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<paragraph id="AF34432C1B93CB03A58DE117DC71C62C" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Medium sized (10.3 mm), bluish species (Fig. 
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) with dark macula on medial part of wing (Fig. 
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); basoflagellomere narrow and elongated, 1.8 times as long as wide, rounded at the tip (Fig. 
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); arista long, two times as long as basoflagellomere; body pile whitish; posterior half of scutum with square shaped area of black pile medially; terga 2-4 covered with black pile medially, except whitish pilosity on conspicuous silver microtrichose fasciae (Fig. 
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).
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left wing, dorsal view. Scale bar: 2 mm.
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Head. Antennae black to dark brown; basoflagellomere narrow and elongated, 1.8 times as long as wide, and 2.5 times as long as pedicel, with rounded tip; large fossette dorsomedial and dorsolateral (Fig. 
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); arista dark and thickened at basal one third, covered with dense microtrichia; arista long, ca. two times as long as basoflagellomere (Fig. 
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); face and frons black covered with whitish pile; face covered with indistinct whitish gray microtrichia; frons with dense whitish microtrichia; lunule shiny black, bare; vertex isosceles, with long whitish pile and black pilosity on the ocellar triangle; ocellar triangle equilateral; eyes covered with long, dense, whitish pile (Fig. 
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); occiput with whitish pile, covered with a dense, silver microtrichia along eye margin; eye contiguity short, approximately five facets long; vertical triangle: eye contiguity: frons = 4.5: 1: 4.5.
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Thorax. Scutum and scutellum black with bluish luster, covered with dense, erect, white pile including wing basis; posterior half of scutum with square shaped area of black pile medially; scutum with indistinct microtrichose vittae; posterodorsal part of anterior anepisternum, posterior anepisternum (except anteroventral angle), anterior anepimeron, dorsomedial anepimeron, and posterodorsal and anteroventral parts of katepisternum with long, whitish pile and grayish microtrichia; wings entirely covered with microtrichia; wing veins dark brown; wing with distinct dark area in apical half (Fig. 
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); calypteres whitish; halteres yellowish, with darker capitulum; legs mostly black, except dark brown tarsi ventrally; pile on legs mostly whitish mixed with black ones on femora; metafemur moderately incrassate, ca. three times longer than wide; pile on postero- and anteroventral surface very long, and ca. two thirds of width of metafemur, approximately the same length as pile on dorsal surface.
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Abdomen. Tapering, 1.2 times longer than mesonotum; terga dark brown to black; terga 2-4 each with a pair of white microtrichose, wide, oblique fasciae (on tergum 2 triangular); pile on terga long, whitish laterally and at microtrichose fasciae, medially black (Fig. 
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); sterna dark brown, covered with long whitish pile.
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Male genitalia. Apical part of anterior surstyle lobe rhomboid shape, 1.5 times longer than wide, covered with dense, short pile (Fig. 
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: al); posterior surstyle lobe oval with basolateral protrusion (lateral hump) (Fig. 
<figureCitation id="CC0E49979538BAA5D8928C9F3E3F42A0" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. Male genitalia. A Merodon nigropunctum sp. nov., epandrium, lateral view B Merodon nigropunctum sp. nov., epandrium, ventral view C Merodon nigropunctum sp. nov., hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstyle lobe, bp-basolateral protrusion, l-lingula. Scale bar: 0.2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.909.46838.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/377391" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">30A, B</figureCitation>
: bp); hypandrium sickle-shaped, without lateral projections; lingula large (Fig. 
<figureCitation id="E94AA63B2AEE709BAF947D23BE5D79B5" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. Male genitalia. A Merodon nigropunctum sp. nov., epandrium, lateral view B Merodon nigropunctum sp. nov., epandrium, ventral view C Merodon nigropunctum sp. nov., hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstyle lobe, bp-basolateral protrusion, l-lingula. Scale bar: 0.2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.909.46838.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/377391" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">30C</figureCitation>
: l).
</paragraph>
<caption id="05D5A9139B9F3E92B39B1231CB94F18F" doi="10.3897/zookeys.909.46838.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/377391" pageId="0" pageNumber="79" start="Figure 30" startId="F30">
<paragraph id="A37C77EDC1AD5BF68CC07F40ABE8EBF7" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">
<emphasis id="E2A4E40408E609455E935D75E7E9D5C9" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Figure 30.</emphasis>
Male genitalia. 
<emphasis id="6ED86AB38C870ED5C698E9416F13AC1D" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">A</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1197E80DA5A7EF0A5E8FCEA4A8553C46" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Merodon nigropunctum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., epandrium, lateral view 
<emphasis id="74017F1889607E92D144C84518B39752" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">B</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="CEC7ADC3DFEFD2A8AA651B7B6E8FD9F9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Merodon nigropunctum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., epandrium, ventral view 
<emphasis id="D5C79E7213D5BB7E09F46DB960798796" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">C</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="E9FE55174410F875E513C2901B43AEF1" authorityName="Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic" authorityYear="2020" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Merodon nigropunctum" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigropunctum">
<emphasis id="A04FF71966F056382A42C83728BAA405" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Merodon nigropunctum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstyle lobe, bp-basolateral protrusion, l-lingula. Scale bar: 0.2 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="5361309C9A2AF931F5516DC421E75D0E" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">
<emphasis id="0D158F774B1B6B51E8D926CB5B4369B3" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F49041CF94D23C09C1365BDF4B8BDFAD" pageId="0" pageNumber="79" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="E02C003E77D3DD8519774D1E532DFB13" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F7C0718F4028528F090E2730041F8D52" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">
The word 
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<emphasis id="6BB32538AFC458F245DE3D9738B090D6" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">nigropunctum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is derived from the Latin words 
<emphasis id="41FBA1AF886A480828E8B49A391267B1" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">niger</emphasis>
(black, dark whitish) and 
<emphasis id="94FE4ADC092B4AB76F08E5AAA2641F6F" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">punctum</emphasis>
(dot/spot) referring to the dark macula on the wing as an important diagnostic character of this new species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5CB65EEEE244898009134D10128B8682" pageId="0" pageNumber="79" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="56E9C92BFE49077F420CF9FBF945525E" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D7F850608886865FF7448AF1D42EDE19" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">
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<emphasis id="958AB9242AC2D6F55D3273E4A05BBB96" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Merodon nigropunctum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. was recorded at only one locality in Uzbekistan (Fig. 
<figureCitation id="86D15FFAC15B7A3A5C4B63657759A1C5" captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Distribution map of Merodon serrulatus species group." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.909.46838.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/377368" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">7</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="234514D9035212D8A1672510F3DCD29C" pageId="0" pageNumber="79" type="ecology">
<paragraph id="8509B00711EE0FDF69E8839175989855" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="67E5C670C4E57F0B00186E16DAC151E4" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Preferred environment: no data. Flowers visited: no data. Flight period: May.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="63B27A6B3D2F39916D6B769BE995E93A" pageId="0" pageNumber="79" type="type material">
<paragraph id="06E7286CC2EA775378958D0FBB40D9C7" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="81AC6F16FFD7737D57F1B58D87AEB1FD" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">
Holotype. Uzbekistan • ♂; 
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, S of Fergana; 
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, 
<geoCoordinate id="7A94DDF09533FB0027E9C63844052ED9" degrees="71" direction="east" minutes="47" orientation="longitude" precision="15" seconds="39" value="71.79417">71°47'39&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
; 21 May 1980; Z. Padr leg.; NMPC 18248. Original label: &quot;HOLOTYPE of 
<emphasis id="A1E4839388E98DBFBDF1C9551465A15D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">Merodon</emphasis>
/ 
<emphasis id="47068BDD88993E4E0AEBB16ABFE2D116" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">nigropunctum</emphasis>
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, Likov / 
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sp.n. 2019&quot; [red label], &quot;C.ASIA, Uzbekistan / 
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, S of Fergana / 21.5.1980 leg.Z. 
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, 
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(See Supplementary file 4: Figure 
<figureCitation id="45E4440351A778B8B71E8B85EAE1F718" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Merodon serrulatus, lateral view. A, C metatrochanter, metafemur and metatibia B, D-F metaleg. A-B male (Spain) C female (Spain) D male (France) E male (Greece) F male (Russia). Scale bar: 2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.909.46838.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/377365" pageId="0" pageNumber="79">4A</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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