Meropidia

Meropidia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Milesiini
Subtribe: Tropidiina
Genus: Meropidia
Hippa [fi] & Thompson, 1983
Type species
Meropidia neurostigma
Hippa, 1983

Meropidia is a South American genus of hoverflies in the subfamily Eristalinae.

Species

There are five accepted species:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Hippa, H.; Thompson, F. Christian (1983). "Meropidia, a new genus of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from South America" (PDF). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 35: 109–115. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Meropidia Hippa & Thompson, 1983". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  3. 1 2 Morales, Mírian N.; Ståhls, Gunilla; Hippa, Heikki (2013). "Two new species of Meropidia Hippa & Thompson, 1983 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the Andes Mountains". ZooKeys. 338: 55–65. doi:10.3897/zookeys.338.6093. PMC 11331625. Retrieved 13 August 2021.