Revision of the Neotropical hoverfly genus Peradon Reemer (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae)
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Reemer, Menno
Author
Skevington, Jeffrey H.
Author
Kelso, Scott
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Peradon aurifascia (Hull)
Figs 38
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70
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71
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134
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135
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157
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160
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273
Microdon aurifascia
Hull, 1944c: 245. Holotype ♂: Brazil,
Sao
Paulo (NHMUK) [examined];
Thompson et al. 1976
: 63.
Peradon aurifascia
(Hull):
Reemer and
Stahls
2013a
: 145.
Studied type specimens.
Brazil • 1 ♂, holotype of
Microdon aurifascia
Hull; Sao Paulo, Alto da Serra; 12 Mar. 1912; G.E. Bryant leg.; NHMUK.
Label 1 (small, round, red-bordered): "Holo- / type"; label 2: "Alto da Serra, / Sao Paulo, / Brazil. / G.E. Bryant. / 12.III.1912."; label 3 (red): "Holotype / Microdon / aurifascia / Hull". Coll. NHMUK.
Additional specimens.
Argentina • 1 ♀; Misiones, Leandro N. Alem; 24 Feb. 1951; Duret leg.; MNHN.
Brazil • 1♀; Nova Teutonia; 14 Oct. 1940; F. Plaumann leg.; CNC • 1 ♂;
Sao
Paulo, M. das Cruses; Aug. 1939; M. Carrera leg.; CNC • 1 ♂; Est. Biol.
Boraceia
,
Salesopolis
, S.P.; 16 Sep. 1993; W. Wilms leg.; CSCA • 1 ♀; Est. Biol.
Boraceia
,
Salesopolis
, S.P.; 19 Sep. 1965; Rabello leg.; MZUSP • 1 ♀; Floresta da Tijuca; Mar. 1964; C.A.C. Seabra leg.; MZUSP.
Diagnosis.
Body length: male 12.5-13 mm, female 14-15 mm. A large species with elongate, unconstricted abdomen. Male with wing yellowish (
Fig. 38
,
134
), female with wing yellow only anterobasally and with grey subapical cloud (
Fig. 135
). The abdomen is dark brown, except for a pair of yellow maculae on tergite 2. The species resembles
P. angustiventris
and especially
P. luridescens
but differs from those by the absence of a fascia of golden pile along the mesonotal transverse suture. It also differs from most other
Peradon
species (except for some small species of the
flavofascium
group) in the smooth and shining bare median facial vitta (
Fig. 70
). Male genitalia as in
Fig. 273
.
Distribution.
Known from the Misiones province in northeastern Argentina and from the Santa Catarina and
Sao
Paulo states in southern Brazil.