Peradon aurigaster

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Peradon aurigaster
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