Peradon aureoscutus

Peradon aureoscutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Flies
Suborder:	Aschiza
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Microdontinae
Genus:	Peradon
Species:	P. aureoscutus
Binomial name
Peradon aureoscutus Hull, 1943

Diagnosis

Body length: male 11 mm. The triangle of golden pile on the mesoscutum places this species in a group together with P. aureus, P. trilinea and P. trivittatus. From the latter two species, P. aureoscutus differs by the absence of golden pile along the anterior and lateral margins of the mesoscutum. The species differs from P. aureus by the triangle of golden pile on the mesoscutum being wider than long and restricted to the posterior half of the mesoscutum. In the male, the ratio vertex width:head width is approximately 1:4.3 (Fig. 19), and the lateral margins of tergite 2 are rather evenly diverging posteriad. Male genitalia as in Fig. 257. The female is unknown

Distribution

Brazil

REFERENCES

• 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.

• 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