Silba (fly)

Silba
Silba fumosa, Italy
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Lonchaeidae
Subfamily:	Lonchaeinae
Tribe:	Lonchaeini
Genus:	Silba Macquart, 1851

Silba is a genus of lance flies in the family Lonchaeidae. There are more than 120 described species in Silba, found on every continent except South America and Antarctica. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

These 122 species belong to the genus Silba: ^{[1] [2]}

• Silba abstata McAlpine, 1956
• Silba adelosa McAlpine, 1964
• Silba adipata McAlpine, 1956
• Silba admirabilis McAlpine, 1956
• Silba albisquama (Kertész, 1901)
• Silba andasibe MacGowan, 2019
• Silba apodesma McAlpine, 1961
• Silba arcana McAlpine, 1961
• Silba atratula (Walker, 1860)
• Silba bakongo MacGowan, 2015
• Silba bambusae MacGowan, 2007
• Silba bidenticulata McAlpine, 1964
• Silba bifurcata MacGowan, 2005
• Silba bisulcata (Bezzi, 1920)
• Silba botanica MacGowan, 2007
• Silba boulangi MacGowan, 2015
• Silba bredoi MacGowan, 2015
• Silba breviplumosa MacGowan, 2007
• Silba budongo MacGowan, 2005
• Silba calceus MacGowan, 2005
• Silba caliginosa McAlpine, 1964
• Silba callida McAlpine, 1964
• Silba calva (Bezzi, 1914)
• Silba cameronia MacGowan, 2005
• Silba candidala McAlpine, 1964
• Silba capsicarum McAlpine, 1956
• Silba cascadens MacGowan, 2007
• Silba chalkei McAlpine, 1956
• Silba citricola (Bezzi, 1914)
• Silba combi MacGowan, 2007
• Silba consentanea (Walker, 1860)
• Silba cucumeris McAlpine, 1964
• Silba cupraria (Meijere, 1910)
• Silba denticulata MacGowan, 2005
• Silba devians (Hennig, 1948)
• Silba displata McAlpine, 1964
• Silba emulata McAlpine, 1964
• Silba erecta MacGowan & Ariomoto, 2020
• Silba erromango MacGowan, 2021
• Silba excisa (Kertész, 1901)
• Silba eximia McAlpine, 1964
• Silba ficiperda (Bezzi, 1914)
• Silba figurata MacGowan, 2005
• Silba filamenta MacGowan & Barták, 2022
• Silba flavitarsis MacGowan, 2004
• Silba foldvarii MacGowan, 2007
• Silba fumosa (Egger, 1863)
• Silba fungicola MacGowan, 2020
• Silba garamba MacGowan, 2015
• Silba gibbosa (Meijere, 1910)
• Silba gongeti MacGowan, 2005
• Silba hambai MacGowan, 2015
• Silba hebridensis MacGowan, 2021
• Silba hirticeps MacGowan, 2005
• Silba horridomedea McAlpine, 1964
• Silba imitata McAlpine, 1964
• Silba inimvua MacGowan, 2015
• Silba inubiwa MacGowan & Okamoto, 2020
• Silba ischnopoda Macgowan & Compton, 2018
• Silba ishigaki MacGowan & Okamoto, 2020
• Silba isla MacGowan, 2005
• Silba israel MacGowan & Freidberg, 2008
• Silba japonica MacGowan & Okamoto, 2020
• Silba kadavu MacGowan, 2014
• Silba kuantani MacGowan, 2023
• Silba laevis (Bezzi, 1920)
• Silba lashker MacGowan & Razak
• Silba longidentata MacGowan, 2007
• Silba longigonite MacGowan, 2019
• Silba longistylus MacGowan, 2005
• Silba lubumbashi MacGowan, 2015
• Silba lucens (Meijere, 1910)
• Silba macrogonite MacGowan, 2019
• Silba malaysia (MacGowan, 2005)
• Silba mbuti MacGowan, 2015
• Silba microcercosa MacGowan, 2007
• Silba mitis (Curran, 1927)
• Silba mitsuii MacGowan, 2020
• Silba montana (Brunetti, 1913)
• Silba namibia MacGowan, 2005
• Silba neozopherosa McAlpine, 1964
• Silba nepalensis MacGowan, 2006
• Silba nigrispicata MacGowan, 2007
• Silba nigritella (Malloch, 1930)
• Silba nudoscutella McAlpine, 1964
• Silba ophyroides (Bezzi, 1920)
• Silba pallicarpa (Bezzi, 1920)
• Silba papei MacGowan, 2005
• Silba pappi Soós, 1977
• Silba parasita (Séguy, 1933)
• Silba pencila MacGowan, 2019
• Silba perplexa (Walker, 1860)
• Silba plumosissima (Bezzi, 1919)
• Silba pollinosa (Kertész, 1901)
• Silba quadridentata MacGowan, 2005
• Silba ramuscula McAlpine, 1964
• Silba retalionis (McAlpine, 1964)
• Silba rotherayi MacGowan, 2005
• Silba saegeri MacGowan, 2015
• Silba schachti MacGowan, 2004
• Silba septuosa McAlpine, 1964
• Silba setifera (Meijere, 1910)
• Silba setigonite MacGowan, 2019
• Silba setiphallus MacGowan, 2014
• Silba silbacola (MacGowan, 2006)
• Silba spatulata MacGowan, 2005
• Silba spiculata MacGowan, 2015
• Silba spinosa MacGowan, 2005
• Silba srilanka McAlpine, 1975
• Silba taciturna (Walker, 1859)
• Silba taiwanica (Hennig, 1948)
• Silba tekei MacGowan, 2015
• Silba tenuipennis MacGowan, 2007
• Silba thunbergii MacGowan & Ariomoto, 2020
• Silba translucens MacGowan, 2007
• Silba trigena MacGowan, 2004
• Silba uganda MacGowan, 2005
• Silba uniformis (Malloch, 1930)
• Silba upemba MacGowan, 2015
• Silba vanemdeni McAlpine, 1975
• Silba virescens Macquart, 1851
• Silba wittei MacGowan, 2015

References

1. "GBIF, Silba" . Retrieved 2025-05-11.
2. "Catalogue of Life, Silba Macquart, 1851" . Retrieved 2025-05-11.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Silba at iNaturalist