Two species of the hoverfly genus Eumerus Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) new record for Pakistan Author Hassan, Muhammad Asghar Author Shehzad, Anjum Author Dyola, Urmila Author Qasim, Muhammad Author Fatima, Noor Author Maryam, Zershina text Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 2022 2022-11-01 62 1 10 http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.067 journal article 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.067 1807-0205 7617614 Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912 ( Figs. 4-6 , 7 ) Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912: 443 . Type locality: Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). Diagnosis: Eumerus vestitus can be easily characterized by the following characters: eyes holoptic in males ( Fig. 4D ), dichoptic in females ( Fig. 5D ), sparsely covered with short yellowish hairs;vertex with yellowish hairs,ocellar triangle dark brown( Fig.5E );face densely covered with white hairs; scutellum dark brown, hind margin with distinctly long yellowish hairs ( Fig. 5A );male with swollen hind basitarsus bearing long bristle-like black hairs dorsolaterally ( Fig.6F ); abdominal tergites II-IV with an oblique greyish stripe; sternite IV in male with U-shaped depression medially, with ventrally thick spatulated microtrichia ( Figs. 6 A-B). Figure 4. Eumerus vestitus Bezzi ,male.(A) Dorsal habitus,(B)Lateral habitus,(C)Ventral habitus,(D)Head,frontal view,(E)Head,lateral view,(F)Head,dorsal view. Material examined: Pakistan . Punjab province , Arid Agriculture University , Rawalpindi , 1♂ , 2♀ , 22.x.2016 ; 1♂ , 15.vii.2017 ; 1♂ , 14.x.2017 , leg. M.A. Hassan (NIM). Distribution: Pakistan ( Punjab : Rawalpindi), new country record, – Arabian Peninsula, Egypt (Ezbet El Nakhl), Greece (Santorini Island), Guinea-Bissau , India (New Delhi ), Saudi Arabia , Syria , UAE , Yemen ( Bezzi, 1912 ; Efflatoun, 1922 ; Curran, 1938 ; GrkoviĆ et al., 2015 ; Smith et al., 2017 ; El-Hawagry et al., 2017 ; Dawah et al., 2020 ; Anooj et al., 2020 ).