Black-tie dress code: two new species of the genus Toxomerus (Diptera, Syrphidae)
Author
Mengual, Ximo
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ZooKeys
2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.140.1930
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.140.1930
1313-2970-140-1
Toxomerus anthrax (Schiner)
Figures 1529
Mesogramma anthrax
Schiner 1868
: 350. Type Locality: South America [ST 3♂, 3♀, NMW].
Mesogramma vitrescens
Hull 1930
: 142. Type locality: Colombia, Magdalena, Aracataca [HT ♂, ANSP].
Mesogramma anthrax
var. flammaria
Hull 1943
: 27. Type locality: Honduras, Puerto Castilla [HT ♂, unknown].
Differential diagnosis.
Male and female with medial black facial vitta, but in males does not continue laterad or dorsad antennal bases. Scutum black laterally except pos
tpronotum
yellow and notopleuron sometimes with a small yellow vitta sublaterally, not on the most lateral margin. Wing extensivey microtrichose with small bare area on both sides of vein M on the basal portion of cell bm, and costal cell bare very basally or along vein SC (posterior margin). Abdomen black, terga 3-5 sometimes dark brown to yellowish-orange, with or without yellow lateral margins; shiny, without pollinose markings.
Toxomerus anthrax
is similar to
Toxomerus circumcinctus
but the last has the notopleuron entirely yellow and postalar callus yellowish and the scutellum black with a well-defined broad yellow margin. Male genitalia are different.
Length
(5): body, 6.0-7.2 (6.6) mm; wing, 4.8-5.5 (5.2) mm.
Distribution.
Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana*, Peru*.
Material examined.
2♂ syntypes, 28♂ 17♀.
Figures 1-15. 1-8
Toxomerus dispar
: 1 Abdomen of pale male, dorsal 2 Abdomen of dark male, dorsal 3 Abdomen of very dark male, dorsal 4 Abdomen of dark female, dorsal 5 Abdomen of very dark male, dorsal 6 wing 7 Female genitalia: a dorsal, b ventral 8 Male genitalia, 9th tergum and associated structures: a dorsal b lateral 9
Toxomerus nitidus
, abdomen of female, dorsal 10
Toxomerus flaviplurus
, abdomen of female, dorsal 11
Toxomerus hieroglyphicus
, abdomen of male, dorsal 12
Toxomerus laenas
, abdomen of male, dorsal 13
Toxomerus
sp. 1, thorax, lateral 14
Toxomerus flaviplurus
, thorax, lateral 15
Toxomerus anthrax
, thorax, lateral (Figs 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 from
Thompson 1981
; Figs 9-15 from
Hull 1943
).
Figures 16-29. 16
Toxomerus picudus
, lateral 17
Toxomerus picudus
, dorsal 18
Toxomerus hauseri
, lateral 19
Toxomerus hauseri
, dorsal 20
Toxomerus hauseri
, head, frontal 21
Toxomerus picudus
, head, frontal 22
Toxomerus hieroglyphicus
, head, lateral 23
Toxomerus picudus
, head, lateral 24
Toxomerus nitidus
, thorax, lateral 25
Toxomerus laenas
, thorax, lateral 26
Toxomerus paragrammus
, abdomen, dorsal 27
Toxomerus incaicus
, abdomen, dorsal 28
Toxomerus circumcinctus
, male genitalia, 9th tergum and associated structures: a dorsal b lateral 29
Toxomerus anthrax
, male genitalia, 9th tergum and associated structures: a dorsal b lateral.