Nothomicrodon Wheeler, 1924

Reemer, Menno & Stahls, Gunilla, 2013, Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae), ZooKeys 288, pp. 1-213 : 74

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.288.4095

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scientific name

Nothomicrodon Wheeler, 1924
status

 

Nothomicrodon Wheeler, 1924 View in CoL

Discussion.

Whether this taxon belongs to Microdontinae or Syrphidae at all is uncertain. It was described from larvae found in an ants nest ( Wheeler 1924). Cheng and Thompson (2008) suspect it belongs to another family, perhaps Phoridae . Photographs of a larva can be found at http://syrphidae.lifedesks.org/pages/25523.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

SubFamily

Microdontinae