Neotropical Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) breeding in Agavaceae and Cactaceae including seven new species
Author
Rotheray, Graham E.
Author
Marcos-García, Maria-Angeles
Author
Hancock, Geoff
Author
Pérez-Bañón, Celeste
Author
Maier, Chris T.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2009
2009-08-31
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4
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00503.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00503.x
0024-4082
5443474
COPESTYLUM COCKERELLI
(CURRAN, 1927)
Puparium:
Anterodorsal margin of mesothorax with enlarged setae (conspicuously longer than surrounding vestiture, not spicules. Dorsal vestiture of abdomen confined to medial areas of transverse folds. Crochets entirely black. Posterior breathing tube dark brown, short, less than half as wide as puparium, AP short, only about 0.4¥ as long as TR is wide, lightly punctate, tapering but bulging out horizontally (
Fig. 60
). Pupal spiracles as long as AP and about 2.5¥ as wide apart as a pupal spiracle is long.
Material examined:
1 ♂
,
3 ♀
, four puparia
PERU
,
Trujillo
,
Cerro Campana
,
17.i.2005
, ex decaying columnar
Cactaceae
,
Espostoa melanostele
(Vaupel) Bullock 1938
, collected by
M. A.
M. (
CIBIO
)
;
1 ♀
, one puparium same data as previous specimens (
NMS
)
.
Taxonomic notes:
The puparium of
C. cockerelli
is distinguished from other Scutellatum group larvae considered here by the dorsal vestiture of the abdomen being confined to medial areas of the transverse folds, the entirely black crochets, and the short, horizontally bulging AP.