Macrometopia maculipennis

Macrometopia maculipennis is a species of hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. It was first found in Colombia, and was named after its patterned wings.[1]

Macrometopia maculipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Subfamily:
Eristalinae
Tribe:
Xylotini
Genus:
Macrometopia
Species:
M. Maculipennis
Binomial name
Macrometopia maculipennis
Thompson, 1999

Description

This description is based on a female holotype. The head is metallic steel blue; the face is sparsely white pollinose except on the tubercle and along he oral margin; the gena is white; the frontal lunule is a dark brownish orange colour. The occiput is white, with some black pile on its dorsal sixth; its eye being long and black. Its antenna is black; basoflagellomere trapezoid, with a large basomedial sensory pit on the inner side.

Its thorax's mesonotum is largely shiny, with a pair of interrupted medial white pollinose vittae; the postalar callus is black; its scutellum is shiny, with dense medial tufts of black pile, with the rest of the disc being black pilose, with a dense ventral fringe of white pile; the pleuron is sparsely white pollinose; halter orange with brown head; calyter white with black margin and fringe; plumula black.

Its legs are bluish black except for orange femoral-tibial joints and apices of pro- and mesotibiae.

The wings are hyaline and microtrichose except for brown maculae and bare areas.

Its abdomen is shiny except sparsely pollinose on the 1st segment and sterna; dorsum black pilose; the venter is white pilose except black on the 5th sternum.[1]

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References
  1. Thompson, F. Christian (1999). "A key to the genera of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Neotropical Region including descriptions of new genera and species and a glossary of taxonomic terms used" (PDF). Contributions on Entomology International. 3 (3): 321–378. ISSN 1084-0745. Retrieved 18 December 2018.


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