Ornidia

Ornidia is a small genus of small (2.3–4.2 mm) metallic hoverflies.

Ornidia
Ornidia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Volucellini
Genus: Ornidia
Lepeletier & Serville, 1828[1]
Type species
Syrphus obesus

All are endemic to the New World. With Ornidia obesa, which is widespread in the Americas, having spread into the Pacific and across the Orient and to the east coast of Africa aided by human activity.[3]

Species

References

  1. Le Peletier, Amédée Louis Michel, de Saint Fargeau; Serville, ean Guillaume Audinet (1828). In: Latreille, P. A., A. L. M. Lepeletier, J. G. A. Serville, & F. E. Guérin-Méneville. Entomologie, Ou Histoire Naturelle Des Crustacés, Des Arachnides Et Des Insectes. In: Encyclopédie methodique, Histoire naturelle. Vol. tome dixième. Paris: Agasse. Retrieved 10 July 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Fabricius, J.C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig]: Kortii. pp. [32] + 832. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  3. Carvalho Filho, Fernando da Silva; Esposito, Maria Crsitin (2009). "A review of the flower fly genus Ornidia Lepeletier & Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new species from Brazil". Zootaxa. New Zealand: Magnolia Press. 2014: 59–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2014.1.6. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 15: 243–292. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  5. Curran, C.H. (1930). "New species of Volucellinae from America (Syrphidae, Diptera)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (413): 1–23. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  6. Thompson, F. Christian (1991). "The Flower Fly genus Ornidia (Diptera:Syrphidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 93 (2): 248–261. Retrieved 9 August 2021.


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