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
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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
).