Pseudomicrodon beebei Curran, 1936:4

Adapted from original description (Curran 1936).

FEMALE.

Black, with yellow markings; abdomen elongate and clavate; legs reddish.

Head rather badly damaged; front black with strong metallic green reflections and with appressed golden pile on at least the lower half. Occiput black, thinly pale pollinose, the pile apparently yellowish. Gena black, with yellow pile posteriorly. Face yellowish, moderately convex in profile, with appressed golden-yellow pile, the middle with some short black pile. Antennae with scape more than half as long as the face, black with almost the basal half reddish. Eyes bare.

Thorax black with metallic blue reflections, the postpronotum yellowish. Scutum with the sides, a broad prescutellar fascia and a geminate fascia extending across in front of the suture, its anterior fascia produced broadly forward in the middle, golden pilose, the remaining pile short and black. Scutellum metallic blue, its pile golden and appressed. Pleura with a broad band of golden-yellow pile extending downward in front of the wings and becoming whitish on the katepisternum. Legs reddish; coxae black or brown; tibiae yellow on basal half or more; pile yellowish, appressed; posterior femora with short black spines on the apical half of the ventral surface. Wings cinereous hyaline, the longitudinal veins on the apical half of the middle of the wing bordered with yellowish brown. Calypter white, with yellow border. Halteres reddish.

Abdomen brown with yellow markings, the first segment mostly metallic bluish above. Second segment long and narrow, as long as the third and fourth combined, narrowest near its apex, the apical three segments forming an oval club. Second segment with a pair of broad yellowish vittae extending the whole length, the third yellow with a median brown vitta on the basal three-fourths. Pile short and black; golden yellow on the first segment and broad apices of the second to fourth, on the anterior angles of the third and the whole of the fifth segment. Venter brown, the second and third sterna mostly yellow.

Microdon (Pseudomicrodon) beebei Curran, 1936.

Curran, C.H. (1936) New Neotropical Syrphidae (Diptera). American Museum Novitates 882, 17 pp.

Body length: 18 mm.