Stegana Meigen, 1830
(hunchback flies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Stegana coleoptrata Beetle Hunchback Fly					Species		4 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Stegana (hunchback flies)
Family	DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies)
Superfamily	EPHYDROIDEA (fruit and shore flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Stegana is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	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:

DROSOPHILIDAE
(fruit or vinegar flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Stegana (hunchback flies)

BioInfo (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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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Stegana is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)