Azteca trigona

Azteca trigona

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae

Nothomicrodon aztecarum is a species of Neotropical flies, originally described from a larva collected in 1924 from a carton nest of the ant Azteca trigona. It is the only species in the genus Nothomicrodon, but shows none of the features of a hoverfly larva, the family in which it was originally classified, and instead belongs in the family Phoridae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

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Azteca trigona

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