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Chrysidimyia

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Genus of flies

Chrysidimyia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Chrysidimyia
Hull, 1937
Species: C. chrysidimima
Binomial name
Chrysidimyia chrysidimima
Hull, 1937
Synonyms
Genus
  • Chysidimyia Hull, 1937
Species
  • Chrysidimyia chrysidiformis Hull, 1944
  • Chrysidimyia lazuli Hull, 1944
  • Microdon granulatus Curran, 1940

Chrysidimyia is a genus of hoverflies from Brazil, with only one known species, Chrysidimyia chrysidimima. The genus was described as a small metallic green fly with dense punctation that had an "astonishing resemblance" to chrysidid wasps.

References

  1. ^ Hull, Frank M. (1937). "A megamorphic and two curious mimetic flies" (PDF). Psyche. 44 (4): 116–121. doi:10.1155/1937/67124. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. ^ Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. Bibcode:2013ZooK..288....1R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
  3. Cheng, Xin-Yue; Thompson, F. Christian (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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3.
Taxon identifiers
Chrysidimyia


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