Macrometopia maculipennis

Macrometopia maculipennis is a species of hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. It was first found in Colombia, and was named after its patterned wings.

Description
This description is based on a female holotype. The head is metallic steel blue; the face is sparsely white pollinose except on the tubercle and along he oral margin; the gena is white; the frontal lunule is a dark brownish orange colour. The occiput is white, with some black pile on its dorsal sixth; its eye being long and black. Its antenna is black; basoflagellomere trapezoid, with a large basomedial sensory pit on the inner side.

Its thorax's mesonotum is largely shiny, with a pair of interrupted medial white pollinose vittae; the postalar callus is black; its scutellum is shiny, with dense medial tufts of black pile, with the rest of the disc being black pilose, with a dense ventral fringe of white pile; the pleuron is sparsely white pollinose; halter orange with brown head; calyter white with black margin and fringe; plumula black.

Its legs are bluish black except for orange femoral-tibial joints and apices of pro- and mesotibiae.

The wings are hyaline and microtrichose except for brown maculae and bare areas.

Its abdomen is shiny except sparsely pollinose on the 1st segment and sterna; dorsum black pilose; the venter is white pilose except black on the 5th sternum.

Distribution
Colombia, Peru