Omegasyrphus
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Omegasyrphus is a genus of hoverflies, with five known species. These are small Microdontinae flies with a distinctive abdominal shape; the second segment is widened, flattened, and flared, with its lateral margin subcircular, thickened, and rounded, and the rest of abdomen (third–fifth segments) narrowed and cylindrical.[1] Larvae are found in ant nests. They are native to southern North America.[1] The genus was previously treated as a subgenus of Microdon.[2]
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Omegasyrphus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
Genus: | Omegasyrphus Giglio-Tos, 1891 |
Type species | |
Microdon coarctatus Loew, 1864 |
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