Stegana Meigen, 1830
(hunchback flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusStegana (hunchback flies)
FamilyDROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies)
SuperfamilyEPHYDROIDEA (fruit and shore flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Chandler, P.J. 1987 The British species of Stegana Meigen (Diptera: Drosophilidae) - deletion of S. furta (Linnaeus) and addition of four species of the coleoptrata (Scopoli) group Entomologist’s Record and journal of variation 99: 115-123.

Stegana (hunchback flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Stegana (hunchback flies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Stegana (hunchback flies)

A small genus of flies that are instantly recognisable by their dark down-curved wings, making the fly resemble a beetle at first glance.

They are associated with rotting wood and are probably more over-looked than rare.

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