Alipumilio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Subfamily:
Eristalinae
Tribe:
Eumerini
Genus:
Alipumilio

Shannon, 1927
Type species
Alipumilio femoratus
Shannon, 1927

Alipumilio is a South American genus of 12 species of hoverfly.[1] Where known these flies breed in sap flowing from trees, examples having been reared from the sap of Araucaria.

Species

  • A. athesphatus Thompson, 2009
  • A. avispas Vockeroth, 1964
  • A. femoratus Shannon, 1927
  • A. nigrocoeruleus Vockeroth, 1964
  • A. pullatus Vockeroth, 1964

[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rotheray, G. E., M. A. Marcos-García, E. G. Hancock and F. S. Gilbert. 2000. The systematic position of Alipumilio and Nausigaster based on early stages (Diptera, Syrphidae). Stud. Dipterol. 7(1): 133-144. http://ecology.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/pdf%20files/2000%20Rotheray%20et%20al_alipumilio%20&%20nausigaster.pdf
  2. ↑ Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Sedman, Y. S. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. Retrieved 25 February 2011.


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