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, [specimen dry pinned]. Original labels: [No. 1187. /
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/ Vockeroth ‘ 69 ’, ‘
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and
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cited
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="67A5FC6B5ABE5126032093BFE7679914" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" page="185" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993: 185)</bibRefCitation>
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designated a “
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<taxonomicName id="B381EE217A17F4492DDE88E678B1D0EF" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="43980E453BDFC8B88B8C7EA3128678F2" italics="true">Merodon pallidus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
was described based on
|
||
<specimenCount id="4CCDECE3340C174EA7F2C70F9609DA26" count="1" type="female">one female</specimenCount>
|
||
and there are no indications that the specimen mentioned in
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="7AC629C7D5FE27BECDFCDC5890A71895" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
belongs to the type material. A
|
||
<typeStatus id="5CEEED6B7EC5B5AE90B12510023EE2A4" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
|
||
may be designated from
|
||
<typeStatus id="4775B56F8B881A5FDE009944076FA3B6" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="E63DDE446E755E663C36DF96DD920746">ICZN</collectionCode>
|
||
1999), but Hurkmans “
|
||
<typeStatus id="9D862BB5F33E4D5077D0EDF892F01310" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
|
||
” was erroneously designated as the type. The identity of the Hurkmans “
|
||
<typeStatus id="7E6630922C109E25E2D3D28E870DEF7A" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
|
||
” could not be validated because this specimen is not located in any museum. Based on our assessment of morphological data,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="469A66B47DA6661386E4C3C49519CD3A" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="029A13189B79012E5B24400A106BFE30" italics="true">M. pallidus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is a valid taxon, which we redefine herein. Based on our analysis of material belonging to distinct individuals collected from
|
||
<collectingCountry id="224D4E360B51C98859BB383CD3EB614E" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="92831395579BBF852CD33751DE966B10" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="08B77EA5536E5F0C9BE46E1BA8E9A625" name="Pakistan">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="A322FCC9B91BB92FD47B311B0E52F08B" name="Palestine">Palestine</collectingCountry>
|
||
and
|
||
<collectingCountry id="61DFBFA146CA89A9B603557F16DBA3EF" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
|
||
(
|
||
<specimenCount id="42D81C21DC610BDFC67C581EB94A22F8" count="10" type="female">10 females</specimenCount>
|
||
,
|
||
<specimenCount id="DB3B9A67F55E255394631B789F76E194" count="7" type="male">7 males</specimenCount>
|
||
), the females are conspecific with the
|
||
<typeStatus id="1450EAF97962D74971FD9762C49725ED" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="BC8C274FF1B30FB607738A079F13A0A9" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="5F29CC5F03814BE6BD26B2D035CE0615" italics="true">M. pallidus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, so we re-describe the male herein.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="SECID0EWRCK" type="diagnosis">
|
||
<paragraph id="8A8861899DFA7CB18B03C8CAF77E8052">
|
||
<heading id="3A67354A01E1FC30E7B2480F5C720850" reason="title">Diagnosis.</heading>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="C45F126DBB8DDEC47E86EFBF26D43609">
|
||
Sternum 3 with long and dense pile medially (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="8C3FF2F6938DA934BD5A96A891F58482" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. S 3 of male, dorsolateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. B, D area with distinct long pile marked with arrow. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057103">30 D</figureCitation>
|
||
: marked with arrow). In male the metatrochanter has a less distinct calcar (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="D380CD7CAE23FD7DC25F037B35C3E8BE" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 D</figureCitation>
|
||
); metafemur broad (~ 3 × longer than wide), strongly curved, covered with long and dense pilosity ventrally (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="1FA81304EF64E060039442049BB0D124" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 D</figureCitation>
|
||
); sternum
|
||
<quantity id="F6BB60F149695035FE2969AB6993906B" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.016" unit="in" value="4.0">4 in</quantity>
|
||
Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="9357E30BDFD78D2B978CE9E9A1BCC35B" captionStart="Figure 28" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figure 28. S 4 of male, dorsal view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure28" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057101">28 D</figureCitation>
|
||
. Female with angular metatrochanter and long and sparse pile on metafemur ventrally (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="B86DE0B8B52C5FD5EEC4D71AF8B5164D" captionStart="Figure 31" captionStartId="F31" captionText="Figure 31. Metaleg of female, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. obscurus C M. pallidus D M. pruni. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure31" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057104">31 C</figureCitation>
|
||
). Male genitalia in Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="F6D4C199B7529FC386214DBDD5454A45" captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Male genitalia M. pallidus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111">38</figureCitation>
|
||
. Similar to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B702A8E1FB8A1ABA6C82C7405A9FA0C5" authority="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski, 2024" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aequalis" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="6BA08025347EC4D335A225D3396D39D2" italics="true">Merodon aequalis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="BC6FCCDEF5CE0A8F0D1B0C4C54009644" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
from which differs by sternum 3 with an area of long pilosity medially (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="3B18515E90BD0B2B534365FC7C951A85" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. S 3 of male, dorsolateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. B, D area with distinct long pile marked with arrow. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057103">30 D</figureCitation>
|
||
: marked with arrow) (in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="D3D253F64C5838CCDC0D45A9352BF58B" authority="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski, 2024" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aequalis" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="64A3E99150D29F6F9B4E5D8E67BF079F" italics="true">M. aequalis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="DB1D4F4D56E3E5C2003557FF5BED66A9" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
sternum 3 has equally distributed pilosity of the same length; Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="DB7AB2A195B95F164C551F27F36B30E0" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. S 3 of male, dorsolateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. B, D area with distinct long pile marked with arrow. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057103">30 A</figureCitation>
|
||
); the shape of sternum 4 of male (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="1D1D431E2A2DC205CDB0CBF565841CA2" captionStart="Figure 28" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figure 28. S 4 of male, dorsal view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure28" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057101">28 D</figureCitation>
|
||
), which is slightly different in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="0D7A7839D2DF7DAF28EA937B2C8CFE20" authority="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski, 2024" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aequalis" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="125604924C3759D76D995019F5B0EC46" italics="true">M. aequalis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="F6B4F09E652716B5E555AD0F40B94F30" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
(Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="387C9CE480AB0C7221B83FED2335FF85" captionStart="Figure 28" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figure 28. S 4 of male, dorsal view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure28" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057101">28 A</figureCitation>
|
||
); and a distinct calcar on the metatrochanter of the male (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="328757B522995674F400190E92071C47" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 D</figureCitation>
|
||
) and female with an angular metatrochanter (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="8F3884CA35815416763BB6E19218CDEB" captionStart="Figure 31" captionStartId="F31" captionText="Figure 31. Metaleg of female, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. obscurus C M. pallidus D M. pruni. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure31" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057104">31 C</figureCitation>
|
||
) (in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="8D457FCB8E7A5441EDEEF0D64B5B5AAB" authority="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski, 2024" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aequalis" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="002A39151907E1C07489CA7EBC5260D8" italics="true">M. aequalis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2003C2138BE9F611ADEA737BA17E9E0F" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
the calcar is almost absent in both sexes; Figs
|
||
<figureCitation id="352D9A0EC2F55A332788531FD43B6F1B" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 A</figureCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<figureCitation id="064BC32DFD9AFFF8F1D8366985FB23C9" captionStart="Figure 31" captionStartId="F31" captionText="Figure 31. Metaleg of female, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. obscurus C M. pallidus D M. pruni. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure31" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057104">31 A</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="SECID0EAVCK" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph id="019AEDCB8C1C2C636C785EB38EBF7D25">
|
||
<heading id="FBA2E8A398ABEB5BFA424B6D7BD487B7" reason="title">Re-description.</heading>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="A4CFAB44CC5616BA27995EECB93CB0CE">
|
||
Male. Head. Pedicel and scapus reddish yellow; basoflagellomere from reddish yellow to brown (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="85F6B12FAF54A0B4D82A186332852EE8" captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. A – D basoflagellomera, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. obscurus C M. pallidus D M. pruni. E, F head od M. aequalis sp. nov., frontal view A – E male F female. Scale bar: 0.5 mm (A – D); 1 mm (E, F)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057097">24 C</figureCitation>
|
||
), short, oval, ~ 1.3 × longer than wide, and ~ 2 × longer than pedicel, concave dorsally; fossette large, dorsolateral; arista reddish to brown and thickened at basal third; arista ~ 2.5 × longer than basoflagellomere; face and frons black, with dense whitish pollinosity; face covered with dense whitish pilosity; pile on frons yellow-whitish; oral margin shiny black, with sparse pollinosity; lunula reddish to brown, bare; eye contiguity ~ 12 facets long; vertical triangle isosceles, shiny, black, covered with grey-yellowish pilosity; ocellar triangle isosceles; occiput with grey-yellow to whitish pile, and grey pollinose; eyes covered with short, whitish grey pile.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="D581FA8EEAD05FD7EE1D2F16F3DF22F8">
|
||
Thorax. Scutum and scutellum black with brownish lustre, covered with short, greyish white pile; pilosity near wing bases mostly black; lateral sides of scutum covered with long, golden to the greyish white pile; scutum with five distinct pollinose vittae (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="A455393E292F5B16BA17220E76D45565" captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F27" captionText="Figure 27. Body of male A M. pallidus B M. cupreus C – D M. obscurus E, F M. pruni A, C, E dorsal view B, D, F lateral view. Scale bar: 3 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057100">27 A</figureCitation>
|
||
); posterior margin of scutellum with long pilosity; posterodorsal part of anterior anepisternum, posterior anepisternum (except anteroventral angle), anterior anepimeron, dorsomedial anepimeron, and posterodorsal and anteroventral parts of katepisternum with dense greyish white pile; wings mostly covered with microtrichia; wing veins yellowish to light brown; calypteres and halteres whitish yellow; angular calcar on metatrochanter distinct; femora black except yellowish apex; metafemur broad, ~ 3 × longer than wide, covered with long whitish pilosity (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="E02A6817898B6267BC1AC6F3F5502249" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 D</figureCitation>
|
||
); tibiae yellow to reddish, except brown medial ring; tarsi yellowish red, in some specimens brown dorsally.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="67FA22EFFF2741FE55222B7B0E2B39C2">
|
||
Abdomen. Elongated, ~ 1.3 × longer than mesonotum; tergum 1 black, terga 2–4 usually reddish yellow, in some specimens medially partly black; terga with a pair of broad, distinct silver-grey pollinose fasciate maculae (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="CB4A13A3E7221BDA453ACA935EBC81B5" captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F27" captionText="Figure 27. Body of male A M. pallidus B M. cupreus C – D M. obscurus E, F M. pruni A, C, E dorsal view B, D, F lateral view. Scale bar: 3 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057100">27 A</figureCitation>
|
||
); pile on terga whitish, medially short, adpressed; sterna brown, covered with long, whitish pile; sternum 3 with an area of long pilosity medially (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="8867D5EA61DEF246196C7A86068319E1" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. S 3 of male, dorsolateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. B, D area with distinct long pile marked with arrow. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057103">30 D</figureCitation>
|
||
: marked with arrow); posterior margin of sternum 4 with characteristic medial circular structure (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="A66B1C66B0EAA5A6A2719743192EEF09" captionStart="Figure 28" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figure 28. S 4 of male, dorsal view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure28" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057101">28 D</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="D737FF47F7F61FD74570DC6C442C08DF">
|
||
Male genitalia (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="D1952EBD11D5BBF0C1B9B8E043959714" captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Male genitalia M. pallidus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111">38</figureCitation>
|
||
). Anterior surstylar lobe triangular (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="AAFB5C45628A6C71E7CD97346FA3F247" captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Male genitalia M. pallidus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111">38 A</figureCitation>
|
||
: al); posterior surstylar lobe large and broad (~ 2 × longer than wide) (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="CBAEDA0423694D3299657F375A74E063" captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Male genitalia M. pallidus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111">38 A</figureCitation>
|
||
: pl); cercus trapezoid (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="49EDD94C96CB66CE93DAACEE8DB23134" captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Male genitalia M. pallidus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111">38 A</figureCitation>
|
||
: c); hypandrium sickle-shaped, without lateral projections; lingula long (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="B74A411DBBD4AF7868246A40451A336E" captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Male genitalia M. pallidus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111">38 C</figureCitation>
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: l).
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</paragraph>
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<caption id="4F2D852BCB443B941CD3BDF9857671F9" ID-DOI="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure38" ID-arpha="E7C91A65-C425-55F8-89CB-614F40559246" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057111" startId="F38">
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<paragraph id="483A6AD797AC37A4FF24A852366D4A4F">
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<label id="F43B208CF40A1C0DB907BE16EEC8473D">Figure 38.</label>
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<paragraph id="DE10774545DA5CA8ADC3EF4B4A0A9199">
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Male genitalia
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<taxonomicName id="0D055728FF9852968EF7CD14BECE2249" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
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<emphasis id="590D2BFF3D3CF24B29C08EE1C1795E7C" italics="true">M. pallidus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="27D9E3FF1DF7F9653886552AB50B74CE" bold="true">A, B</emphasis>
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epandrium
|
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<emphasis id="2FF4E8E139ED39D153DDFB7F6E3EBF97" bold="true">C</emphasis>
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hypandrium
|
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<emphasis id="709A9FA635B6D80FFD1645DCCAB9F509" bold="true">A, C</emphasis>
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lateral view
|
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<emphasis id="9170A3F638A5656C40B806D5DDA1A09C" bold="true">B</emphasis>
|
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ventral view. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<paragraph id="A5741BFC5D39E4EC3CFBF9637430E87E">
|
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Female. Similar to the male except for normal sexual dimorphism and the following characteristics: frons covered with whitish pollinosity; scutum between wing bases with more black pilosity; metafemur narrower (~ 3.5 × longer than wide), with ventral pilosity shorter than in male (Fig.
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<figureCitation id="D5100CA51D3D9CBA6DA3EF7788874BD5" captionStart="Figure 31" captionStartId="F31" captionText="Figure 31. Metaleg of female, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. obscurus C M. pallidus D M. pruni. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure31" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057104">31 C</figureCitation>
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); terga 3 and 4 with short adpressed black pilosity medially on dark parts.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="SECID0E5XCK" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="69DD0591450D101A45AC20B650E43254">
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<heading id="2F5CFBB7E3CCEA1CCD9E54B3CF1EEFF4" reason="title">Distribution and biology.</heading>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EA303012762264C5C64EDA96539D9A32">
|
||
The species range includes
|
||
<collectingCountry id="034E31A2786D7AC220E8996F68B8A601" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
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||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="A58408BAAA42631549A7822596160BDB" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
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||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="7E29139C0643179EC0A0ABC2CBDD260A" name="Pakistan">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
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||
, the
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C41734D4F55E402D591C64E0B8B41D10" name="Palestine">State of Palestine</collectingCountry>
|
||
and
|
||
<collectingCountry id="468C54595CAAA2A33B91CCBCBCDFD153" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
|
||
(Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="66D37186EFF5995D64134740B8623BD7" captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Distribution map of Merodon pallidus." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057112">39</figureCitation>
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||
; Suppl. material
|
||
<xref id="9FC7EFF2CF9BD0109205721941EB0BBA" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S2">2</xref>
|
||
). In
|
||
<collectingCountry id="7D4A2A9FCC8616927952057FA95505FD" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
|
||
, it has been recorded within arid and semi-arid forest ecosystems where
|
||
<taxonomicName id="0ABF04BA72BF0AC4FF1345ADEC6FD7EC" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fagaceae" genus="Quercus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fagales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="brantii">
|
||
<emphasis id="220DB6145F8E58FE84E8FF16C135F3C9" italics="true">Quercus brantii</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is the dominant vegetation
|
||
<typeStatus id="4D9F45076C13A5BF62595C9D0150C90E">type</typeStatus>
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(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="F4F65B5EFA1A1E7C824280FED82B9C03" DOI="10.1007/s10661-020-8145-1" author="Azizi Jalilian" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Azizi Jalilian" issue="3" journalOrPublisher="Environmental Monitoring and Assessment" pagination="1-17" refId="B5" refString="Azizi Jalilian M, Shayesteh K, Danehkar A, Salmanmahiny A (2020) A new ecosystem-based land classification of Iran for conservation goals. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 192 (3): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-8145-1" title="A new ecosystem-based land classification of Iran for conservation goals." volume="192" year="2020">Azizi Jalilian et al. 2020</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) belonging to the
|
||
<collectingRegion id="B05B1F65D55E5B7A551AF40D2132B438" country="Iran" name="Alborz">Elburz</collectingRegion>
|
||
range forest steppe ecoregion (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="46C0CC8FE928BB90A8A33FB821FF02BF" DOI="10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2" author="Olson" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Olson" refId="B44" refString="Olson DM, Dinerstein E, Wikramanayake ED, Burgess ND, Powell GV, Underwood EC, D’amico JA, Itoua I, Strand HE, Morrison JC, Loucks CJ, Allnutt TF, Ricketts TH, Kura Y, Lamoreux JF, Wettengel WW, Hedao P, Kassem KR (2001) Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth A new global map of terrestrial ecoregions provides an innovative tool for conserving biodiversity. Bioscience 51 (11): 933–938. https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568 (2001) 051 [0933: TEOTWA] 2.0. CO; 2" year="2001">Olson et al. 2001</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). The western part of the range of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="564BF831F5A14F3A3C001DF676D7D98B" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="22B2CCCDB450BBF46C5F9E16B47BFE3A" italics="true">Merodon pallidus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectingCountry id="0F714FC0B6E30E0CC284F752371669B5" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="E5BD88AA789B43DBBAF636BB279DC5B4" name="Palestine">State of Palestine</collectingCountry>
|
||
and
|
||
<collectingCountry id="9D13BC4E631A162893102D51D840D14C" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
|
||
) belongs to the Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests ecoregions The vegetation of this ecoregion includes maquis, coniferous forests of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E702B8143FBC8E019BABF8B83A935248" authority="Mill." authorityName="Mill." class="Pinopsida" family="Pinaceae" genus="Pinus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="halepensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="C9D18B606985127ECEA7F0B7C667ACAB" italics="true">Pinus halepensis</emphasis>
|
||
Mill.
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="9B67AE7A52D27F5F54E4C8DD954E4AAF" class="Pinopsida" family="Pinaceae" genus="Pinus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="brutia">
|
||
<emphasis id="05D8A186641555F80889D7439CBA2C9C" italics="true">P. brutia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Ten., dry
|
||
<taxonomicName id="DC5ECBE0B7E7E3FF55A7FD78A566B5A6" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fagaceae" genus="Quercus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fagales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
|
||
<emphasis id="F388E8474DA4AE88E63CDDFC8748CB35" italics="true">Quercus</emphasis>
|
||
spp.
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
woodlands and steppe formations (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="87BCDA69A8C154052F6AD3A2D81814F7" refId="B91" refString="WWF (2022) Ecoregions. https://www.worldwildlife.org/" url="https://www.worldwildlife.org/" year="2022">WWF 2022</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). In
|
||
<collectingCountry id="DC6571C316CC7CC21EE836321FAD0D70" name="Pakistan">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="2DE41C665CDC761E458B5A619FC243BD" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="BEE567D9875BE5FC6379A65F659EBA1F" italics="true">M. pallidus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
occurs in warm conifer / mixed forests (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="D8AF8E874D344145B37C0B8647B528A0" DOI="10.3354/cr012195" author="Siddiqui" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Siddiqui" issue="2-3" journalOrPublisher="Climate Research" pagination="195-203" refId="B66" refString="Siddiqui KM, Mohammad I, Ayaz M (1999) Forest ecosystem climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies for Pakistan. Climate Research 12 (2–3): 195–203. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr012195" title="Forest ecosystem climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies for Pakistan." volume="12" year="1999">Siddiqui et al. 1999</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Flight period: April / August. Developmental stages: not described.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption id="953285EDCD1E2B4EFFA80F3FBE1713E8" ID-DOI="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure39" ID-arpha="0FB9A844-BA92-513B-AA79-9B44138E93BB" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057112" startId="F39">
|
||
<paragraph id="33890149F29C084327BA6E2F0C423485">
|
||
<label id="91626A1FFD4A5661C72AD8CC815AD27A">Figure 39.</label>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="AE9F428AE9B5918F39EE7A65F5CE47FF">
|
||
Distribution map of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E007A8BB932EC18723AE63216FB1E64E" authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1842" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="FB6F3FD2F05DE29C8C30B7C124F7AF6A" italics="true">Merodon pallidus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph id="BA328E5E5D7B2DAF3A9E08BED8C5EB75">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="245884F228EC13E25C2C9D2FF6EDC6AC" authority="(Rossi, 1790)" baseAuthorityName="Rossi" baseAuthorityYear="1790" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pruni">
|
||
<emphasis id="36EAC40AFD724A588240AB3D5A05DDE5" bold="true">
|
||
<emphasis id="C292F34619AF735729134A5A237D537B" bold="true" italics="true">Merodon pruni</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="2FC27DD20E64AEEA0F432325E88B6F11" DOI="10.5962/bhl.title.15771" author="Rossi P" journalOrPublisher="Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni" refId="B62" refString="Rossi P (1790) Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus. Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni, 348 pp. [+ 10 pl.] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15771" title="Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus." year="1790">Rossi, 1790</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="894A98BA789040BBFFA3707077DE70AA">
|
||
<treatmentCitationGroup id="38883BE84A83013DDF6C17C14F48236E">
|
||
<treatmentCitation id="17E81F2CAF24A5959CD31D25E5E18F7C" author="Rossi P" page="293" year="1790">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="1BE2B27D62C3AF53FFFDCA410E3B9D25" ID-CoL="8F887" authority="Rossi, 1790: 293" authorityName="Rossi" authorityPageNumber="293" authorityYear="1790" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Syrphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pruni">
|
||
<emphasis id="B0F052F8DBCB24C04AA0F6F2920E4B4B" italics="true">Syrphus pruni</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="06A3B62FD1D2F428FD08ED05CCF0BBB8" DOI="10.5962/bhl.title.15771" author="Rossi P" journalOrPublisher="Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni" refId="B62" refString="Rossi P (1790) Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus. Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni, 348 pp. [+ 10 pl.] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15771" title="Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus." year="1790">Rossi, 1790: 293</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
</treatmentCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</treatmentCitationGroup>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="7CD7752172E309F298B66B36C1C7FF98">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="FCEDC2A533BB216D5613D583EA63F714" authority="Macquart, 1834: 514" authorityName="Macquart" authorityPageNumber="514" authorityYear="1834" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fulvus">
|
||
<emphasis id="130145FDFF8FC8E4567AA43E53CBE017" italics="true">Merodon fulvus</emphasis>
|
||
Macquart, 1834: 514
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="C00BD8FDDCABE3A3BE66156ADBD37770">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="D81FD178B51069E759A25969E7AA6EC9" authority="Rondani, 1845: 258" authorityName="Rondani" authorityPageNumber="258" authorityYear="1845" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sicanus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B8ADD0E40409A524A304913BC2C6D7C6" italics="true">Merodon sicanus</emphasis>
|
||
Rondani, 1845: 258
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, 264.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="C4BC9687B5B67D3E728C7627849AFA3C">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B14139079DFA1B5B544668E141663FFA" authority="Von Roder, 1887: 73" authorityName="Von Roder" authorityPageNumber="73" authorityYear="1887" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fuscinervis">
|
||
<emphasis id="5D399DAFA371E94A958B93AA48B87C5C" italics="true">Merodon fuscinervis</emphasis>
|
||
Von Röder, 1887: 73
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8EB812D7941828353EFA5472FB7CB463">
|
||
<treatmentCitationGroup id="E398378B5531DD9F720D6117C65DA03D">
|
||
<treatmentCitation id="00FBF3938AC99E67EE7CDE103D083EDC" author="Rossi P" page="293" year="1790">
|
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<taxonomicName id="05F051CF6452F2110FFFAE8A51B64B97" ID-CoL="8F887" authority="Rossi, 1790: 293" authorityName="Rossi" authorityPageNumber="293" authorityYear="1790" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Syrphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pruni">
|
||
<emphasis id="C33871E1F52DDE1C71663F9117160284" bold="true">
|
||
<emphasis id="6D48E60F115986EA8F72F3849DF814E8" bold="true" italics="true">Syrphus pruni</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="2473EBD6DD015DD00AA79C538F8314C8" DOI="10.5962/bhl.title.15771" author="Rossi P" journalOrPublisher="Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni" refId="B62" refString="Rossi P (1790) Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus. Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni, 348 pp. [+ 10 pl.] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15771" title="Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus." year="1790">Rossi, 1790: 293</bibRefCitation>
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</emphasis>
|
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
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|
||
</treatmentCitationGroup>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="3C98D6E8FD5C4C7BAF64530F2582B501">
|
||
<emphasis id="67233A30C4C6E37165B1546517C9812D" bold="true">Type locality.</emphasis>
|
||
<collectingCountry id="13C30C9CB081CD76A7204B93ACB83624" name="Italy">Italy</collectingCountry>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectingRegion id="313136D0025DF24FEEC74A73AED9FED4" country="Italy" name="Toscana">Toscana</collectingRegion>
|
||
). The original description was based on an unspecified number of
|
||
<typeStatus id="78486BFAB3FAA3757D6AAADB0F518A90" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="C69A403242C3E2F8B8D2AD07D9F9C5AC" DOI="10.5962/bhl.title.15771" author="Rossi P" firstAuthor="Rossi" journalOrPublisher="Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni" page="293" refId="B62" refString="Rossi P (1790) Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus. Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni, 348 pp. [+ 10 pl.] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15771" title="Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus." year="1790">Rossi 1790: 293</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Type material could not be traced ‘ in provinciis Florentina et Pisana’ [Firenze and Pizza,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="A534471ADD9F93BBE7DC3045B62B2CD2" name="Italy">Italy</collectingCountry>
|
||
] [not located, not examined]. Based on the description and figure from the original publication (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="A500E85383DE6C03CEBEDA7CD2E66AA1" DOI="10.5962/bhl.title.15771" author="Rossi" firstAuthor="Rossi" journalOrPublisher="Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni" refId="B62" refString="Rossi P (1790) Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus. Thomae Masi et Sociorum, Liburni, 348 pp. [+ 10 pl.] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15771" title="Fauna etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus secundus." year="1790">Rossi 1790</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), the identity of types is clear and fits the actual concept of species presented in
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="E87B8AC1A3ACED9D34E5A9942A1BCB35" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" page="185" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993: 185)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
. This species was cited in recent European publications (e. g.
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="2FC76B59E554F76EA27FCB31F9C55CB6" author="Speight" firstAuthor="Speight" journalOrPublisher="Syrph the Net publications, Dublin" refId="B68" refString="Speight MCD (2020) Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Syrph the Net publications, Dublin, 314 pp." title="Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera)." year="2020">Speight 2020</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="7876E46B5BE3661D93999684D7DF34F2" DOI="10.3897/zookeys.1031.62125" author="Vujić A & Radenković S & Likov L & Veselić S" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pagination="85-124" refId="B86" refString="Vujić A, Radenković S, Likov L, Veselić S (2021 a) Taxonomic complexity in the genus Merodon Meigen, 1803 (Diptera, Syrphidae). ZooKeys 1031: 85–124. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1031.62125" title="Taxonomic complexity in the genus Merodon Meigen, 1803 (Diptera, Syrphidae)." volume="1031">Vujić et al. 2021 a</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="78C453DE462C7D90F04A96ED40927D19">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="FB6714F79131697713D977D98AA9D958" authority="Macquart, 1834: 514" authorityName="Macquart" authorityPageNumber="514" authorityYear="1834" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fulvus">
|
||
<emphasis id="EC4707447DB9697D7ADB1097F8A54925" bold="true">
|
||
<emphasis id="22BDCD8208B12A281011302757E9FEC1" bold="true" italics="true">Merodon fulvus</emphasis>
|
||
Macquart, 1834: 514
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="FA9EFE67EE7EE15B35D87C45B5250054">
|
||
<emphasis id="02A0D4E0C8BBAEB28EF204177E3C09D0" bold="true">
|
||
<typeStatus id="2EC6EDAC3CE4897487E554CAD3299521">Type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
<collectingCountry id="D6C87DA153CC585017B80DC889E11D0F" name="France">France</collectingCountry>
|
||
(“
|
||
<collectingCountry id="ECD164773DAEE7B2F9F7B57A58E73865" name="France">France</collectingCountry>
|
||
méridionale ”). Synonymy with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="41A6FC421A7FACE31C771D7A5A39B8EC" baseAuthorityName="Rossi" baseAuthorityYear="1790" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pruni">
|
||
<emphasis id="13023052C60D6000965E362DBCF97DF9" italics="true">Merodon pruni</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
was cited in
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="FE7A9A164E5B5B212A53ED4BA31C4414" author="Sack P" editor="Lindner E" firstAuthor="Sack" journalOrPublisher="E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 4 (6)" pagination="289-336" refId="B64" refString="Sack P (1931) Syrphidae. In: Lindner E (Ed.) Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region. E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 4 (6), 289–336." title="Syrphidae." volumeTitle="Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region." year="1931">Sack (1931)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="6695364935F4EEB5E9E28113E430BC0D" author="Peck LV" editor="Soós Á & Papp L" firstAuthor="Peck" journalOrPublisher="8 (Syrphidae - Conopidae). Elsevier Science Publishers & Akadémiai Kiadó, Amsterdam, Budapest" page="172" pagination="11-230" refId="B48" refString="Peck LV (1988) Family Syrphidae. In: Soós Á, Papp L (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol. 8 (Syrphidae — Conopidae). Elsevier Science Publishers & Akadémiai Kiadó, Amsterdam, Budapest, 11–230." title="Family Syrphidae." volumeTitle="Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol." year="1988">Peck (1988: 172)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
and
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="78143DDFBEE763E35D53F34211694BD7" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" page="185" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993: 185)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
<typeStatus id="A100B189AE413243FC719B46F27528EE">Type</typeStatus>
|
||
material presumably lost.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="5F0E39C8B62B96428E53EB68E2194D26">
|
||
<emphasis id="6CF831AE447452F10C06E4F6B98F5C70" bold="true">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="3BBA93470BB3BC0E568BCD38340A206A" authority="Rondani, 1845: 258" authorityName="Rondani" authorityPageNumber="258" authorityYear="1845" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sicanus">
|
||
<emphasis id="E59B8BAEFFB4118F34BCF62C1075525B" bold="true" italics="true">Merodon sicanus</emphasis>
|
||
Rondani, 1845: 258
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, 264
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="A212440507FF3FC9A34F46F6429889B6">
|
||
<emphasis id="32ED3EDC0FB29D344E9E472A9370B567" bold="true">Type locality.</emphasis>
|
||
<collectingCountry id="5BC208AA75209119C23EABC87219213C" name="Italy">Italy</collectingCountry>
|
||
, “
|
||
<collectingRegion id="7F3C2A568D8BF9FA85E57F1F83D2AD08" country="Italy" name="Sicilia">Sicilia</collectingRegion>
|
||
”. The original description was based on
|
||
<specimenCount id="14DA40A46E7161E74C4BD4EB9C184B5B" count="2" type="female">two female</specimenCount>
|
||
<typeStatus id="EA990C8213E0481C8E0CE9CE2DAFC09F" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
|
||
.
|
||
<specimenCount id="CD39F04B9E5C12DF117FC5B2EA302168" count="1" type="generic" typeStatus="syntype">One syntype</specimenCount>
|
||
was designated as a
|
||
<typeStatus id="F2A8F3ABEE86585FCECE0BF470227CA4" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
|
||
by
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="0B982C1087DA19771694351441BABEFA" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" page="185" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993: 185)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
: Original label [58] [number referring to the description of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="46EED22247965FEBB2501E00A1C84F64" authorityName="Rondani" authorityYear="1845" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sicanus">
|
||
<emphasis id="FC50A6F4F248A94016BAC2870B8971DD" italics="true">Merodon sicanus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in the museum’s catalogue of Rondani collection]. This designation was based on
|
||
<typeStatus id="33DD66808EF94C5DD9ED54C8BCD03699" type="syntype">syntype</typeStatus>
|
||
(examined) deposited in the
|
||
<abbrev content-type="institution" id="ABBRID0EMBDK" xlink_title="Museo Zoologico La Specola, Firenze, Italy">
|
||
<collectionCode id="DD870C7155EFBC373013091E52F76CCD">LSF</collectionCode>
|
||
</abbrev>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="440E072776E498A62CF7834E44A04469">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="1A1DE0CB48E9650CF70DF59D5A938BBF" authority="Von Roder, 1887: 73" authorityName="Von Roder" authorityPageNumber="73" authorityYear="1887" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fuscinervis">
|
||
<emphasis id="98BCA3650CA129AFF8CC94B5000D7C69" bold="true">
|
||
<emphasis id="001CAAFAE576FAD63CE27EBCA9833C1C" bold="true" italics="true">Merodon fuscinervis</emphasis>
|
||
Von Röder, 1887: 73
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="C61B39908EB64611224C9E70C52F00BD">
|
||
<emphasis id="2DCE7AA003CBAF35936AD1259D687F02" bold="true">
|
||
<typeStatus id="AF54B2B624AC3389FA1C3BB1519C5117">Type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
<collectingCountry id="38EFCC5AB7B65744D7274114BB10A8B7" name="Greece">Greece</collectingCountry>
|
||
(“
|
||
<collectingRegion id="14112B805672BD38389B35D3C9D0E4DE" country="Greece" name="Kriti">Crete</collectingRegion>
|
||
”). Synonymy with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B7A6935A637D6C54674DAC2A3C42B011" baseAuthorityName="Rossi" baseAuthorityYear="1790" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pruni">
|
||
<emphasis id="FB55A21A818499919161C09A173B18B8" italics="true">Merodon pruni</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
was cited in
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="9CEC333B2FBE3FC1C5E4C818AEA20D5F" author="Sack P" firstAuthor="Sack" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft" pagination="427-462" refId="B63" refString="Sack P (1913) Die Gattung Merodon Meigen (Lampetia Meig. olim.). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 31: 427–462." title="Die Gattung Merodon Meigen (Lampetia Meig. olim.)." volume="31" year="1913">Sack (1913)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="4568116C0597FEE47FA933BA5E9BF38B" author="Peck LV" editor="Soós Á & Papp L" firstAuthor="Peck" journalOrPublisher="8 (Syrphidae - Conopidae). Elsevier Science Publishers & Akadémiai Kiadó, Amsterdam, Budapest" pagination="11-230" refId="B48" refString="Peck LV (1988) Family Syrphidae. In: Soós Á, Papp L (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol. 8 (Syrphidae — Conopidae). Elsevier Science Publishers & Akadémiai Kiadó, Amsterdam, Budapest, 11–230." title="Family Syrphidae." volumeTitle="Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol." year="1988">Peck (1988)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
and
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="72C5606582D64360B382D76BE8DE49A7" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
<typeStatus id="9A0A3DF18290E2DEFFAD616B906D7EEA">Type</typeStatus>
|
||
material presumably lost.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="F7FAB0615010A60D363B6A9CE159EC21">
|
||
<emphasis id="2F7C98D6B7901CB1A1A8B4ECC35446B7" bold="true">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
|
||
Sternum 3 with more or less equally distributed pilosity (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="875A49F242BC08D6F5612CF3588FBD49" captionStart="Figure 30" captionStartId="F30" captionText="Figure 30. S 3 of male, dorsolateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. B, D area with distinct long pile marked with arrow. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure30" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057103">30 E</figureCitation>
|
||
). In male calcar at metatrochanter distinct (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="E6B4D3B7A660950EE0BCA31FC774E6C3" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 C</figureCitation>
|
||
); metafemur medium broad (~ 4.5 × longer than wide), ventral margin slightly curved, and covered with sparse pilosity ventrally (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="4A768332D8ED041FC4BDF875ABDFFA7A" captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F25" captionText="Figure 25. Metaleg of male, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. pruni D M. pallidus E M. obscurus. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057098">25 C</figureCitation>
|
||
); sternum
|
||
<quantity id="3886C3BBCDA067F84DBCB236809D00CD" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.016" unit="in" value="4.0">4 in</quantity>
|
||
Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="329704980EDA069622C885EBC6761ACC" captionStart="Figure 28" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figure 28. S 4 of male, dorsal view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. cupreus C M. obscurus D M. pallidus E M. pruni. Abbreviations: al-anterior surstylar lobe, c-cercus, l-lingula, pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure28" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057101">28 E</figureCitation>
|
||
. Female with angular metatrochanter and sparse pile on metafemur ventrally (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="A97C060D447F647DDBD02C05F5F94103" captionStart="Figure 31" captionStartId="F31" captionText="Figure 31. Metaleg of female, lateral view A M. aequalis sp. nov. B M. obscurus C M. pallidus D M. pruni. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure31" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057104">31 D</figureCitation>
|
||
). Male genitalia in Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="8312CF301BB46C420682BEA3E9630D47" captionStart="Figure 29" captionStartId="F29" captionText="Figure 29. Male genitalia M. pruni A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Filamentous prolongation on ejaculatory sack marked with red arrow. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure29" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057102">29</figureCitation>
|
||
. Similar to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="9308243F80BD114EEB39C0796BF9037B" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" baseAuthorityName="Gil Tipo, Gil Collado" baseAuthorityYear="1929" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscurus" status="stat. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="9899991A7878A6D1F30818A182A2E6DC" italics="true">Merodon obscurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="CE93E6294947AD0B6BCF3D6C22D81D8E">stat. rev.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
from which differs by posterior surstylar lobe tapering to the tip (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="813D4FE4D62097631DD480C13C84C847" captionStart="Figure 29" captionStartId="F29" captionText="Figure 29. Male genitalia M. pruni A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Filamentous prolongation on ejaculatory sack marked with red arrow. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure29" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057102">29 A</figureCitation>
|
||
: pl) (rounded apically in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="73A374F85032A15CDD3478BC00AEBA24" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" baseAuthorityName="Gil Tipo, Gil Collado" baseAuthorityYear="1929" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscurus" status="stat. rev.">
|
||
<emphasis id="37FE1BC061BAC87874603684F0723631" italics="true">M. obscurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="D97FB8BCEAB6DBE6038988FD19DB5229">stat. rev.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
; Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation id="8C3F571882128445AEAA184A0BE5ED3E" captionStart="Figure 36" captionStartId="F36" captionText="Figure 36. Male genitalia M. obscurus A, B epandrium C hypandrium A, C lateral view B ventral view. Abbreviations: pl-posterior surstylar lobe. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure36" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057109">36 A</figureCitation>
|
||
: pl) and its distribution in the Eastern Mediterranean (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="EDBC40795B0D03062F1DBB43561DABFE" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" baseAuthorityName="Gil Tipo, Gil Collado" baseAuthorityYear="1929" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscurus" status="stat. rev.">
|
||
<emphasis id="D6F2E7CC0B2E122BA21806093A98ECC2" italics="true">M. obscurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="72928F4DD303C127CA0E940BF81FF71C">stat. rev.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
is restricted to North Africa).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="5CCEB5C1B0577D6B3165F3DB9CB1CA0C">
|
||
<emphasis id="2A31E5B1ED105E3104C7A065DD092B0E" bold="true">Distribution and biology.</emphasis>
|
||
It occurs throughout much of southern Europe (
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C3804800C6F938B0E4CE29B198C40191" name="Italy">Italy</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="86C527D6CC0F4A432BC53EDB812FE20D" name="Croatia">Croatia</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F1EFB764A3C8DFEC960BAC5307E48DF1" name="Greece">Greece</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="2575F3DEEC98E9C9E890F98D28A60942" name="Cyprus">Cyprus</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="A15091EEF8EFA4231BE24736D5359CBE" name="Romania">Romania</collectingCountry>
|
||
), eastwards to
|
||
<collectingCountry id="6E47AD32C0BFAD2EF47BFA9AF4488400" name="Ukraine">Ukraine</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="375BED575E521C44AF8A1C477E2D88C2" name="Turkey">Turkey</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="6B43120F8D2C6D3049D177DE031D7016" name="Armenia">Armenia</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="E359F0570C2EDF86184FC7B1A41DD52B" name="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="3D7C1C9D3CA809B20B82B0CBDF6E04DB" name="Iran">Iran</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="E0657CBFAE2BFF95DE06782EF8D9FBF8" name="Iraq">Iraq</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="99B0AD0B5E64D31A7A346887586AAFB0" name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F8229D9ACD6AEBD5B230BC37003F81CC" name="Palestine">State of Palestine</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="3D18EF1F78A07E48D44A80C71D09A9AD" name="Lebanon">Lebanon</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F4A0304F4505FAA5C2F630F182176447" name="Pakistan">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="30B3AE0193D1E2D94A580E2376043BD1" name="Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</collectingCountry>
|
||
, and
|
||
<collectingCountry id="353005223CA500D1952A2FC96456C1D3" name="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</collectingCountry>
|
||
.
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="2A2496B4E6E2CD70E6F7A79568852595" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" pagination="147-234" refId="B25" refString="Hurkmans W (1993) A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136 (2): 147–234." title="A monograph of Merodon (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 1." volume="136" year="1993">Hurkmans (1993)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
lists North Africa as part of the species range, but those specimens most likely belong to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F6B662A4936199D2D524479B332DE5D0" authorityName="Vujić & Radenković & Likov & Tubić & Popov & Gilasian & Djan & Milosavljević & Ačanski" authorityYear="2024" baseAuthorityName="Gil Tipo, Gil Collado" baseAuthorityYear="1929" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscurus">
|
||
<emphasis id="C78232843B92228B5DF9B1F8FA67CA72" italics="true">Merodon obscurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
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<bibRefCitation id="D990FE21D9072FA11CA649C19CA2111C" author="Speight MCD" firstAuthor="Speight" journalOrPublisher="Syrph the Net publications, Dublin" refId="B68" refString="Speight MCD (2020) Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Syrph the Net publications, Dublin, 314 pp." title="Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera)." year="2020">Speight (2020)</bibRefCitation>
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also mentions
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<collectingCountry id="22B5B5AC72C922947CC2854FFEB234F2" name="Austria">Austria</collectingCountry>
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and southern
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<collectingCountry id="5023ACB5B90DBC7E89D3ABFA69D2EE41" name="France">France</collectingCountry>
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(with the remark that it is most probably extinct), but species presence in those countries could not be confirmed (Fig.
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<figureCitation id="2687D8AF23D02B045958DF4C8652291D" captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Distribution map of Merodon pruni and M. obscurus." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1203.118842.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1057110">37</figureCitation>
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; Suppl. material
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<xref id="9A92AEC0A4692F5E1D4C6C5EDF5A55F6" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S2">2</xref>
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). The preferred environment of species
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<taxonomicName id="035ADE34A1AD9307A2ADDF32A4940249" baseAuthorityName="Rossi" baseAuthorityYear="1790" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Merodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pruni">
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<emphasis id="7D096893567856903CCA8ACA4E1AF070" italics="true">M. pruni</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is sparsely-vegetated open ground, dry / semi-arid grassland with scattered tall herbs, open areas in low-altitude
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<taxonomicName id="87A82E9EBA8F190E9246EA62C0B6C6F9" class="Pinopsida" family="Pinaceae" genus="Abies" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cephalonica">
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<emphasis id="E5B618C4283E28CA8279ED140BBBA6F4" italics="true">Abies cephalonica</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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forest on limestone, and
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<taxonomicName id="B6A963C4B67D5EEF992AF937749D6DBA" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fagaceae" genus="Castanea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fagales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="AB14FDF85DB16907BB41A00999D539D4" italics="true">Castanea</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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forest (
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<bibRefCitation id="E03B9A37E6F1A1FE56E1D66FB72AB66C" author="Speight" firstAuthor="Speight" journalOrPublisher="Syrph the Net publications, Dublin" refId="B68" refString="Speight MCD (2020) Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Syrph the Net publications, Dublin, 314 pp." title="Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera)." year="2020">Speight 2020</bibRefCitation>
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). At the northern edge of its range, i. e., in
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<collectingCountry id="3F6A454BA2DD8EF73DE4E01D75274E4E" name="Ukraine">Ukraine</collectingCountry>
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, the species occurs in steppe habitats.
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<bibRefCitation id="9DB3FD2E9F353303C585552E4FD83E70" author="Hurkmans W" firstAuthor="Hurkmans" issue="6" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Berichten" pagination="69-70" refId="B23" refString="Hurkmans W (1985) Territorial behaviour of two Merodon species (Diptera: Syrphidae). Entomologische Berichten 45 (6): 69–70." title="Territorial behaviour of two Merodon species (Diptera: Syrphidae)." volume="45" year="1985">Hurkmans (1985)</bibRefCitation>
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provides some information on male territorial behaviour; also stating that females fly fast and very close to the ground and are much less noticeable than the males. Both sexes fly silently (
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<bibRefCitation id="9BD039D69AE25B07A7FA5266DA04459F" author="Speight" firstAuthor="Speight" journalOrPublisher="Syrph the Net publications, Dublin" refId="B68" refString="Speight MCD (2020) Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Syrph the Net publications, Dublin, 314 pp." title="Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera)." year="2020">Speight 2020</bibRefCitation>
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). Flowers visited:
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<taxonomicName id="C968C168A975338B4C1DD138114172A7" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apiaceae" genus="Ferula" kingdom="Plantae" order="Apiales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="A518A7C75F1C7671D78ADF66AC03E467" italics="true">Ferula</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="0DC371EB73153AE94D47D9CF73393D89" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apiaceae" genus="Foeniculum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Apiales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="F2786C4B593008DA233FB4F7062D9417" italics="true">Foeniculum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. Flight period: May / October, with peaks in May and September. Developmental stages: not described (
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<bibRefCitation id="15C5F52AC75634E6147CC1947898E7A5" author="Speight" firstAuthor="Speight" journalOrPublisher="Syrph the Net publications, Dublin" refId="B68" refString="Speight MCD (2020) Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Syrph the Net publications, Dublin, 314 pp." title="Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera)." year="2020">Speight 2020</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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