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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae » Microdon » subgenus Omegasyrphus (Microdon subgenus Omegasyrphus) » Microdon pallipennis
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Syrphid Fly 9mm - Microdon pallipennis
Copyright © 2021 Eric P Shultz

Syrphid Fly 9mm - Microdon pallipennis
Tesuque, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
July 26, 2021
Size: 9mm
A new Microdon for BugGuide? Didn't recognize it among the guide's species or the genus-level photos, but most likely I'm way off the mark. Help, please!

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Contributed by Eric P Shultz on 27 July, 2021 - 7:44am
Last updated 8 December, 2021 - 4:41pm

Moved
Moved from subgenus Omegasyrphus.
… Martin Hauser, 29 October, 2021 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

Thanks
to all for helping ID and place this fly!
… Eric P Shultz, 27 July, 2021 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Microdon.
… Martin Hauser, 27 July, 2021 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

Or is it omegasyrphus? Exact match to the pics in the Field…
…Guide. That would be an awesome find!!
If that is the case then Bill, maybe you should send this to Jeff and Martin for a possible species ID
… BugIdentifier, 27 July, 2021 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

 
Omegasyrphus has been conside
Omegasyrphus has been considered a subgenus of Microdon and shown as such in Checklists but the Field Guide has given Omegasyrphus full genus status. It is still shown as a subgenus of Microdon on BugGuide, however. Leg colour is different from the Omegasyrphus in the Field Guide but it still likely to be Omegasyrphus. I have sent it to Jeff and Martin for advice on whether this is Omegasyrphus and whether they should be separated and given full genus status on BugGuide....
… Bill Dean, 27 July, 2021 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Omegasyrphus
Hi Bill. I agree that this is Omegasyrphus, likely O. pallipennis (wing with black maculae broadly connected anteriorly). Omegasyrphus is treated as a genus in the field guiding following Reemer and Stalhs (2013). Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae). Menno Reemer is the guru on all things Microdon and bases his taxonomy on phylogenetic reasoning.
… Jeff Skevington, 27 July, 2021 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Hover Flies.
… v belov, 27 July, 2021 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

It looks like a new Microdon
It looks like a new Microdon for BugGuide. The others have longer antennae.
… Bill Dean, 27 July, 2021 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

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