Published March 14, 2022
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Microdon analis
- 1. Landesmuseum für Kärnten, Sammlungs- und Wissenschaftszentrum, Liberogasse 6, A- 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria.
- 2. Klingelackerweg 10, 76571 Gaggenau, Germany. doczkal @ snsb. de
- 3. Ökoteam-Institute for Animal Ecology & Landscape Planning, Bergmanngasse 22, A- 8010 Graz, Austria. holzinger @ oekoteam. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0326 - 8518
Description
Microdon analis (Macquart, 1842) / M. major Andries, 1912
Microdon major was regarded as a synonym of M. analis (= M. eggeri Mik), until Schmid (2004) demonstrated its status as a valid species. The diagnostic morphological characters refer only to the puparia. The sparse data indicate that these taxa are associated with different ant hosts (Witek et al. 2011). Apart from the size (M. major is on average slightly larger than M. analis) adults are indistinguishable morphologically. The records from Austria examined by us were exclusively based on adults. While it can be assumed that both species are involved, further investigations based on puparia and/or DNA data are needed to corroborate their presence in Austria.
Notes
Published as part of Heimburg, Helge, Doczkal, Dieter & Holzinger, Werner E., 2022, A checklist of the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Austria, pp. 151-209 in Zootaxa 5115 (2) on page 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6352373
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Microdon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Macquart
- Species
- analis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microdon analis (Macquart, 1842) sec. Heimburg, Doczkal & Holzinger, 2022
References
- Schmid, U. (2004) Microdon rhenanus and Microdon eggeri var. major (Diptera, Syrphidae) revisited. Volucella, 7, 111 - 124.
- Witek, M., Patricelli, D., Casacci, L. P., Barbero, F., Balletto, E. & Bonelli, S. (2011) Notes on the biology and host ant specifity of the myrmecophilous syrphid fly Microdon major (Diptera Syrphidae), a social parasite of formica ants (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Sociobiology, 57 (2), 1 - 9.