Polybiomyia

Polybiomyia
Polybiomyia engelhardti missing antennae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Tribe:	Cerioidini
Genus:	Polybiomyia Shannon, 1925

Polybiomyia is a genus of hoverfly. ^[1]

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  Polybiomyia bellardii
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  Polybiomyia lyncharribalzagai
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  Polybiomyia schnablei
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  Frontal prominence
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  antennae

Systematics

Species include:

• Polybiomyia ablepta (Riek, 1954) ^[2]
• Polybiomyia arietis (Loew, 1853)
• Polybiomyia bassleri (Curran, 1941) ^[3]
• Polybiomyia bellardii (Shannon, 1925)
• Polybiomyia bequaerti (Curran, 1938)
• Polybiomyia bolivari (Thompson & Wyatt, 2015)
• Polybiomyia divisa (Walker, 1857)
• Polybiomyia engelhardti (Shannon, 1925)
• Polybiomyia lyncharribalzagai (Shannon, 1927)
• Polybiomyia macquarti (Shannon, 1925)
• Polybiomyia nigra (Bigot, 1884)
• Polybiomyia odontomera (Curran, 1941) ^[3]
• Polybiomyia pedicellata (Williston, 1887)
• Polybiomyia plaumanni (Curran, 1941) ^[3]
• Polybiomyia rufibasis (Bigot, 1884)
• Polybiomyia sayi (Shannon, 1925)
• Polybiomyia schnablei (Williston, 1892)
• Polybiomyia schwarzi (Shannon, 1925)
• Polybiomyia signifera (Loew, 1853)
• Polybiomyia townsendi (Snow, 1895)
• Polybiomyia travassosi (Lane & Carrera, 1943)

Genera of Cerioidini ^{[4] [5]}

Genus	frontal prominence	abdominal segment 1	abdominal segment two constriction	abdominal segment 2 length	paraface	other
Ceriana	as long as scape	same size as segment 2	not constricted	wider than long	very short paraface	looping in third vein R4+5 with spur branch projecting into cell r4+5
Monoceromyia	as long as scape	wider than segment 2	strongly constricted	longer than wide		loop of vein R4+5 without Spur branch
Polybiomyia	absent or very short	shorter than segment 2	strongly constricted	longer than wide		vein R4+5 not looping
Primocerioides	shorter than scape		not constricted	wider than long	long paraface and large anterior tentorial pit	eyes and face pilose, vein R4+5 straight
Sphiximorpha	shorter than scape	wider than 2	slightly constricted anteriomedially	longer than wide	long paraface and large or deep anterior tentorial pit.	Facial tubercle weak to nearly absent. vein R4+5 not looping.

References

1. Ricarte, A., Marcos-garcía, M. A., Rotheray, G. E. & Hancock, E. G. (2007). The Early Stages and Breeding Sites of 10 Cerioidini Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(6):914-924 doi : 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[914:TESABS]2.0.CO;2
2. Riek, EF (1954). "The Australian syrphid flies of the subfamily cerioidinae (Diptera: Syrphidae): Systematics and wing folding". Australian Journal of Zoology. 2 (1): 100–130. doi:10.1071/ZO9540100.
3. Curran, C.H (1941). "New American Syrphidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 78: 243–304.
4. Shannon, Raymond (1927). "Notes on and descriptions of Syrphid flies of the subfamily Cerioidinae". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 17: 38–53.
5. Brunetti, Enrico (1923). Diptera Vol. III. Pipunculidae, Syrphidae, Conopidae, Oestridae. London, England: Taylor and Francis. pp. 1–424.