Symphoromyia

Symphoromyia
Symphoromyia immaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Brachycera
Infraorder:	Tabanomorpha
Superfamily:
Family:	Rhagionidae
Subfamily:	Rhagioninae
Genus:	Symphoromyia Frauenfeld, 1867
Type species
Meigen,1820
Subgenera
Becker, 1922 Frauenfeld, 1867

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 .

Species[]

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• Leonard, 1931
• Bigot, 1887
• Aldrich, 1915
• Turner, 1973
• S. cinerea Johnson, 1903
• S. crassicornis (Panzer, 1806)
• Coquillett, 1894
• Leonard, 1931
• Bigot, 1887
• S. hirta Johnson, 1897
• S. immaculata (Meigen, 1804)
• Turner, 1973
• Aldrich, 1915
• Aldrich, 1915
• Coquillett, 1894
• Aldrich, 1915
• Coquillett, 1894
• (Meigen, 1820)
• Aldrich, 1915
• Turner, 1973
• Williston, 1886
• Aldrich, 1915
• Williston, 1886
• Curran, 1930
• Aldrich, 1915
• Coquillett, 1894
• S. sackeni Aldrich, 1915
• Coquillett, 1904
• Yang & Yang, 1997
• Chvála, 1983
• Bigot, 1887
• Coquillett, 1894
• Turner, 1973
• (Loew, 1872)

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