Peradon angustiventris

Peradon angustiventris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Flies
Suborder:	Aschiza
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Microdontinae
Genus:	Peradon
Species:	P. angustiventris
Binomial name
Peradon angustiventris (Macquart, 1855)

Diagnosis

Body length: male 12–15 mm, female 14–16 mm. A large species with elongate, not constricted abdomen. Tergites 2 and 3 are yellowish brown, while tergite 4 may be orange brown or dark brown. The wings are yellow anterobasally, the fascia of golden pile along the mesonotal transverse suture is complete (not interrupted medially), and the face is entirely yellow.

Distribution

Brail, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname

REFERENCES

• 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.

• Macquart, P.J.M. 1855. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5.e supplément. Roret, Paris pp. 5-136.

• Reemer, Menno; Skevington, Jeffrey H.; Kelso, Scott (2019). "Revision of the Neotropical hoverfly genus Peradon Reemer (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae). ZooKeys