus'' (Miller, 1921) *'' A. ropalus'' (

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, 1849) *'' A. septemvittata'' (Shiraki, 1963) (

Nearctic The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bi ...

) *'' A. aeruginosifrons'' ( Schiner, 1868) *'' A. annulipes'' ( Macquart, 1850) *'' A. aperta'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. bilineella'' Enderlein, 1938 *'' A. browni'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. exotica'' (

, ) /small> *'' A. falcata'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. hastata'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. hortensis'' (Pjilippi, 1865) *'' A. insularis'' Thompson, 1981 *'' A. limbata'' (

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, 1805) *'' A. neotropica''

, 1936 *'' A. nigripilosa'' (Hull, 1944) *'' A. obliqua'' ( Say, 1823) *'' A. obscuricornis'' ( Meijere, 1914) *'' A. philippina'' (

, 1946) *'' A. piurana'' Shannon, 1927 *'' A. pulchra'' Shannon, 1927 *'' A. radiata'' Bigot, 1857 *'' A. robinsoniana'' Enderlein, 1938 *'' A. splendens'' ( Thomson, 1869) *'' A. tectiforma'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. teligera'' Fluke, 1942 *'' A. trilimbata'' Bigot, 1889 ''Allograpta alamacula'' species group *'' A. alamacula'' Carver, 2003 ''Allograpta ventralis'' species group *'' A. dorsalis'' (Miller, 1924) *'' A. ventralis'' (Miller, 1921) Subgenus '' Antillus'' Vockeroth, 1969 *'' A. ascita'' (Vockeroth, 1969) Subgenus '' Claraplumula'' Shannon, 1927 *'' A. latifacies'' (Shannon, 1927) Subgenus '' Rhinoprosopa'' Hull, 1942 *'' A. aenea'' (Hull, 1937) *'' A. flavophylla'' (Hull, 1943) *'' A. lucifera'' (Hull, 1943) *'' A. neonasuta'' Thompson, *'' A. sycorax'' (Hull, 1947) Subgenus '' Tiquicia'' Thompson, 2012 *'' A. zumbadoi'' Thompson, 2000 *'' A. nishida'' Mengual & Thompson, 2009 unranked *'' A. neosplendens'' Thompson, in litt.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2749164 Syrphini Hoverfly genera Diptera of North America Diptera of South America Diptera of Asia Diptera of Australasia Diptera of Africa Taxa named by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken