Omegasyrphus

Omegasyrphus is a genus of hoverflies, with five known species. These are small Microdontinae flies with a distinctive abdominal shape; the second segment is widened, flattened, and flared, with its lateral margin subcircular, thickened, and rounded, and the rest of abdomen (third–fifth segments) narrowed and cylindrical.[1] Larvae are found in ant nests. They are native to southern North America.[1] The genus was previously treated as a subgenus of Microdon.[2]

Omegasyrphus
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Omegasyrphus

Type species
Microdon coarctatus
Loew, 1864

Species

  • O. baliopterus (Loew, 1872)
  • O. coarctatus (Loew, 1864)
  • O. gracilis (Bigot, 1883)
  • O. painteri (Hull, 1922)
  • O. pallipennis (Curran, 1925)

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