Neotropical Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) breeding in Agavaceae and Cactaceae including seven new species
Author
Rotheray, Graham E.
Author
Marcos-García, Maria-Angeles
Author
Hancock, Geoff
Author
Pérez-Bañón, Celeste
Author
Maier, Chris T.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2009
2009-08-31
156
4
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00503.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00503.x
0024-4082
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COPESTYLUM SATUR
(OSTEN SACKEN, 1877)
Larva and puparium (
Fig. 20
):
Dorsal abdominal vestiture confined to medial areas on the transverse bands. Ventral abdominal vestiture of varying length with anterior ends of folds with longer setae than posterior ends. Posterior breathing tube yellowbrown, surface corrugated and shiny, about half width of puparium. TR barely discernable. AP bulging at apex, tapering slightly and 0.75¥ as long as a pupal spiracle. Spiracular openings at apex with simple s-shaped curves. Pupal spiracles long, about 3¥ as long as basal width, slightly outcurved, shiny red with openings in upper third and separated by 1.4¥ their length (
Fig. 49
).
Taxonomic notes:
Copestylum satur
is more similar to
C. fornax
(Townsend, 1895)
than to
C. fraudulentum
(Williston, 1891)
. It is distinguished from
C. fraudulentum
by the shallow TR and vestiture confined to medial areas of abdominal transverse folds and from
C. fornax
by the yellow-brown, slightly tapering posterior breathing tube and the longer pupal spiracles which are about 3¥ basal length and which are separated by less than 2¥ their length.
Material examined:
3 ♂
,
1 ♀
, four puparia,
two larvae
USA
Arizona
,
Yuma
25.ii.1940
HT Rainwater
ex decaying
Opuntia
(SI)
.
Previous records:
Mann (1969)
ex
Opuntia
.