Notes on Citrogramma Vockeroth and Eosphaerophoria Frey (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Author
Mengual, Ximo
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Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3745.3.6
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Eosphaerophoria marginata
Frey, 1946
Eosphaerophoria marginata
Frey, 1946
. Not. Entomol., 25 [1945]: 169.
Lectotype
: m,
Philippines
: Luzon, Mt. Banahao [MZH, Helsinki] designated by Mengual & Ghorpadé 2010; Knutson
et al
. 1975: 313, cat. cit.; Claussen & Weipert 2003: 354, figs; Mengual & Ghorpadé 2010: 63, descr., figs, key.
Mengual & Ghorpadé (2010) re-describe the male and female of
E. marginata
, and provide an identification key and figures of wing, thorax, abdomen, and male genitalia.
While visiting the IRSNB, a female specimen of
E. marginata
from
Vietnam
was found. This represents the first published record of this genus for 20 years, and the most recent individual of
E. marginata
collected during the last 30 years. It also extends the distribution area of this species from the
Philippines
and
Thailand
to
Vietnam
. The number of
Eosphaerophoria
species from
Vietnam
in increased to three, other species occurring are
E. symmetrica
Mengual
in Mengual & Ghorpadé, 2010 and
E. vietnamensis
Mengual
in Mengual & Ghorpadé, 2010.
Mengual & Ghorpadé (2010) state that nothing is known about the biology of
Eosphaerophoria
, except that Keiser (1958: 204) collected his specimen in the grass in a swampy locality. They also state that more species and specimens might be found in the future, especially when using Malaise traps. In fact, this new
E. marginata
specimen from
Vietnam
was collected with a Malaise trap at Nui
Pia Oac Nature Reserve
, which was decreed as a nature reserve in 1986, centred on Mount
Pia Oac
, 1,931 masl (Tordoff
et al.
2000). Nui
Pia Oac Nature Reserve
supports low, medium and high altitude montane broadleaf evergreen forests (Tordoff
et al.
2000). The new specimen of
Eosphaerophoria
was collected near the summit of the Mount
Pia Oac
, in a clearing of high altitude montane evergreen forest (J. Constant, personal communication), a habitat clearly differing from the swampy locality of Keiser (1958).
Interestingly, the female from
Vietnam
shares the abdominal pattern with the female from
Thailand
, which is a bit different from the abdominal pattern of the female
paratype
from the
Philippines
(see Mengual & Ghorpadé 2010: 58, Figs. 40–41). Mengual & Ghorpadé (2010) state that more material will be needed to re-assess the status of the
E. marginata
population outside the
Philippines
. Nothing more can be strongly affirmed, but females from
Vietnam
and
Thailand
share a common abdominal pattern, which is slightly different from the one of the
paratype
females.
Material examined
.
1 female
, ‘
VIETNAM
: Pia-Oac / Mt. NR (Malaise Trap) /
22°36'N
105°53'E
/
04– 06.viii.2010
/ Leg.: J. Constant & / P. Limbourg I.G.31.668’ [IRSNB].