Archimicrodon

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title: "Archimicrodon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hoverfly-genera", "microdontinae", "brachycera-tribes"] description: "Genus of flies" topic_path: "general/hoverfly-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimicrodon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flies ::

| taxon = Archimicrodon | authority = Hull, 1945 | type_species = Microdon (Archimicrodon) digitator | type_species_authority = Hull, 1937

Archimicrodon is a genus of hoverflies. Many of the species in this genus were moved from Microdon by Reemer & Ståhls (2013). Previously, it had been described as having three known species.

Biology

Larvae are found in ant nests.

Distribution

All currently known species are found in the Old World tropics.

Species

The species are divided into two subgenera: Archimicrodon Hull, 1945 and Hovamicrodon Keiser, 1971.

Subgenus ''Archimicrodon''

• A. ampefyanus (Keiser, 1971)
• A. barringtonensis (Ferguson, 1926)
• A. boharti (Curran, 1947)
• A. brachycerus (Knab & Malloch, 1912)
• A. brevicornis (Loew, 1858)
• A. browni (Thompson, 1968)
• A. caeruleomaculatus (Keiser, 1971)
• A. caeruleus (Brunetti, 1908)
• A. clatratus (Keiser, 1971)
• A. clavicornis (Sack, 1926)
• A. fenestrellatus (Keiser, 1971)
• A. fergusoni (Goot, 1964) := A. modestus (Ferguson, 1926) := A. fergusoni (Thompson, 1968)
• A. grageti (Meijere, 1908)
• A. incisuralis (Walker, 1865)
• A. investigator (Hull, 1937)
• A. kavitahaius (Keiser, 1971)
• A. lanka (Keiser, 1958)
• A. liberiensis (Curran, 1929)
• A. limbinervis (Meijere, 1908)
• A. luctiferus (Walker, 1865)
• A. malagasicus (Keiser, 1971)
• A. malukensis Reemer, 2013
• A. minuticornis (Curran, 1931)
• A. nicholsoni (Ferguson, 1926)
• A. nigrocyaneus (Hull, 1964)
• A. novaeguineae (Meijere, 1908)
• A. obesus (Herve-Bazin, 1913)
• A. purpurescens (Shiraki, 1963)
• A. ranavalonae (Keiser, 1971)
• A. simplex (Shiraki, 1930)
• A. simplicicornis (Meijere, 1908) := A. digitator (Hull, 1937)
• A. sudanus (Curran, 1923)
• A. tabanoides (Hull, 1944)
• A. tenuifrons (Curran, 1929)
• A. testaceus (Walker, 1857)
• A. varicornis (Sack, 1926)
• A. venosus (Walker, 1865) := A. papuanus (Doesburg, 1959)
• A. vittatus (Macquart, 1850) := A. transiens (Walker, 1852) := A. pachypus (Bigot, 1884)
• A. wainwrighti (Curran, 1938)

Subgenus ''Hovamicrodon''

Main article: Hovamicrodon

References

References

1. (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". [[ZooKeys]].
2. Cheng, Xin-Yue. (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China". Magnolia Press.

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