Archimicrodon
| Archimicrodon | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Archimicrodon Hull, 1945 |
| Type species | |
| Microdon (Archimicrodon) digitator Hull, 1937 | |
Archimicrodon is a genus of hoverflies. Many of the species in this genus were moved from Microdon by Reemer & Ståhls (2013). Previously, it had been described as having three known species.
Biology
Distribution
All currently known species are found in the Old World tropics.[needs update]
Species
The species are divided into two subgenera: Archimicrodon Hull, 1945 and Hovamicrodon Keiser, 1971.
Subgenus Archimicrodon
- A. ampefyanus (Keiser, 1971)
- A. barringtonensis (Ferguson, 1926)
- A. boharti (Curran, 1947)
- A. brachycerus (Knab & Malloch, 1912)
- A. brevicornis (Loew, 1858)
- A. browni (Thompson, 1968)
- A. caeruleomaculatus (Keiser, 1971)
- A. caeruleus (Brunetti, 1908)
- A. clatratus (Keiser, 1971)
- A. clavicornis (Sack, 1926)
- A. fenestrellatus (Keiser, 1971)
- A. fergusoni (Goot, 1964)
- A. grageti (Meijere, 1908)
- A. incisuralis (Walker, 1865)
- A. investigator (Hull, 1937)
- A. kavitahaius (Keiser, 1971)
- A. lanka (Keiser, 1958)
- A. liberiensis (Curran, 1929)
- A. limbinervis (Meijere, 1908)
- A. luctiferus (Walker, 1865)
- A. malagasicus (Keiser, 1971)
- A. malukensis Reemer, 2013
- A. minuticornis (Curran, 1931)
- A. nicholsoni (Ferguson, 1926)
- A. nigrocyaneus (Hull, 1964)
- A. novaeguineae (Meijere, 1908)
- A. obesus (Herve-Bazin, 1913)
- A. purpurescens (Shiraki, 1963)
- A. ranavalonae (Keiser, 1971)
- A. simplex (Shiraki, 1930)
- A. simplicicornis (Meijere, 1908)
- = A. digitator (Hull, 1937)
- A. sudanus (Curran, 1923)
- A. tabanoides (Hull, 1944)
- A. tenuifrons (Curran, 1929)
- A. testaceus (Walker, 1857)
- A. varicornis (Sack, 1926)
- A. venosus (Walker, 1865)
- = A. papuanus (Doesburg, 1959)
- A. vittatus (Macquart, 1850)
- A. wainwrighti (Curran, 1938)
Subgenus Hovamicrodon
References
- 1 2 Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. Bibcode:2013ZooK..288....1R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
- ↑ Cheng, Xin-Yue; Thompson, F. Christian (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Zootaxa. 1879. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2009-09-11.