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Species with unique combination of morphological characters in 
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) and wing blackish in male (Fig. 
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). Medium sized (8-10 mm), medium long pilose species, with dark brown reflection; antennae reddish-yellow, basoflagellomere with concave dorsal margin (Figs 
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, 
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); tarsus of proleg expanded and modified (Fig. 
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), proleg and mesoleg with reddish-yellow apex of femora, and tibiae and tarsi partly reddish-yellow; metafemur mostly black, metatibia dark medially and tarsus of metaleg dark dorsally, the rest is reddish-yellow (Figs 
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, 
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); body pile whitish, yellow to gray. Male: metafemur about 4 times longer than wide, covered with long pilosity (Fig. 
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); basotarsomere of metatarsus ventrally with setae (Fig. 
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); sternum 4 with triangular posterior margin (Fig. 
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); male genitalia: anterior surstyle lobe quadratic (Fig. 
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: al), posterior surstyle lobe bilobate (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39B</figureCitation>
: marked with red arrows), oval, with broadly rounded apex (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39A</figureCitation>
: pl); lingula medium size (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39C</figureCitation>
: l).
</paragraph>
<caption doi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" start="Figure 37" startId="F37">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Figure 37.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon nigroalatus</emphasis>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Vujić">Vujic</normalizedToken>
, Likov &amp; 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Radenković">Radenkovic</normalizedToken>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">sp. nov.</emphasis>
, male. 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">A</emphasis>
body, dorsal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">B</emphasis>
head, frontal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">C</emphasis>
wing, dorsal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">D</emphasis>
basoflagellomere, lateral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">E</emphasis>
protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">F</emphasis>
sterna, ventral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">G</emphasis>
metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">H</emphasis>
metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">I</emphasis>
metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="201" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
Male. 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Head</emphasis>
</emphasis>
: Antenna reddish-yellow; basoflagellomere (Fig. 
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) about 2 times as long as wide, about 2.5 times as long as pedicel, concave dorsally, with rounded apical margin; fossette dorsolateral (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37D</figureCitation>
); arista reddish-brown and thickened at basal third; face and frons black with gray microtrichia, face covered with dense whitish pile, frons with yellowish pile; oral margin black, with sparse microtrichia; lunule yellowish, bare; eye contiguity about 10-12 facets long; vertex isosceles, shiny black, anterior corner pollinose; vertex with long, whitish-gray pile, or mixed with a few black pile on ocellar triangle; ocellar triangle isosceles; occiput with white-gray pile, ventrally covered with dense gray microtrichia; eyes covered with dense whitish-gray pile (Fig. 
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); vertical triangle: eye contiguity: frons = 3: 1: 2.5. - 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Thorax</emphasis>
: Scutum and scutellum black with dark brown lustre, covered with dense, erect pale yellow pile; scutum without distinct pollinose vittae; anterior half of scutum from dull to shiny; posterodorsal part of anterior anepisternum, posterior anepisternum (except anteroventral angle), anterior anepimeron, dorsomedial anepimeron, and posterodorsal and anteroventral parts of katepisternum with long, dense, pale yellow to gray pile; wings black to dark, mostly covered with microtrichia; wing veins black; calypter pale yellow; halter yellow; tarsus of proleg modified, slightly expanded (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37E</figureCitation>
); proleg and mesoleg with reddish apex of femora, and tibiae and tarsi partly reddish-yellow; metafemur mostly black, metatibia dark medially and tarsus of metaleg dark dorsally, remaining tarsi reddish-yellow (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37E-I</figureCitation>
); pile on legs pale yellow; metafemur moderately broad, about 4 times longer than wide, with long pile on ventral surface, about 2/3 of width of metafemur, and as long as dense pile on apicodorsal surface (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37G</figureCitation>
); metatibia apicomedially covered with a few long yellowish pile (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37H</figureCitation>
); basotarsomere of metatarsus more than 2 times longer than second tarsomere (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37I</figureCitation>
). - 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Abdomen</emphasis>
: Broad, about 1.3 times longer than mesonotum; terga 2-4 with large, lateral reddish-yellow markings (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37A</figureCitation>
); terga 2-4 each with pair of poorly visible white, pollinose fasciae; pile on terga gray-whitish except black pilosity on medial part of terga 3-4; sterna yellowish, covered with whitish pile; sternum 4 with median V-shaped incision on posterior margin (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 37" captionStartId="F37" captionText="Figure 37. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C wing, dorsal view; D basoflagellomere, lateral view; E protibia and protarsus, dorsal view; F sterna, ventral view; G metafemur and metatibia, lateral view; H metatibia and metatarsus, dorso-lateral view; I metatarsus, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A-C, E-H), 0.25 mm (D), 0.5 mm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure37" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807929" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">37F</figureCitation>
). - 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Male genitalia</emphasis>
: Anterior surstyle lobe quadratic, about 1.5 times longer than wide, covered with dense short pile (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39A</figureCitation>
: al); posterior surstyle lobe divided in two lobes (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39B</figureCitation>
: marked with red arrows) connected with fine membrane (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39B</figureCitation>
: d), oval, with broadly rounded apex (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39A</figureCitation>
: pl); hypandrium sickle-shaped, without lateral projections; lingula narrow and of medium length (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 39" captionStartId="F39" captionText="Figure 39. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., male genitalia. A epandrium, lateral view; B posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; C hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">39C</figureCitation>
: l). - 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Female.</emphasis>
Similar to male except for normal sexual dimorphism and following characteristics: basoflagellomere about 1.7 times longer than wide (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., female. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C basoflagellomere, lateral view; D metaleg, lateral view; E sterna, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, D, E), 0.25 mm (C)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807930" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">38C</figureCitation>
); frons with pollinose vittae along eye margins (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., female. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C basoflagellomere, lateral view; D metaleg, lateral view; E sterna, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, D, E), 0.25 mm (C)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807930" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">38B</figureCitation>
); frons covered with gray-yellow pile mixed with black ones on ocellar triangle; scutum with four distinct pollinose vittae (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., female. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C basoflagellomere, lateral view; D metaleg, lateral view; E sterna, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, D, E), 0.25 mm (C)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807930" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">38A</figureCitation>
); reddish-yellow markings on abdomen smaller and limited to terga 2 and 3 (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., female. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C basoflagellomere, lateral view; D metaleg, lateral view; E sterna, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, D, E), 0.25 mm (C)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807930" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">38A</figureCitation>
); medial part of terga 2-4 with short adpressed black pile; pollinose fasciae on terga 2-4 distinct; sterna 4-5 black (Fig. 
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 38" captionStartId="F38" captionText="Figure 38. Merodon nigroalatus Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic sp. nov., female. A body, dorsal view; B head, frontal view; C basoflagellomere, lateral view; D metaleg, lateral view; E sterna, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, D, E), 0.25 mm (C)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807930" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">38E</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<caption doi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure38" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807930" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" start="Figure 38" startId="F38">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Figure 38.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Merodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Merodon nigroalatus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigroalatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon nigroalatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Vujić">Vujic</normalizedToken>
, Likov &amp; 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Radenković">Radenkovic</normalizedToken>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">sp. nov.</emphasis>
, female. 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">A</emphasis>
body, dorsal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">B</emphasis>
head, frontal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">C</emphasis>
basoflagellomere, lateral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">D</emphasis>
metaleg, lateral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">E</emphasis>
sterna, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, D, E), 0.25 mm (C).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="201" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
The name &quot; 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon nigroalatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
&quot;, as arbitrary combination, is derived from Latin adjectives 
<normalizedToken originalValue="“niger”">&quot;niger&quot;</normalizedToken>
meaning black and 
<normalizedToken originalValue="“alatus”">&quot;alatus&quot;</normalizedToken>
meaning winged. This describes the distinctive dark wing of the species.
</paragraph>
<caption doi="10.3897/asp.81.e93570.figure39" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/807931" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" start="Figure 39" startId="F39">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Figure 39.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Vujic, Likov &amp; Radenkovic" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Merodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Merodon nigroalatus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigroalatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon nigroalatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Vujić">Vujic</normalizedToken>
, Likov &amp; 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Radenković">Radenkovic</normalizedToken>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">sp. nov.</emphasis>
, male genitalia. 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">A</emphasis>
epandrium, lateral view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">B</emphasis>
posterior surstyle lobe, dorsal view; 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">C</emphasis>
hypandrium, lateral view. Abbreviations: al - anterior surstyle lobe, c - cercus, d - membrane connecting two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe, l - lingula, pl - posterior surstyle lobe. Two lobes of posterior surstyle lobe marked with arrows. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="201" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Distribution and ecological data.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon nigroalatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, Likov &amp; 
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">sp. nov.</emphasis>
has only been recorded in northern Pakistan so far (Fig. 
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). Its only known locality belongs to the Baluchistan xeric woodlands (
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) and is situated in the north-east of this ecoregion, characterized by 
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accompanied by 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Dodonaea viscosa</emphasis>
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. These xerophytic forests support 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Tamarix</emphasis>
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spp., 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Savadora oleoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Ziziphus mauritiana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Acacia modesta</emphasis>
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, and bulbous plants such as 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Iris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Tulipa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Allium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
spp. are found on the slopes (
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). The collection site is located between subtropical and temperate zones in dry deciduous forests. The 
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arid subtropical habitat is characterized by mountainous terrain with elevations below 1000 m with high precipitation rates. Type material was collected from citrus (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Citrus sinensis</emphasis>
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) orchard with wheat (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Triticum aestivum</emphasis>
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) as intercropped. On the basis of our data the flight period is late March.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="201" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="201">
Mimics bees of the genus 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Sphecodes</emphasis>
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Latreille (
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: 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomson" authorityYear="1869" class="Insecta" family="Halictidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Halictidae</taxonomicName>
). This species has a unique position inside the genus based on very distinct morphological characters. Based on molecular marker and structure of the male genitalia it is related to the 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sack" authorityYear="1913" class="Insecta" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Merodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Merodon tarsatus" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="201" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tarsatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon tarsatus</emphasis>
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group, but because of absence of the main diagnostic characters of the group, such as structure of sternum 4 and basotarsomere of metaleg, it should be kept as unplaced species inside the 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="201">Merodon avidus-nigritarsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
lineage.
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