Furcantenna

Furcantenna yangi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Furcantenna
Cheng, 2008 [1]
Species: F. yangi
Binomial name
Furcantenna yangi
Cheng, 2008[1]

Furcantenna yangi is a species of hoverfly from Guangxi, China. It is the only species in the genus Furcantenna, and is only known from males.[1] Furcantenna is similar to the genus Schizoceratomyia. The two genera differ from each other in the shape of the scutellum; in Furcantenna a deep medial sulcus in its posterior margin divides the scutellum into two lobes.

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.


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