Pseudomicrodon

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Aschiza
Superfamilia: Syrphoidea

Familia:Syrphidae
Subfamilia: Microdontinae
Genus: Pseudomicrodon

Species:

Pseudomicrodon is a genus of hoverflies, with 14 known species.[2][3] All are species with petiolate abdomens.[4]

Biology

Larvae are found in ant nests.
Distribution

They are native to the New World tropics.[4]
Species

Species in Pseudomicrodon include:[2][3]

Pseudomicrodon auricinctus (Sack, 1931)
Pseudomicrodon batesi (Shannon, 1927)
Pseudomicrodon bellulus (Williston, 1891)
Pseudomicrodon biluminiferus (Hull, 1944)
Pseudomicrodon chrysostypus (Thompson, 2004)
Pseudomicrodon claripennis (Hine, 1914)
Pseudomicrodon conops (Curran, 1940)
Pseudomicrodon corona (Curran, 1940)
Pseudomicrodon nigrispinosus (Shannon, 1927)
Pseudomicrodon pilosops (Marinoni, 2004)
Pseudomicrodon polistoides Reemer, 2013[2]
Pseudomicrodon rheochryssus (Hull, 1944)
Pseudomicrodon seabrai Papavero, 1962
Pseudomicrodon smiti Reemer, 2013[2]

The following are synonyms of other species:

Pseudomicrodon beebei (Curran, 1936): synonym of Pseudomicrodon batesi (Shannon, 1927)[3]

References

Hull, Frank. M (1937). "New Species of Exotic Syrphid Flies" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Psyche. Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge Entomological Club. 44 (1–2): 12–32. doi:10.1155/1937/46960. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
Reemer, Menno (2014). "A review of Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Surinam, with a key to the Neotropical genera". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 157 (1): 27–57. doi:10.1163/22119434-00002035.
Cheng, Xin-Yue; Thompson, F. Christian (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Zootaxa. New Zealand: Magnolia Press. 1879: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2009-09-11.