Pherbina
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''Pherbina'' is a genus of
flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...
in the family
Sciomyzidae The family (biology), family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order (biology), order Fly, Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae. Here, t ...
, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.


Species

*'' P. coryleti'' (
Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Au ...
, 1763)
*'' P. intermedia'' Verbeke, 1948 *'' P. mediterranea'' Mayer, 1953 *'' P. testacea'' (Sack, 1939)


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14660003 Sciomyzidae Sciomyzoidea genera