Brachyopa minima (Diptera: Syrphidae), a new species from Greece with notes on the biodiversity and conservation of the genus Brachyopa Meigen in the Northern Aegean Islands
Author
Pérez-Bañón, Celeste
Author
Radenković, Snezana
Author
Vujić, Ante
Author
Ståhls, Gunilla
Author
Rojo, Santos
Author
Grković, Ana
Author
Petanidou, Theodora
text
Zootaxa
2016
4072
2
217
234
journal article
46869
10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.5
e2074875-e2a7-4912-8291-67ac248be3a0
1175-5326
270665
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Key to the members of the
Brachyopa quadrimaculosa
species group in the Eastern Mediterranean
(following
Doczkal & Dziock 2004
)
1. Scutellum entirely covered in microtrichia.................................
Brachyopa bimaculosa
Doczkal & Dziock
- Scutellum largely bare of microtrichia, at least on posterior 1/2–1/3.............................................. 2
2. Proepimeron with a few pile anteriorly. Scutum with rounded bare spots at the transverse suture (
Figs 3
C & D)........... 3
- Proepimeron bare. Scutum with microtrichose transverse suture................................................. 5
3. Lateral sides of scutum uniformly covered with light grey microtrichia.......
Brachyopa vernalis
van Steenis & van Steenis
- Lateral sides of scutum with stripes of dark grey microtrichia... (as in
Fig. 3
C)..................................... 4
4. Postalar callus with a very small bare spot (
Fig. 3
C); male terminalia illustrated in
Kaplan & Thompson (1981: 209, Figs 16– 18)
...............................................
Brachyopa quadrimaculosa
Thompson
in Kaplan & Thompson
- Postalar callus with large bare spot (see van Steenis & van Steenis 2004:
Fig. 4
)..................................................................................................
Brachyopa cruriscutum
van Steenis & van Steenis
5. Sensory pit present; scutum with bare spots and stripes (
Figs 3
A & B); tergites with pale pile; male terminalia in
Figs 4–5
..................................................................................
Brachyopa minima
sp. nov.
- Sensory pit absent; scutum completely microtrichose except for the postalar callus; second tergite with black pile posteromedi- ally in female (can be absent in male); (male terminalia illustrated in Vujić (1991: 147,
Fig. 4
B).......................................................................................................
Brachyopa insensilis
Collin