This species differs from Microdon flukei Curran in the general bluish purple color, as well as other particulars. Pile above antennae on vertex and occiput silvery, narrowly black below ocelli in the front. The antennae are wholly orange, whereas they are brown in flukei with a black third joint. Abdomen unicolorous purplish, with the basal red color of flukei.
Paramicrodon delicatulus Hull, 1937.
Hull, F.M. (1937) New species of exotic syrphid flies. Psyche 44: 12-32, pl. 2.
Species only known from Cuba.
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