Alipumilio

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[2]

  • Alipumilio athesphatus Thompson, 2009[3]
  • Alipumilio avispas Vockeroth, 1964
  • Alipumilio femoratus Shannon, 1927
  • Alipumilio nigrocoeruleus Vockeroth, 1964
  • Alipumilio pullatus Vockeroth, 1964

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.
  3. ↑ Morales, Mírian Nunes; Massardo, Darli; Moreira, Gilson R. P.; Thompson, Christian (2009). "A new species of Alipumilio Shannon (Diptera, Syrphidae) found in association with the exudate resin of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2112: 53–64.


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