Flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of French Polynesia, with the description of two new species
Author
Ramage, Thibault
8DE31F66-13BF-4516-A205-60F2EA39E3DD
9 Quartier de la Glacière, 29900 Concarneau, France.
thibault.ramage@hotmail.fr
Author
Charlat, Sylvain
A9AE69C2-039D-47FD-9DD2-B34C4363CB71
Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, CNRS (UMR 5558), Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
sylvain.charlat@univ-lyon1.fr
Author
Mengual, Ximo
A509310D-B567-4830-B8A4-BCB139BB8768
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institut für Biodiversität der Tiere, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany.
x.mengual@leibniz-zfmk.de
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2018
2018-07-04
448
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journal article
10.5852/ejt.2018.448
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Syritta oceanica
Macquart, 1855
Fig. 5B, E
Syritta oceanica
Macquart, 1855: 112
(155)
(
holotype
:
♀
,
OUMNH
; type locality:
French Polynesia
,
Society Islands
,
Tahiti
; original
type
locality as “
De l’Oceanie, Otaïti et Nouvelle Zealande
”
).
Syritta occanica
Macquart, 1855: 112
(misspelling).
Differential diagnosis
See above under
S. aenigmatopatria
.
Material examined
FRENCH POLYNESIA
:
Society Islands
:
1 ♂
,
Bora Bora
,
12 Jun. 1925
,
L.E. Cheesman
leg. (
MNHN
);
1 ♂
,
Huahine
,
Pohue Rahi
,
16°46′51.2″ S
,
150°58′34.7″ W
,
470 m
a.s.l.,
4 Jul. 2007
,
S. Charlat
leg. (
SCL
: symbiocode_08023);
7 ♂♂
,
Huahine
,
Pointe Tiva
,
16°49′15.11″ S
,
150°59′0.61″ W
,
5 m
a.s.l.,
21 Sep. 2012
,
T. Ramage
leg. (
4 ♂♂
:
CTR
;
3 ♂♂
:
ZFMK
:
ZFMK-DIP-0019725
,
ZFMK-DIP-0019730
,
ZFMK-DIP-0019741
);
1 ♀
,
Huahine
,
16°49′17.31″ S
,
150°59′4.42″ W
,
5 m
a.s.l.,
22 Sep. 2012
,
T. Ramage
leg. (
CTR
);
1 ♂
,
Raiatea
,
Faaroa Bay
,
16°49′00.5″ S
,
151°23′58.5″ W
,
300 m
a.s.l.,
26 Jun. 2007
,
S. Charlat
leg. (
SCL
: symbiocode_05171);
1 ♀
,
Raiatea
,
Opoa
,
Aratao
,
11 Jul. 2013
,
F. Jacq
leg. (
ZFMK
:
ZFMK-DIP-00019724
);
1 ♂
,
Raiatea
,
Faaroa
, 2015,
F. Jacq
leg. (
CTR
).
–
Tuamotu Islands
:
1 ♀
,
Vahanga
,
old village
,
5 Jun. 2012
,
F. Jacq
leg. (
ZFMK
:
ZFMK-DIP-00026780
)
.
Geographical distribution
South-central and central parts of the Pacific: Austral Islands over the
Cook Islands
, Marquesas Islands and Society Islands to the Hawaiian Islands (
Lyneborg & Barkemeyer 2005
).
Status in
French Polynesia
Present; recorded from the
Marquesas Islands
, Society Islands, Austral Islands and Tuamotu Islands.
Flowers visited
Syritta oceanica
has been seen visiting the flowers of three plant species in three families:
Heliotropium foertherianum
Diane & Hilger (Boraginaceae)
,
Pemphis acidula
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (Lythraceae)
and
Citharexylum spinosum
L. (
Verbenaceae
).
Biology
See
Terry (1910)
, although for Hawaiian specimens.
Genetics
The GenBank accession numbers for this species are: 28S gene (
MF446469
, specimen ZFMK- DIP-0019730), 18S gene (
MF446424
, specimen ZFMK-DIP-0019730), protein-coding COI gene (
MF446519
, specimen ZFMK-DIP-0019730). The BOLD Process IDs for the DNA barcodes (5′–COI) for this species are: SYC5088-14 (=
KX054853
, specimen symbiocode_05171) and SYC7899-14 (=
KX054854
, specimen symbiocode_08023). The Barcode Index Number (BIN) for these specimens is BOLD:ACN4472 (https://doi.org/10.5883/BOLD:ACN4472).
References
Macquart 1855: 112
(description);
Bezzi 1928: 82
(cit.);
Aubertin & Cheesman 1929: 173
(records);
Hull 1937: 84
(catalogue, note); Thompson 1989: 16 (cit.);
Thompson & Vockeroth 1989: 457
(catalogue);
Lyneborg & Barkemeyer 2005: 168
(redescription, diagnosis, male genitalia, bionomics).
Remarks
We report here the first record of this species from the Tuamotu Islands.
Lyneborg & Barkemeyer (2005)
clarified the status of this species and the allopatric
Syritta luteinervis
de Meijere, 1908
, and they explained the error of the
New Zealand
record for
S. oceanica
.