Nothomicrodon
| Nothomicrodon aztecarum | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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]
References
- ↑ Xin-Yue Cheng & F. Christian Thompson (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF). Zootaxa 1879: 21–48.
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