Nothomicrodon aztecarum is a species of Neotropical flies, originally described from a larva collected in 1924 from a carton nest of the ant Azteca trigona. It is the only species in the genus Nothomicrodon, but shows none of the features of a hoverfly larva, the family in which it was originally classified,[1] and instead belongs in the family Phoridae.[2]
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| Genus: | Nothomicrodon Wheeler, 1924
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| Species: | N. aztecarum
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References
edit- ^ Xin-Yue Cheng & F. Christian Thompson (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1879: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3.
- ^ Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud, Benoit J. B. Jahyny, Gunilla Ståhls, Graham Rotheray, Jacques H. C. Delabie & Jean-Paul Lachaud (2017) Rediscovery and reclassification of the dipteran taxon Nothomicrodon Wheeler, an exclusive endoparasitoid of gyne ant larvae. Scientific Reports 7: 45530 doi:10.1038/srep45530