Syrphidae has 6,700 described species worldwide, distributed in 290 genera. Nausigaster Williston is a genus of flower flies endemic to the New World. Nausigaster meridionalis Townsend is currently known from Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. Here we report N. meridionalis from Colombia based on a female collected with a Malaise trap in a tropical dry forest in the Ecoreserva La Tribuna at an altitude of 481 m above sea level. This finding is the first record of a Nausigaster species from Colombia with accurate geographical data, contributing to the knowledge of the distribution of flower flies in the Neotropics and the Colombian Andean region.
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