The flower fly genus Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae): illustrated revision with descriptions of new species
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Mengual, Ximo
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XANTHOGRAMMA PRUTHII
DEORAS, 1942
Deoras (1943)
described a new species of
Xanthogramma
from the
Delhi
area (
India
), named
X. pruthii
. This species was reared from eggs found amongst groups of
Myzus persicae
(Sulzer, 1776)
and adults have terga 2 to 4 each with two lateral curved yellow maculae. This species was mentioned again from New
Delhi
and adjoining areas by
Anand, Rai & Sharma (1967)
and
Anand (1986)
. They also reported another species of this genus, as
Xanthogramma
sp.
, feeding on
Lipaphis erysimi
(Kaltenbach, 1843)
and
Acyrthosiphon pisum
(Harris, 1776)
(
Hemiptera
,
Aphididae
). Deoras also related his new species to
C. citrinum
, at that time the only ‘
Xanthogramma
’ species described from
India
. Ghorpadé (unpubl. data) examined the
type
material at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (
IARI
, New
Delhi
) and found it to be
Scaeva latimaculata
(
Brunetti, 1923
)
.
Similarly, other such mistaken identities were published for ‘
Xanthogramma
sp.
’ by
Rao (1969)
,
Gokulpure (1972)
,
Habib (1973)
,
Rai (1976)
,
Das & Raychaudhuri (1983)
,
Agarwala, Dutta & Raychaudhuri (1983)
,
Agarwala, Láska & Raychaudhuri (1984)
,
Anand (1986)
, and
Aslamkhan, Safdar & Azizullah (1997)
from central and northern
India
, and
Pakistan
, which are probably misidentifications for either
S. latimaculata
or
Allograpta javana
(Wiedemann, 1824)
(K. Ghorpadé pers. comm.).