Sphegina brevipilus information

Sphegina brevipilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Genus:	Sphegina
Species:	S. brevipilus
Binomial name
	Sphegina brevipilus; Hippa, Steenis & Mutin, 2018

Sphegina (Asiosphegina) brevipilus is a species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae found in China. It's similar to both S. (A.) plautus and S. (A.) simplex; it and S. (A.) plautus are the only known species with a sclerite between the bases of surstyli as well as posteriorly from the cerci.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Steenis, J. van; Hippa, H.; Mutin, V.A. (2018). "Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (489): 1–198. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.489. S2CID 165348351. Retrieved 13 November 2021. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) license.

[SteenisHippaMutin2018-1] Steenis, J. van; Hippa, H.; Mutin, V.A. (2018). "Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (489): 1–198. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.489. S2CID 165348351. Retrieved 13 November 2021. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) license.