| Nothomicrodon aztecarum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Nothomicrodon Wheeler, 1924 |
| Species: | N. aztecarum |
| Binomial name | |
| Nothomicrodon aztecarum Wheeler, 1924 |
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Nothomicrodon aztecarum is a Neotropical fly, known only from a larva collected in 1924 from a carton nest of the ant Azteca trigona. It is the only species in the genus Nothomicrodon, but shows none of the features of a hoverfly larva, and the genus may instead belong in the Phoridae.[1]