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 infuscate.
Species
- Symphoromyia algens <small>Leonard, 1931</small>
- Symphoromyia atripes <small>Bigot, 1887</small>
- Symphoromyia barbata <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia cervivora <small>Turner & Chillcott, 1973</small>
- Symphoromyia cinerea <small>Johnson, 1903</small>
- Symphoromyia clerci <small>Ngô-Muller & Nel, 2020</small>
- Symphoromyia crassicornis <small>(Panzer, 1808)</small>
- Symphoromyia cruenta <small>Coquillett, 1894</small>
- Symphoromyia currani <small>Leonard, 1931</small>
- Symphoromyia evecta <small>(Meunier, 1910)</small>
- Symphoromyia examinata <small>(Meunier, 1910)</small>
- Symphoromyia exigua <small>(Meunier, 1910)</small>
- Symphoromyia fulvipes <small>Bigot, 1887</small>
- Symphoromyia hirta <small>Johnson, 1897</small>
- Symphoromyia immaculata <small>(Meigen, 1804)</small>
- Symphoromyia inconspicua <small>Turner & Chillcott, 1973</small>
- Symphoromyia incorrupta <small>Yang, Yang & Nagatomi, 1997</small>
- Symphoromyia inquisitor <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia johnsoni <small>Coquillett, 1894</small>
- Symphoromyia kincaidi <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia limata <small>Coquillett, 1894</small>
- Symphoromyia liupanshana <small>Yang, Dong & Zhang, 2016</small>
- Symphoromyia marginata <small>Théobald, 1937</small>
- Symphoromyia melaena <small>(Meigen, 1820)</small>
- Symphoromyia montana <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia nana <small>Turner & Chillcott, 1973</small>
- Symphoromyia nigripilosa <small>Yang, Dong & Zhang, 2016</small>
- Symphoromyia pachyceras <small>Williston, 1886</small>
- Symphoromyia pallipilosa <small>Yang, Dong & Zhang, 2016</small>
- Symphoromyia pilosa <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia plagens <small>Williston, 1886</small>
- Symphoromyia pleuralis <small>Curran, 1930</small>
- Symphoromyia plumbea <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia pullata <small>Coquillett, 1894</small>
- Symphoromyia sackeni <small>Aldrich, 1915</small>
- Symphoromyia securifera <small>Coquillett, 1904</small>
- Symphoromyia sinensis <small>Yang & Yang, 1997</small>
- Symphoromyia spitzeri <small>Chvála, 1983</small>
- Symphoromyia subtrita <small>Cockerell, 1911</small>
- Symphoromyia succini <small>Paramonov, 1938</small>
- Symphoromyia tertiarica <small>Paramonov, 1938</small>
- Symphoromyia trivittata <small>Bigot, 1887</small>
- Symphoromyia trucis <small>Coquillett, 1894</small>
- Symphoromyia truncata <small>Turner, 1973</small>
- Symphoromyia varicornis <small>(Loew, 1872)</small>
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