New Records Of Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) From Ukraine. I. Milesiini And Rhingiini
Author
Prokhorov, A. V.
Author
Popov, G. V.
Author
Zaika, M. I.
text
Vestnik Zoologii
2018
2018-02-01
52
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13
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/vzoo-2018-0002
journal article
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10.2478/vzoo-2018-0002
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Cheilosia reniformis
Hellén, 1930
(
figs 12–14
)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d.
Ukraine
:
Zakarpattia Region
,
Kamianytsia
env.,
48.70 N
22.43 E
,
Uzh River valley
(left bank),
6.05.2017
,
1 ♀
(
A. Prokhorov
)
.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: “from
Norway
…;
Finland
; the western edge of European
Russia
and eastern Asiatic
Russia
(Yakutia) … also to an isolated, montane, Serbian population of what may be this species, pointing out that, while genetically this population is more similar to
C. reniformis
than to other elements of the
C. vernalis
complex, it might equally represent a distinct and as yet unnamed species” (Speight, 2016). In the Catalogue of Palaearctic
Syrphidae (
Peck, 1988
)
this species was recorded for
Russia
only from West Siberia, but
Mutin & Barkalov (1999)
provided the new data on the species range in the West Palaearctic: Siberia, south of
Khabarovsk Region
,
Amur Region
,
Sakha Republic
(Yakutia), and
Irkutsk Region
.
Ukraine
(
first record
). Such a record of this boreal species, relic in the nemoral part of Europe, is the second since the Serbian records (
Ståhls et al., 2008
).
Diagnosis.
Female:
Head (
fig. 14
). Face black, weakly dusted and mostly shining, with facial tubercle and lower facial margin well developed (
fig. 13
); frons shining with short pale pile (black hairs present only before anterior ocellus), vertex shining with black hairs; basoflagellomere reddish, almost circular, arista almost bare, uniformly dark; eyes with short and very sparse whitish pile, lower part of eyes bare (
fig. 14
). Scutum and scutellum black and shining, with fine punctuation and short pale pile (hairs almost erect in our specimen), black bristles on hind rim of scutellum absent, but short bristles present on postalar calli; anterior anepisternum dusted, posterior anepisternum weakly dusted only at upper and posterior part, the rest is shiny; upper and lower hair spots on katepisternum widely separated; halter knob yellowish. Wing hyaline with yellowish tint and yellowish stigma. Legs: femora black with black bristles on apical half of ventral sides, its small apical part pale, tibiae pale with black rings below middle (
fig. 13
); tarsomeres of all legs blackish on the upper side, only basitarsus of mid legs yellowish (as the apex of the tibia). Abdomen round, as long as wide, only with pale pile, hairs in the middle of tergites are very short. Body length
7 mm
.
It differs from
C. melanura
Becker, 1894
by tibiae mainly pale, hind tibia with black ring over less than half its length (in
C. melanura
tibiae mainly black, hind tibia with black ring over more than half its length), scutum and scutellum with only pale hairs (in
C. melanura
with many black hairs). From
C. chloris
(Meigen, 1822)
differs by arista uniformly dark (in
C. chloris
arista reddish in base), bristles on postalar calli present (in
C. chloris
bristles on postalar calli absent), body length
7–8 mm
(in
C. chloris
8–11 mm
). From
C. bracusi
Vujić & Claussen, 1994
C. reniformis
differs by hind tibia with most developed black ring and small body (in
C. bracusi
hind tibia with narrower black ring, body length
11– 13 mm
). Differences from
C. fraterna
in key by
Van
Veen (2010)
indistinct,
C. reniformis
with
extremely
short hairs on thorax (
C. fraterna
with short
erect
hairs), and size of the body smaller (in
C. fraterna
8–10 mm
). By Bartsh et al. (2009), thorax of
C. reniformis
covering with
extremely
short and slightly decumbent hairs. Specimens of
C. reniformis
with bristles on hind margin of scutellum differs from
C. vernalis
(Fallén, 1817)
(
figs 15–17
) by very short hairs (virtually hairs are absent) on lower part of eye (in
C. vernalis
hairs are uniformly length over the entirely surface of an eye,
fig. 17
) (Speight, 2016), and eyes with only white hairs (in
C. vernalis
upper part of eyes with dark hairs,
fig. 17
). As additional differences we can mention the following: in
C. reniformis
pale hairs on thorax are whitish (in
C. vernalis
they are yellowish,
fig. 16
), posterior anepisternum in
C. reniformis
distinctly dusted at upper and posterior part (in
C. vernalis
mostly shining).