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Metadon (fly)

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Genus of flies

Metadon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Metadon
Reemer, 2013
Type species
Microdon wulpii
Mik, 1899

Metadon is a genus of hoverfly containing 43 species. Most of the species were originally described in the genus Microdon.

Species

References

  1. ^ Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
  2. Gilasian, Ebrahim; Reemer, Menno; Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad (2015). "The first southwest Asian record of the subfamily Microdontinae, and the description of a new species of Metadon Reemer from Iran (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Zootaxa. 4058 (1): 112–118. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.6. PMID 26701510.
Taxon identifiers
Metadon
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