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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae » Microdon » subgenus Microdon (Microdon subgenus Microdon) » Microdon scauros

Species Microdon scauros

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae » Microdon

Biology of Microdon fuscipennis (Diptera: Syrphidae) with interpretations of the reproductive strategies of Microdon species...

By Duffield R.M.
Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 83: 716-724, 1981

Full title: Biology of Microdon fuscipennis (Diptera: Syrphidae) with interpretations of the reproductive strategies of Microdon found north of Mexico
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Contributed by v belov on 20 January, 2013 - 8:34pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae » Microdon

Revisionary notes on nearctic Microdon flies (Diptera: Syrphidae)

By Thompson F.C.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 83: 725-758, 1981

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Contributed by v belov on 20 January, 2013 - 7:00pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae

Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)

By Reemer M., Ståhls G.
ZooKeys 288: 1–213, 2013

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major overhaul of the classification, with 10 new genera described and 267 new combinations; Microdon lost ~60% of its members to other genera

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Contributed by v belov on 19 April, 2013 - 12:11pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae

A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China

By Cheng X.-Y., Thompson F.C.
Zootaxa 1879: 21–48, 2008

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Contributed by v belov on 20 January, 2013 - 6:22pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae)

A classification of the larvae and puparia of the Syrphidae of Illinois exclusive of aquatic forms

By Heiss E.M.
Univ. Ill. Bull. 36: 1‒142, 1938

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Contributed by v belov on 19 January, 2024 - 6:25pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae)

Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic ranking of pipizine flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with implications for the evol...

By Ximo Mengual, Gunilla Ståhls, & Santos Rojo
Cladistics, 2015

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Contributed by Zachary Dankowicz on 15 January, 2022 - 4:43pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae)

A multigene phylogeny of the eristaline flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae), with emphasis on the subtribe Criorhinina

By Kevin Moran et al.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021

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Contributed by Zachary Dankowicz on 15 January, 2022 - 4:41pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae)

Syrphidae of Southern Illinois: Diversity, floral associations, and preliminary assessment of their efficacy as pollinators.

By Jacob L. Chisausky et al.
Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e57331, 2020

Just out, 29 Oct. 2020 -
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 30 October, 2020 - 10:05pm

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