Ornidia is a small genus of mid-sized metallic hoverflies.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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 edit
- Ornidia aemula (Williston, 1888)[4][3]
- Ornidia major Curran, 1930[3][5]
- Ornidia obesa (Fabricius, 1775)[2][3]
- Ornidia therezinhae Carvalho Filho & Esposito, 2009[3]
- Ornidia whiteheadi Thompson, 1991[3]
References edit
- ^ 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) - ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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. 2014. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 59–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2014.1.6. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Curran, C.H. (1930). "New species of Volucellinae from America (Syrphidae, Diptera)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (413): 1–23. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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