Microdon ruficrus

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Microdon ruficrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Flies
Suborder: Aschiza
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Microdon
Species: M. ruficrus
Binomial name
Microdon ruficrus
Williston, 1887

synonyms =

  • Microdon basiccornis Curran, 1925
  • Microdon champlaini Curran, 1925

Diagnosis

Subgenus: Microdon

Description

Distribution

Canada: Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario. United States: Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee. Virginia

Biology

Host ant: Lasius alienus

REFERENCES

  • Bigot, J.M.F. 1884. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 22e partie, XXXII: Syrphidi (2e partie). espèces nouvelles, No 1er. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 3: 315-356.
  • Curran, C.H. 1925. Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico. Kans. Univ.Sci. Bull. (1924) 15: 7-216, 12 pls.
  • Curran, C.H. 1931. Additional records and descriptions of Syrphidae from the Malay Peninsula. J. Fed. Malay St. Mus. 16: 290-338.
  • Hull, F.M. 1943. Some flies of the genus Microdon in the British Museum (Natural History). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (????) 11: 702-720.
  • Jones, C.R. 1922. A contribution to our knowledge of the Syrphidae of Colorado. Bull. Agric. Exp. Stn. Colo. 269: 1-72, 8 pls.
  • Walton, W.R. 1912. New North American Diptera. Entomological News 23: 463-464.
  • Wheeler, W.M. Two extraordinary larval myrmecophiles from Panama. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. (1924).
  • Williston, S.W. 1887. Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. (1886) 31, xxx + 335 pp, 12 pls.