Flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of French Polynesia, with the description of two new species Author Ramage, Thibault 8DE31F66-13BF-4516-A205-60F2EA39E3DD 9 Quartier de la Glacière, 29900 Concarneau, France. Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, CNRS (UMR 5558), Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institut für Biodiversität der Tiere, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. thibault.ramage@hotmail.fr Author Charlat, Sylvain A9AE69C2-039D-47FD-9DD2-B34C4363CB71 sylvain.charlat@univ-lyon1.fr Author Mengual, Ximo A509310D-B567-4830-B8A4-BCB139BB8768 x.mengual@leibniz-zfmk.de text European Journal of Taxonomy 2018 2018-07-04 448 1 37 journal article 22322 10.5852/ejt.2018.448 0ba05318-1eec-44bc-8017-b6e2789b4811 3814059 413AE92E-862A-4879-B72F-1C0DCF1F7240 Syritta oceanica Macquart, 1855 Fig. 5B, E Syritta oceanica Macquart, 1855: 112 (155) ( holotype : ♀ , OUMNH; type locality: French Polynesia , Society Islands, Tahiti; original type locality as “De l’Oceanie, Otaïti et Nouvelle Zealande”). Syritta occanica Macquart, 1855: 112 (misspelling). Differential diagnosis See above under S. aenigmatopatria . Material examined FRENCH POLYNESIA : Society Islands : 1 ♂, Bora Bora, 12 Jun. 1925 , L.E. Cheesman leg. ( MNHN ); 1 ♂, Huahine, Pohue Rahi, 16°46′51.2″ S , 150°58′34.7″ W , 470 m a.s.l., 4 Jul. 2007 , S. Charlat leg. ( SCL : symbiocode_08023); 7 ♂♂, Huahine, Pointe Tiva, 16°49′15.11″ S , 150°59′0.61″ W , 5 m a.s.l., 21 Sep. 2012 , T. Ramage leg. (4 ♂♂: CTR ; 3 ♂♂: ZFMK: ZFMK-DIP-0019725, ZFMK-DIP-0019730, ZFMK-DIP-0019741); 1 ♀ , Huahine, 16°49′17.31″ S , 150°59′4.42″ W , 5 m a.s.l., 22 Sep. 2012 , T. Ramage leg. ( CTR ); 1 ♂, Raiatea, Faaroa Bay, 16°49′00.5″ S , 151°23′58.5″ W , 300 m a.s.l., 26 Jun. 2007 , S. Charlat leg. ( SCL : symbiocode_05171); 1 ♀ , Raiatea, Opoa, Aratao, 11 Jul. 2013 , F. Jacq leg. ( ZFMK : ZFMK-DIP-00019724); 1 ♂, Raiatea, Faaroa, 2015, F. Jacq leg. ( CTR ). – Tuamotu Islands : 1 ♀ , Vahanga, old village, 5 Jun. 2012 , F. Jacq leg. ( ZFMK : ZFMK-DIP-00026780). Geographical distribution South-central and central parts of the Pacific: Austral Islands over the Cook Islands , Marquesas Islands and Society Islands to the Hawaiian Islands ( Lyneborg & Barkemeyer 2005 ). Status in French Polynesia Present; recorded from the Marquesas Islands , Society Islands, Austral Islands and Tuamotu Islands. Flowers visited Syritta oceanica has been seen visiting the flowers of three plant species in three families: Heliotropium foertherianum Diane & Hilger (Boraginaceae) , Pemphis acidula J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (Lythraceae) and Citharexylum spinosum L. ( Verbenaceae ). Biology See Terry (1910) , although for Hawaiian specimens. Genetics The GenBank accession numbers for this species are: 28S gene ( MF446469 , specimen ZFMK- DIP-0019730), 18S gene ( MF446424 , specimen ZFMK-DIP-0019730), protein-coding COI gene ( MF446519 , specimen ZFMK-DIP-0019730). The BOLD Process IDs for the DNA barcodes (5′–COI) for this species are: SYC5088-14 (= KX054853 , specimen symbiocode_05171) and SYC7899-14 (= KX054854 , specimen symbiocode_08023). The Barcode Index Number (BIN) for these specimens is BOLD:ACN4472 (https://doi.org/10.5883/BOLD:ACN4472). References Macquart 1855: 112 (description); Bezzi 1928: 82 (cit.); Aubertin & Cheesman 1929: 173 (records); Hull 1937: 84 (catalogue, note); Thompson 1989: 16 (cit.); Thompson & Vockeroth 1989: 457 (catalogue); Lyneborg & Barkemeyer 2005: 168 (redescription, diagnosis, male genitalia, bionomics). Remarks We report here the first record of this species from the Tuamotu Islands. Lyneborg & Barkemeyer (2005) clarified the status of this species and the allopatric Syritta luteinervis de Meijere, 1908 , and they explained the error of the New Zealand record for S. oceanica .