Carreramyia tigrina

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Carreramyia tigrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Flies
Suborder: Aschiza
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Carreramyia
Species: C. tigrina
Binomial name
Carreramyia tigrina
Reemer, 2013

Diagnosis

Distinguished from C. megacephalus and C. megacera by the striped pattern of the abdomen. From C. flava it differs by the mostly black scutum, the laterally black scutellum, the hind leg with its tibia wider than its femur, the absence of an arista in the female and the shape of the female basoflagellomere.

Description

Distribution

Peru

Biology

The holotype was collected in a malaise trap at the edge of primary rainforest (varzea forest) in the Amazonian part of Peru.

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