Updating the knowledge of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Chile: Illustrated catalog, extinction risk and biological notes
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Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M.
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Riera, Pamela
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Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura
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Guzmán, Vicente Valdés
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Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia
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Zootaxa
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2021-04-15
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Copestylum
(
Phalacromya) willinki
(Fluke, 1951)
Figs 140–141
Volucella willinki
Fluke, 1951b: 10
Type
locality and data.
“
Tucumán
: Siambon.
Argentina
” (T,
♂
,
IML
)
.
Material examined.
Atacama
:
1♀
, Cuesta Pajonales,
24.IX.1967
,
Leg. R. Charlin
(
MEUC
) (
Fig. 147
)
.
References.
Fluke, 1951b: 10
, figs 2, 24 & 54 (desc.);
Thompson
et al.
, 1976: 87
(cat.).
World distribution.
Argentina
and
Chile
.
Chilean distribution.
Only recorded from
Atacama region
.
Altitudinal range.
This species mainly inhabits inland valleys between
400–
700 m
.a.s.l.
Biology and notes.
Copestylum willinki
is here reported from
Chile
for the first time and associated with xeric conditions and semi-desertic shrublands. This species can be observed in the south of the
Atacama Province
in
Chile
(
Morrone 2014
). Other aspects of its biology and ecology remain unknown in
Chile
.
Conservation status.
DD; AOO =
2 km
2
and one locality (or subpopulation).