<documentid="9A794C2BEC9A30E830C069FBE6697CE3"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.3"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13747129"ID-ZooBank="03FF7FE1-4CA6-41D3-B2AE-0B3BFB0D81DE"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1726054359774"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Parada-Marin, Henry Mauricio, Mengual, Ximo & Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany"docDate="2024"docId="03C487BAFB4CCD20FF5DFE11B50C3C60"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5506.3.3.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5506 (3)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.3"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Alipumilio aureus Parada-Marin, Mengual & Ramos-Pastrana, 2024, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="355"masterDocId="FFFDFFC2FB4ECD25FFCAFFEEB7133A15"masterDocTitle="A new species of Alipumilio Shannon, 1927 (Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of the male of A. avispas Vockeroth, 1964 and A. femoratus Shannon, 1927"masterLastPageNumber="368"masterPageNumber="350"pageNumber="352"updateTime="1726055201202"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="B80E72F8F1CE979483EBD89FAAC8F908">A new species of Alipumilio Shannon, 1927 (Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of the male of A. avispas Vockeroth, 1964 and A. femoratus Shannon, 1927</mods:title>
<mods:namePartid="C8D41FF7D02689D25E0A2E85F4DF62B5">Parada-Marin, Henry Mauricio</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="CE017F6F2E47154424F3D5B1C8A7C5B6">Universidad de la Amazonia, Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia - GIEU-, Laboratorio de Entomología, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="ACD87CC573C2C0E38E31E106209D3A7A">Museum Koenig Bonn, Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels, Adenauerallee 127, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany & División de Entomología, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Ecuador</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="ED5A3179EF12F2FA505E3CAD508582EE">Universidad de la Amazonia, Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia - GIEU-, Laboratorio de Entomología, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4CCD27FF55FDCDB6103828"box="[159,259,547,573]"captionStart-0="FIGURE 1"captionStart-1="FIGURE 2"captionStart-2="FIGURE 3"captionStartId-0="2.[151,250,1856,1880]"captionStartId-1="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionStartId-2="4.[151,250,1793,1817]"captionTargetBox-0="[151,1435,811,1831]"captionTargetBox-1="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetBox-2="[168,1419,184,1765]"captionTargetId-0="figure-114@2.[151,1435,811,1831]"captionTargetId-1="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId-2="figure-19@4.[164,1423,181,1769]"captionTargetPageId-0="2"captionTargetPageId-1="3"captionTargetPageId-2="4"captionText-0="FIGURE 1. Geographical distribution of Alipumilio species. The red border on the record of A. femoratus refers to an approximation of the type locality, since the labels mention “Amazon”."captionText-1="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."captionText-2="FIGURE 3. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., holotype LEUA-0063889, male genitalia. A–B. Epandrium, A. Lateral view; B. Ventral view; C–D. Hypandrium, C. Lateral view; D. Ventral view. Scale = 0.2 mm."figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747133"figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"figureDoi-2="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747137"httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/13747133/files/figure.png"httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/13747137/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="352">Figs 1−3</figureCitation>
” “Captura con trampa Malaise en el // dosel de un bosque secundario” “
<taxonomicNameid="4C6D4D2FFB4CCD27FEE5FD39B6E538E4"authorityName="Parada-Marin & Mengual & Ramos-Pastrana"authorityYear="2024"box="[303,502,727,753]"class="Insecta"family="Syrphidae"genus="Alipumilio"kingdom="Animalia"order="Diptera"pageId="2"pageNumber="352"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="aureus">
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4CCD27FDC6F821B5753DFC"box="[524,614,1999,2025]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="352">Fig. 2A</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4CCD27FCDFF821B4633DFC"box="[789,880,1999,2025]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="352">Fig. 2A</figureCitation>
<taxonomicNameid="4C6D4D2FFB4ACD21FE2BF861B5A23DBC"authorityName="Parada-Marin & Mengual & Ramos-Pastrana"authorityYear="2024"box="[481,689,1935,1961]"class="Insecta"family="Syrphidae"genus="Alipumilio"kingdom="Animalia"order="Diptera"pageId="4"pageNumber="354"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="aureus"status="sp. nov.">
by having a scutum and a scutellum covered with thick golden yellow hairs and a wing membrane clearly divided into a basal hyaline half and an apical half strongly darkened.
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. Face bluish black, with golden hairs, concave without facial tubercle; parafacia bluish black, with yellow hairs. Gena bluish black, with golden hairs. Head holoptic; eyes with short and dense yellow hairs. Antennae light brown to orange; postpedicel twice as long as wide, a shade lighter in color than scape and pedicel; arista short, micropubescent (it looks bare at bare eye), yellow basally and darkening towards the apex. Frontal triangle bluish black, strongly punctate with dense, light brown to yellow hairs. Vertical triangle and vertex black, with golden hairs. Occiput narrow (
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FDB5FEA5B5EE3B70"box="[639,765,331,357]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Fig. 2A–C</figureCitation>
2 times wider than long, bluish black, punctate, with short, adpressed golden hairs. Scutellum bluish black with short, adpressed golden hairs. Pleuron bluish black; anepisternum, anepimeron and katepisternum with golden hairs. Katepimeron bare. Calypters yellowish-white, with a brownish yellow edge. Halter white. Plumula black with apical 1/4 golden brown (
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FB91FE59B3CE3BC4"box="[1115,1245,439,465]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Figs 2A, C</figureCitation>
Fore and mid coxae black, yellow haired; hind coxa thickened, with long yellowish white hairs anterodorsally. Trochanters black, with reddish black apex, sparsely hairy, except hind trochanter densely yellow haired. Fore and mid femora black, except for the reddish black apex; hind femur extremely swollen, black in color, except for the reddish black apex, with ventral spines and yellow hairs, except golden hairs anteroventrally. Fore and mid tibiae black, except basally and apically reddish black, yellow haired; hind tibia black in the central half, reddish black in the basal and apical 1/4, yellow haired. Fore and mid tarsi brownish yellow; hind tarsus ventrally reddish and dorsally black; all tarsi yellow haired (
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FEBDFD5DB50A38D8"box="[375,537,691,717]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Figs 2A–B, D</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FE1FFD39B53C38E4"box="[469,559,727,753]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Fig. 2E</figureCitation>
Compact, tergites short and broad, black, with adpressed golden hairs. Tergites 1 and 2 black, entirely covered with golden hairs. Tergite 3 black, with golden hairs, except on the posterior margin (
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FEACFCF1B6F8392C"box="[358,491,799,825]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Figs 2A, C</figureCitation>
Cercus elongate, wider at base than at middle and apical part, apices subcircular. Surstylus divided into two lobules: dorsal lobule thick basally and narrow apically, with sickle-shaped apex, in ventral view; ventral lobule elongate trapezoidal, base and apex nearly circular, slightly curved submedially, medially protruding, with sparse, short hairs, in lateral view. Epandrium subtriangular in lateral view. Hypandrium large, basally broad, with two expansions 1/4 as long as the hypandrium, Superior lobe (apex of hypandrium) subrounded, in ventral view (
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FE72FC3DB52C39F8"box="[440,575,979,1005]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-21@3.[153,1434,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Alipumilio aureus sp. nov., male holotype LEUA-0063889. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Habitus, dorsal view; D. Hind femur, lateral view; E. Wing; F. Labels; G–H. Epandrium and hypandrium, G. Lateral view; H. Ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747135"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747135/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Figs. 2G–H</figureCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFFC4B5DFB4BCD20FB0FFBF5B29C3E20"author="Brown, R. W."box="[1221,1423,1050,1077]"pageId="5"pageNumber="355"refId="ref6944"refString="Brown, R. W. (1954) Composition of scientific words: A manual of methods and a lexicon of materials for the practice of logotechnics. Published by the author, Baltimore, Maryland, 99 pp."type="book"year="1954">Brown 1954: 112</bibRefCitation>
), and it refers to the striking golden hairs that covers much of the body of this new species, a characteristic that distinguishes it from all other
<figureCitationid="13562A29FB4BCD20FE7DFB45B6EA3ED0"box="[439,505,1195,1221]"captionStart="FIGURE 1"captionStartId="2.[151,250,1856,1880]"captionTargetBox="[151,1435,811,1831]"captionTargetId="figure-114@2.[151,1435,811,1831]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURE 1. Geographical distribution of Alipumilio species. The red border on the record of A. femoratus refers to an approximation of the type locality, since the labels mention “Amazon”."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13747133"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13747133/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="355">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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with thick (compared with the other abdominal hairs) golden hairs on abdominal tergites 2–4, while all other species have thinner black, white or even silver hairs. Our new species,
<taxonomicNameid="4C6D4D2FFB4BCD20FCF8FAB1B48E3F6D"authorityName="Parada-Marin & Mengual & Ramos-Pastrana"authorityYear="2024"box="[818,925,1375,1401]"class="Insecta"family="Syrphidae"genus="Alipumilio"kingdom="Animalia"order="Diptera"pageId="5"pageNumber="355"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="aureus"status="sp. nov.">
the wing membrane is slightly and entirely infuscate and not contrasting). Moreover, both species differ in male genitalia (shape of cercus, surstylus and hypandrium) as illustrated in