Ornidia

Ornidia

Ornidia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Eristalinae
Tribe:	Volucellini
Genus:	Ornidia Lepeletier & Serville, 1828

Ornidia is a small genus of small (2.3–4.2 mm) metallic hoverflies.

All are endemic to the New World. But Ornidia obesa, which is widespread in the Americas and has spread into the Pacific and across the Orient to the east coast of Africa aided by human activity.^[1]

Species

Ornidia aemula Williston, 1888^[1]
Ornidia major Curran, 1930^[1]
Ornidia obesa (Fabricius, 1775)^[1]
Ornidia therezinhae Carvalho Filho & Esposito, 2009^[1]
Ornidia whiteheadi Thompson, 1991^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Carvalho Filho, Fernando da Silva; Esposito, Maria Crsitin (2009). "A review of the flower fly genus Ornidia Lepeletier & Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new species from Brazil" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Zootaxa (New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 2014: 59–64. ISSN 1175-5334.