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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Omegasyrphus Giglio-Tos, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| Microdon coarctatus Loew, 1864
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Species
edit- Omegasyrphus baliopterus (Loew, 1872)
- Omegasyrphus coarctatus (Loew, 1864)
- Omegasyrphus gracilis (Bigot, 1883)
- Omegasyrphus painteri (Hull, 1922)
- Omegasyrphus pallipennis (Curran, 1925)
References
edit- ^ a b 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.1879.1.3.21-48&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info:doi/10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3&rft.au=Xin-Yue Cheng & F. Christian Thompson&rft_id=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01879p048.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Omegasyrphus" class="Z3988">
- ^ Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.1-213&rft.date=2013&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690914#id-name=PMC&rft_id=info:pmid/23798897&rft_id=info:doi/10.3897/zookeys.288.4095&rft.aulast=Reemer&rft.aufirst=Menno&rft.au=Ståhls, Gunilla&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690914&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Omegasyrphus" class="Z3988">
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