Allograpta alamacula

Mengual, Ximo, Ruiz, Carlos, Rojo, Santos, Ståhls, Gunilla & Thompson, Christian, 2009, A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new subgenus and species, Zootaxa 2214, pp. 1-28 : 15

Allograpta alamacula species group

Diagnosis. Face straight, with large tubercle; oral opening about 2 times as long as wide, with oral apex at level of antennal base; antennal pits confluent; plumula absent; subscutellar pile fringe absent; wing broadly bare basomedially, with apical dark macula ; alula broad, as broad as cell BM; metasternum bare; abdomen elongate.

Included species. AUSTRALIAN: ** alamacula Carver 2003: 37 (Allograpta) Australia (Queensland).

Carver (Carver & Thompson 2003) reared her species from maggots preying on whiteflies ( Aleurocanthus t-signatus ( Aleyrodidae )). Also see Carver and Thompson (2003: 38, figs. 1 and 2) for black and white habitus and male genitalia.