Merodon Meigen 1803 (hover fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Full reference: J. W. Meigen. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde 2:259-281

Parent taxon: Merodontini according to K. M. Moran et al. 2022

See also Carpenter 1992, Hull 1945, Hull 1949 and Mengual et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Psilota, Palaeopipiza

Subtaxa: Merodon germari

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Krantz Bonn coll) (Oligocene of Germany)

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