| Hovamicrodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Archimicrodon |
| Subgenus: | Hovamicrodon Keiser, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| Hovamicrodon silvester Keiser, 1971 | |
Hovamicrodon is a subgenus of the hoverfly genus Archimicrodon, endemic to Madagascar. Hovamicrodon is distinguished by a particular type of scutellar calcar, being broad and blunt apically.
Species
The six known species are:
- A. flavifacies (Keiser, 1971)
- A. fuscipennis (Keiser, 1971)
- A. hova (Herve-Bazin, 1913)
- A. nubecula (Keiser, 1971)
- A. silvester (Keiser, 1971)
- A. vulpicolor (Hull, 1941)
References
- ^ 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.
- Xin-Yue Cheng & F. Christian Thompson (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1879: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3.
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| Hovamicrodon | |
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