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<figureCitation id="C90A87761DC588E344AABBC0FCF55687" captionStart="Figures 7074" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figures 70 - 74. Mesembrius spp., head, frontal view 70 M. capensis (Macquart) (♀) 71 M. cyanipennis (Bezzi) (♀) 72 M. chapini Curran (♀) 73 M. maculifer Hull (♀) 74 M. morio (Bezzi) (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figures70-74" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557489" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 74</figureCitation>
<figureCitation id="F3824DAD41C53AF937A7977E5B67A6C5" captionStart="Figures 113118" captionStartId="F36" captionText="Figures 113 - 118. Mesembrius spp., abdomen, dorsal view 113 M. cyanipennis (Bezzi) (♀) 114 M. maculifer Hull (♀) 115 M. madagascariensis Keiser (♀) 116 M. minor (Bezzi) (♀) 117 M. morio (Bezzi) (♀) 118 M. platytarsis Curran syn. nov. (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figures113-118" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557497" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 117</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName id="970D0C62E04B5E8FCCEEAE6542CBC34C" authorityName="Bezzi" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Helophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Helophilus (Mesembrius) morio" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="morio" subGenus="Mesembrius">Helophilus (Mesembrius) morio</taxonomicName>
Bezzi, 1915: 98.
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<taxonomicName id="1CE17E5806D009047AA395C8D172E2AD" baseAuthorityName="Bezzi" baseAuthorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Mesembrius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mesembrius morio" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="morio">Mesembrius morio</taxonomicName>
-
<bibRefCitation id="67A385FFC2A43C885411D9698ECF5E00" author="Smith, KGV" editor="Crosskey, RW" journalOrPublisher="British Museum (Natural History), London" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="488 - 510" refId="B49" refString="Smith, KGV, Vockeroth, JR, 1980. 38. Family Syrphidae. In: Crosskey, RW, Ed., Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: 488 - 510" title="38. Family Syrphidae." volumeTitle="Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region." year="1980">Smith and Vockeroth (1980)</bibRefCitation>
: 504.
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females are entirely black and cannot be confused with any other
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species. The male is unknown.
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Bezzi:
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//1904-117.&quot; &quot;
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n.sp.//Type
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&quot;; &quot; NHMUK 013428952&quot; [NHMUK].
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:
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;
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,
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; date unknown;
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leg.; NHMUK
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.
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;
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;
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;
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J.
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leg.; KBIN
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.
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;
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;
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leg.; NHMUK
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.
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<location id="3FC4798B428D4A4D0354667998941F6E" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:8B3481DFE2735475A417BB3469539B9A:3FC4798B428D4A4D0354667998941F6E" country="Tanzania" municipality="Neguelo" name="Usambara Mountains">Usambara Mountains</location>
; date unknown;
<collectorName id="B660D6D4F4C0B88BFB245FF594AA03DF">H. Rolle</collectorName>
leg.; NHMUK
</materialsCitation>
.
<materialsCitation id="7B31DF4074764AFB91259AFC8669B9DF" collectingDate="1972-06-17" collectorName="H. Falke" country="Uganda" location="Entebbe" specimenCount="2" specimenCount-female="2">
<collectingCountry id="53C02D40BEDFB61BF3CC1893CCD947D4" name="Uganda">Uganda</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount id="4E6BF655CD9365F96FCEFBE8CCAEDC46" type="female">2♀♀</specimenCount>
;
<location id="3A7711C3D8F1CD51DF6DA6B21E735533" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:8B3481DFE2735475A417BB3469539B9A:3A7711C3D8F1CD51DF6DA6B21E735533" country="Uganda" name="Entebbe">Entebbe</location>
;
<collectingDate id="DEB0451522C7EBA4FA38631AB2084563" value="1972-06-17">17 Jun 1972</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName id="6FE6AEB8A7741C6A66226C3482A209FB">H. Falke</collectorName>
leg.; CNC
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F60FB8DE327DDE9057BB5A24BB03339F" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
<paragraph id="DB5D9A5061690EAB18A141AEEC6FB5D7" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Re-description female</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A98D7D8A86C5F9A5725F1DBF69426DAE" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="CC10CD1F401CAB1EFF8F1209AB411DAC" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
(Fig.
<figureCitation id="7BCCD092D6E8553F3ED3052D9F45B33F" captionStart="Figures 35, 36" captionStartId="F18" captionText="Figures 35, 36. Mesembrius spp., habitus, lateral view 35 M. minor (Bezzi) (♀) 36 M. morio (Bezzi) (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figures35-36" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557479" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">36</figureCitation>
).
</emphasis>
Body length: 12.7-13.5 mm. Wing length: 11.6-12.5 mm.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="88D3BEE54939CE3A410417F61DD447EF" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="7E9634B1383D7CB394F5A7D768E14627" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Head</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation id="99B100AD8E02AE52DA28F041FBBA809D" captionStart="Figures 7074" captionStartId="F28" captionText="Figures 70 - 74. Mesembrius spp., head, frontal view 70 M. capensis (Macquart) (♀) 71 M. cyanipennis (Bezzi) (♀) 72 M. chapini Curran (♀) 73 M. maculifer Hull (♀) 74 M. morio (Bezzi) (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figures70-74" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557489" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">74</figureCitation>
). Eyes bare; dichoptic. Face black; black and white pilose; white pollinose. Frons black; black pilose; lower half white pollinose. Vertex black; black pilose; grey pollinose. Distance between lateral ocellus and eye margin approx. the width of ocellus. Occiput black; yellow and black pilose dorsally, yellow pilose more ventrally; grey pollinose. Frontal prominence shiny brown-black; black pilose. Antenna black; arista reddish-brown.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="820DF995A544476498429F4D3E06D1D9" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="6E883FA7CD32431B35FAF8FB97F6FB5C" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thorax.</emphasis>
Scutum and scutellum black; without vitta; short white and black pilose.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C80394C92321BBF671224E2D33ECBC73" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="211715DE1BE496BAB9FD3F48D6F2B1D2" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Legs.</emphasis>
Dark reddish-brown to black; short black and white pilose.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F9A1B1C24E79507423EDF3B28BCB90A7" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="3FED9BA405376229F91B37C3EEB08A88" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Wing</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation id="70063F76FBE1FFBD79E5AE4420B449A9" captionStart="Figures 135138" captionStartId="F41" captionText="Figures 135 - 138. Mesembrius spp., right wing 135 M. maculifer Hull (♀) 136 M. madagascariensis Keiser (♂) 137 M. minor (Bezzi) (♂) 138 M. morio (Bezzi) (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figures135-138" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557502" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">138</figureCitation>
). Entire wing uniformly, very densely microtrichose; dark brown in anterior half.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6F6C4749755FDA676FA610E420CF3770" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="8CC00C416EE1D26338C0C8926D601DFE" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Abdomen</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation id="0CCA96D87F1B650F073FEFF7211BDD56" captionStart="Figures 113118" captionStartId="F36" captionText="Figures 113 - 118. Mesembrius spp., abdomen, dorsal view 113 M. cyanipennis (Bezzi) (♀) 114 M. maculifer Hull (♀) 115 M. madagascariensis Keiser (♀) 116 M. minor (Bezzi) (♀) 117 M. morio (Bezzi) (♀) 118 M. platytarsis Curran syn. nov. (♀)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figures113-118" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557497" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">117</figureCitation>
). Entirely black; short yellow-white and black pilose.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="9ECB31EA10F4BDA35A29AC4A5580BAE5" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="E63D7FFCFF7FE43C447320A36409B296" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Male.</emphasis>
Unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F83E3840A01A9CFBEEDFD0937343E24D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="AF691B4F0AFB3D3F00B057466EDBD579" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CE2457F95942ACEF7D7B229B231BA95E" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="D3CE01A5453E0B1CD3ADCB31D29EF302" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="comments">
<paragraph id="E51FE0533BF18C7BFE3C7914F45D7E22" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2E2D0B9EFF2F95C8C61242199C9BDBA5" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Previously only known from the holo- and paratype.
<bibRefCitation id="B2DFD35ACFDEA725622954132F543D5D" author="Curran, CH" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="33 - 89" publicationUrl="http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1640?show=full" refId="B10" refString="Curran, CH, 1927. Diptera of the American Museum Congo Expedition. Part I. - Bibionidae, Bombyliidae, Dolichopodidae, Syrphidae, Trypaneidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 57: 33 - 89, http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1640?show=full" title="Diptera of the American Museum Congo Expedition. Part I. - Bibionidae, Bombyliidae, Dolichopodidae, Syrphidae, Trypaneidae." url="http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1640?show=full" volume="57" year="1927">Curran (1927)</bibRefCitation>
considers
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<emphasis id="98CC719DB83368E1EF610A615F2A4C26" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. morio</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be a dark morphotype of
<taxonomicName id="2B3C90F30186ADE4C3A241A05FCFBE93" lsidName="M. cyanipennis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="cyanipennis">
<emphasis id="E9C4FEEDA6657D8B795C8802B0FFAD68" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. cyanipennis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. As the male of
<taxonomicName id="FFB23B1EE4E639EC417B2677AD3FCFE3" lsidName="M. morio" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="morio">
<emphasis id="6AB3356390E5F3E40CA8EB404CF035FB" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. morio</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is unknown, we could not compare the male genitalia. However, since the differentiation between the two species with DNA barcodes (
<emphasis id="764C20A779DD0B2CB6F0D36372784F22" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">p</emphasis>
-distance: 6.4%) is of the same magnitude as the differentiation between other closely related species (range
<emphasis id="4075E2E6B7A7EFA732031ED572D2412F" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">p</emphasis>
-distances: 4.3-14.7%; see Discussion and Fig.
<figureCitation id="EAB75F628AE4534207F222B5BA316734" captionStart="Figure 229" captionStartId="F60" captionText="Figure 229. Neighbour-Joining tree (K 2 P distances) of 236 DNA barcodes of 18 Afrotropical Mesembrius species. Eristalis tenax was used as outgroup. (Part 1)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1046.57052.figure229" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/557520" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">229</figureCitation>
), we consider
<taxonomicName id="AE39045AA3A11DC30ADFB78879F6B382" lsidName="M. morio" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="morio">
<emphasis id="3A462C58581FB0392593782838F08713" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. morio</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="BB9501111EB073A0CD474B92D593DF24" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. cyanipennis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as two different morphospecies.
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