Macrometopia maculipennis
| Macrometopia maculipennis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Suborder: | Brachycera |
| Infraorder: | Muscomorpha |
| Section: | Aschiza |
| Superfamily: | Syrphoidea |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Eristalinae |
| Tribe: | Xylotina |
| Genus: | Macrometopia |
| Species: | Macrometopia maculipennis Thompson, 1999 |
Macrometopia maculipennis is a species of Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. It was first found in Colombia, and was named after its patterned wings.[1]
Description
This description is based on a femaly 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; 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]