Ocyptamus cubanus

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Ocyptamus cubanus
Nuntianus cubanus Dankowicz.jpg
Nuntianus cubanus (=Ocyptamus cubanus), Florida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Tribe: Syrphini
Genus: Ocyptamus
Species:
O. cubanus
Binomial name
Ocyptamus cubanus
(Hull, 1943)
Synonyms [1]
  • Baccha calypso Hull, 1944
  • Baccha cubanus Hull, 1943

Ocyptamus cubanus is a species of syrphid fly in the family Syrphidae. [1] [2] [3]

It was proposed in 2020 that this species be moved to a new genus, Nuntianus, and it is now sometimes referred to as Nuntianus cubanus. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Ocyptamus cubanus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Ocyptamus cubanus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Miranda, Gil Felipe Gonçalves; Skevington, Jeffrey H; Marshall, Stephen A. (2020). "New generic concepts for orphaned lineages formerly treated as part of the genus Ocyptamus Macquart, 1834 (Diptera, Syrphidae)". Zootaxa. 4822 (2). doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.2.1 .