Nothomicrodon

Nothomicrodon
Nothomicrodon aztecarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Nothomicrodon
Wheeler, 1924
Species: N. aztecarum
Binomial name
Nothomicrodon aztecarum
Wheeler, 1924

Nothomicrodon aztecarum is a Neotropical fly, known only 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, and the genus may instead belong in the Phoridae.[1]

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