| Pseudomicrodon | |
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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: | Pseudomicrodon Hull, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudomicrodon beebei Curran, 1936 | |
Pseudomicrodon is a genus of hoverflies, with 14 known species. All are species with petiolate abdomens.
Biology
Larvae are found in ant nests.
Distribution
They are native to the New World tropics.
Species
Species in Pseudomicrodon include:
- 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
- Pseudomicrodon rheochryssus (Hull, 1944)
- Pseudomicrodon seabrai Papavero, 1962
- Pseudomicrodon smiti Reemer, 2013
The following are synonyms of other species:
- Pseudomicrodon beebei (Curran, 1936): synonym of Pseudomicrodon batesi (Shannon, 1927)
References
- Hull, Frank. M (1937). "New Species of Exotic Syrphid Flies" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Psyche. 44 (1–2). Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge Entomological Club: 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. 1879. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Pseudomicrodon | |