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Alipumilio

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Alipumilio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Tribe: Merodontini
Genus: Alipumilio
Shannon, 1927
Type species
Alipumilio femoratus
Shannon, 1927

Alipumilio is a South American genus of 12 species of hoverfly.[1] Where known these flies breed in sap flowing from trees, examples having been reared from the sap of Araucaria.

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References

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  1. Rotheray, G. E., M. A. Marcos-García, E. G. Hancock and F. S. Gilbert. 2000. The systematic position of Alipumilio and Nausigaster based on early stages (Diptera, Syrphidae). Stud. Dipterol. 7(1): 133-144. http://ecology.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/pdf%20files/2000%20Rotheray%20et%20al_alipumilio%20&%20nausigaster.pdf
  2. Thompson, F. C.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Sedman, Y. S. "A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae". São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. Retrieved 25 February 2011.