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''Palpada suprarufa'' is a species of flower fly first found in Ecuador.〔Thompson, F. Christian. "A key to the genera of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Neotropical Region including descriptions of new genera and species and a glossary of taxonomic terms used." (1999).〕 It is named ''suprarufa'', based on the appearance of the species (Latin for “above red”). ==Description== Its face is brownish yellow; gena is brownish black; lunule is large, shiny and orange; its frontal triangle is brownish yellow. Its eye is densely brownish, while its antenna is orange. The thorax is mainly black; postpronotum orange; scutum black; scutellum is reddish orange; pleura black. Its calypter is brownish black and the plumula brownish orange. Its wings are hyaline and bare; tegula and basicosta are black. The coxae and trochanters are black; femora are black except the apices which are narrowly orange; protibiae are black, mesotibia brownish orange, metatibia flattened, broad and black. The tarsi are orange. The abdomen's dorsum is mainly reddish orange, black only on the 1st, narrowly basomedially and medially on the 2nd and with a black triangular basomedial macula on the 3rd tergum, which is reddish. The sterna are brownish black. The male genitalia are shiny black. The female is similar to the male except for normal sexual dimorphism and its front being orange, while its 5th tergum is black.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palpada suprarufa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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