Ocyptamus parvicornis

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Ocyptamus parvicornis
Victoriana parvicornis Santos.jpg
Scarlet hover fly, Florida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Ocyptamus
Species:
O. parvicornis
Binomial name
Ocyptamus parvicornis
(Loew, 1861)
Synonyms [1]
  • Baccha parvicornis Loew, 1861

Ocyptamus parvicornis, the scarlet hover fly, is a species in the family Syrphidae. [1] [2] [3]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "Ocyptamus parvicornis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Ocyptamus parvicornis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  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 .