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Peradon aurigaster
| Peradon aurigaster | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Flies |
| Suborder: | Aschiza |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Peradon |
| Species: | P. aurigaster |
| Binomial name | |
| Peradon aurigaster Hull, 1941
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Diagnosis
Body length: male 7.5–9.5 mm, female 9.5–10 mm. The conspicuous golden pile on tergite 4 places this species in the flavofascium species group. Within this group, this species is distinguished by the combination of the following characters: basoflagellomere longer than scape, postpronotum bare, wing cell c bare on posterobasal 1/4 or less, alula largely bare, wing cell r4+5 partly yellow.
Description
Distribution
Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
Biology
REFERENCES
- Hull FM (1941) Descriptions of some new species of Syrphidae. Psyche 48: 149–165.
- Keiser, F. 1952. Syrphidae (Dipt.) von Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores und Timor. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Sumba-Expedition des Museums fur Volkerkunde und des Naturhistorischen Museums in Basel, 1949. Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 63: 153-175.
- Reemer, Menno; Skevington, Jeffrey H.; Kelso, Scott (2019). "Revision of the Neotropical hoverfly genus Peradon Reemer (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae). ZooKeys