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<taxonomicName id="4C1D7587FFBFFFD6FF60FB0D414394E9" ID-CoL="8F6J2" authority="Hull, 1950" authorityName="Hull" authorityYear="1950" box="[151,580,1190,1216]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Stipomorpha" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simillima">
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<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FF60FB0D42AE94E9" bold="true" box="[151,425,1190,1216]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Stipomorpha simillima</emphasis>
(Hull, 1950)
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<figureCitation id="13261281FFBFFFD6FF60FB62423594CB" box="[151,306,1225,1250]" captionStart="FIGURES 201 211. 201 203" captionStartId="68.[151,264,1937,1959]" captionTargetBox="[177,1412,290,1890]" captionTargetId="figure@68.[151,1436,265,1916]" captionTargetPageId="68" captionText="FIGURES 201 211. 201 203. Stipomorpha puerilis female (holotype). 201. habitus dorsal; 202. habitus lateral; 203. head frontal. 04 208. Stipomorpha simillima male (holotype). 204. habitus dorsal; 205. habitus lateral; 206. head frontal; 207. head lateral; 208. wing. 209 211. Stipomorpha spuria male (holotype). 209. habitus dorsal; 210. habitus lateral; 211. face frontal." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/284404/files/figure.png" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Figs 204208</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13261281FFBFFFD6FEC9FB62426C94CB" box="[318,363,1225,1250]" captionStart="FIGURES 246 251" captionStartId="77.[151,264,1879,1901]" captionTargetBox="[171,1396,220,1814]" captionTargetId="figure@77.[130,1438,193,1860]" captionTargetPageId="77" captionText="FIGURES 246 251. Stipomorpha, male genitalia latera. 246. S. simillima (holotype); 247. S. spuria (holotype); 248. S. tenuicauda (Bolivia, coll. RMNH); 249. S. trigoniformis (holotype); 250. S. wheeleri (paratype); 251. S. zophera (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/284409/files/figure.png" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">246</figureCitation>
.
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<taxonomicName id="4C1D7587FFBFFFD6FF60FABA4117950E" authority="Hull, 1950: 611" authorityName="Hull" authorityPageNumber="611" authorityYear="1950" box="[151,528,1297,1319]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Microdon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simillimus">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FF60FABA426F950E" box="[151,360,1297,1319]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Microdon simillimus</emphasis>
Hull, 1950: 611
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.
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Studied
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specimens.
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.
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.
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBFFFD6FD11FAFF40249544" box="[742,803,1364,1389]" name="Malta" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Male</collectingCountry>
. Label 1 (small round, red-bordered): &quot;
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&quot;; label 2:&quot;Dark forest&quot;; label 3: &quot;A in cop. with B&quot;; label 4: &quot;British
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:
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R., Moraballi Creek.
<date id="FFA328C4FFBFFFD6FAE8FAD3469F95B9" box="[1311,1432,1400,1424]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" value="1929-10-17">17.X.1929</date>
. Oxf. Univ. Expedn. B.M. 1929-485.&quot;; label 5 (red): &quot;
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<taxonomicName id="4C1D7587FFBFFFD6FCA0FA374775959C" authority="Hull" authorityName="Hull" box="[855,1138,1436,1461]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Microdon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simillima">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FCA0FA374733959C" box="[855,1076,1436,1461]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Microdon simillima</emphasis>
Hull
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&quot;. Coll. BMNH.
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.
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.
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBFFFD6FE02FA14413595F1" box="[501,562,1471,1496]" name="Malta" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Male</collectingCountry>
. Label 1 (small, round, yellow-bordered): &quot;
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBFFFD6FBECFA6B478195F1" box="[1051,1158,1472,1496]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
&quot;; label 2: &quot;Dark forest.&quot;; label 3: &quot;British
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:
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R., Moraballi Creek.
<date id="FFA328C4FFBFFFD6FCE9FA4F409095D5" box="[798,919,1508,1532]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" value="1929-10-17">17.X.1929</date>
. Oxf. Univ. Expedn. B.M. 1929-485.&quot;; label 4 (yellow): &quot;
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBFFFD6FEFAF9A342759609" box="[269,370,1544,1568]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
<taxonomicName id="4C1D7587FFBFFFD6FE8EF9AC41949609" authority="Hull" authorityName="Hull" box="[377,659,1543,1568]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Microdon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simillima">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FE8EF9AC41529609" box="[377,597,1543,1568]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Microdon simillima</emphasis>
Hull
</taxonomicName>
&quot;. Coll. BMNH.
</paragraph>
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<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBFFFD6FF30F9874203966C" box="[199,260,1580,1605]" name="Malta" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Male</collectingCountry>
. Label 1: &quot;
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBFFFD6FE77F987412A966C" box="[384,557,1580,1605]" name="Guyana" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">British Guiana</collectingCountry>
: /
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBFFFD6FDBDF98741BA966C" box="[586,701,1580,1605]" name="Guyana" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Essequibo</collectingCountry>
R., / Moraballi Creek /
<date id="FFA328C4FFBFFFD6FC24F9874749966C" box="[979,1102,1580,1605]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" value="1929-09-25">25.ix.1929</date>
. / Oxf. Univ. Expedn. / B.M. 1929-485.&quot;; label 2 (yellow): &quot;
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBFFFD6FE1BF9FB41569641" box="[492,593,1616,1640]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
/
<taxonomicName id="4C1D7587FFBFFFD6FD91F9E441D39641" box="[614,724,1615,1640]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Microdon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Microdon</taxonomicName>
/
<taxonomicName id="4C1D7587FFBFFFD6FD1CF9E440529641" box="[747,853,1615,1640]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Microdon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simillima">simillima</taxonomicName>
/ Hull&quot;. Coll. CNC.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FF30F9DF414F96A4" bold="true" box="[199,584,1652,1677]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Additionally studied specimens.</emphasis>
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:
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, Belém, Pará,
<date id="FFA328C4FFBFFFD6FC32F9DF473E96A4" box="[965,1081,1652,1677]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" value="1967-05-17">17.V.1967</date>
, leg.
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. Sedman, coll. USNM; FRENCH
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:
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, Crique Sapokal Degrad Laurens,
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.
</specimenCount>
, N 3°16' / W 52°41',,
<date id="FFA328C4FFBFFFD6FB22F93C46909699" box="[1237,1431,1687,1712]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" value="2000-08-26" valueMax="2000-09-02" valueMin="2000-08-26">26.viii2.ix.2000</date>
, malaise trap, leg. A.E.I.
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, coll. J.T. Smit;
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:
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, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata, Sachavacayoc centre, N 12°51'20.1&quot; / W 69°22'20.1&quot;,
<date id="FFA328C4FFBFFFD6FDA4F94B41E096D1" box="[595,743,1760,1784]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" value="2010-10-09" valueMax="2010-10-14" valueMin="2010-10-09">914.X.2010</date>
, malaise trap, leg. &amp; coll. J.T. Smit;
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, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata, Sachavacayoc centre, N 12°51'46.4&quot; / W 69°21'46.6&quot;,
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, malaise trap, leg. &amp; coll. J.T. Smit.
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Redescription (based on
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)
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<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FF30F8C4425497A1" bold="true" box="[199,339,1903,1928]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Adult male.</emphasis>
Body size:
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.
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<emphasis id="B969D216FFBFFFD6FF30F83F42099784" bold="true" box="[199,270,1940,1965]" pageId="66" pageNumber="67">Head.</emphasis>
Face occupying 1/4 of head width in frontal view; shining yellow with a pale brown median stripe from oral margin to just below antennae, gradually narrowing upward; face with white pilosity, a little longer around oral margin, except bare on median stripe. Gena blackish. Occiput black; black pilose dorsally, getting white laterally and ventrally. Oral cavity with hardly produced lateral margins. Frons and lunula black and short black pilose, except for bare triangular part posterior to lunula. Vertex black; black pilose. Eye very sparsely and short pilose, with pili about as long as ommati diameter, appearing bare under low magnification. Antennal fossa about as wide as high. Antenna blackish brown, except scape yellow on interior sides; scape and pedicel dark pilose; antennal ratio 4:1:3.5; basoflagellomere parallel-sided with narrowly rounded apex, with sensory pit located at 3/4 from base, within a vague groove that ranges from just before 1/2 to just after the pit; arista slender, about 2/3 of length of basoflagellomere, very shortly pilose, appearing bare under low magnification.
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<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FF30FE3F42219184" bold="true" box="[199,294,404,429]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Thorax.</emphasis>
Black, more brownish on pleurae. Postpronotum, scutum, postalar callus and scutellum short black pilose, except a few pale pile on scutellum (and possibly along transverse suture of scutum, but not well visible in
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBEFFD7FF60FE7643C091DC" box="[151,199,477,501]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">type</typeStatus>
specimen). Scutellum semicircular, without calcars. Anepisternum more or less flat, pilose anterodorsally. Anepimeron pilose posterodorsally. Katepisternum and katepimeron bare. Calypter grey, halter yellowish.
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<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FD8F42C192AD" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">
Wing: hyaline, with faint yellowish cloud on and posterior to pterostigma and with faint dark cloud between apex of costal cell and vena
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, and microtrichose except bare on basal 3/4 of cell br, basal 1/2 of cell bm, anterobasal 1/4 of cell cup.
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<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FD3B42E69311" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Legs: brownish black, except anterior four tarsi yellow with first tarsomere more brownish. Legs black pilose, except anterior four tibiae pale pilose and hind-tibia pale pilose on basal 1/3; pile on hind-tibia a little longer than half the width of the tibia. First tarsomere of hind-tarsus as long as 1/3 of length of hind-tibia, a little wider than apex of tibia, twice as long as wide (dorsal view). Front-coxae and trochanters pale pilose; mid- and hind-coxae and -trochanters black pilose.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FCEF42999471" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FF30FCEF42449374" bold="true" box="[199,323,836,861]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Abdomen.</emphasis>
Blackish (but see diagnosis). Second segment wider than thorax, widest point at half the lentgh; third and fourth tergites strongly narrowing. Tergite 1 black pilose laterally; with anterolateral 'ridges'; with anteromedian smooth, concave area. Tergite 2 black pilose laterally, pale pilose dorsally. Tergite 3 black pilose. Tergite 4 black pilose, lateral margins with pale pilosity, which is posteriorly connected with two submedial lines of pale pile on posterior half of the tergite. Sternite 1 narrow and bare, separated from sternite 2 by a membrane of twice the width of sternite 1. Sternite 2 bare, laterally twice as wide as medially, separated from sternite 3 by a membrane of 1.5 times the median width of sternite 2. Sternite 3 and 4 pilose, not separated by membrane. Genitalia as in fig. 246.
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<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FBCF40259454" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" box="[199,802,1124,1149]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FF30FBCF42229454" bold="true" box="[199,293,1124,1149]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Female.</emphasis>
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male, except for usual sexual differences.
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<subSubSection id="C3075D8FFFBEFFD7FF30FB2C426F95E9" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FB2C42429519" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FF30FB2C42469489" bold="true" box="[199,321,1159,1184]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
From other
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FE28FB2C41689489" box="[479,623,1159,1184]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Stipomorpha</emphasis>
-species with a black thorax,
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<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FC23FB2347589489" box="[980,1119,1159,1184]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">S. simillima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be recognized by the following characters: face largely yellow with narrow median brown stripe, basoflagellomere about as long as or slightly shorter than the scape, anepisternum only pilose anterodorsally, katepisternum bare, structure of male genitalia. The colouration of the abdomen appears to be quite variable, from blackish in the
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBEFFD7FB6EFB5F47FC9524" box="[1177,1275,1268,1293]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
to pale brown in the
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBEFFD7FF2AFAB342469519" box="[221,321,1304,1328]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
.
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<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FA97426F95E9" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FF30FA974216957C" bold="true" box="[199,273,1340,1365]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Notes.</emphasis>
The fourth label on the
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reads &quot;A in cop. with B&quot;. Apparently the male
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBEFFD7FB3CFA97462A957C" box="[1227,1325,1340,1365]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
has been collected in copula with a female that has later been labelled as specimen B. The whereabouts of this female are unknown. In the original description Hull (1950) only mentions two male
<typeStatus id="54A6B0A6FFBEFFD7FC20FA2E474295B4" box="[983,1093,1413,1437]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
, one of which is present in the BMNH collection.
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</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8BA20E04FFBEFFD7FF30FA6740D495CD" blockId="67.[151,1437,151,1509]" box="[199,979,1484,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">
<emphasis id="B969D216FFBEFFD7FF30FA67426795CC" bold="true" box="[199,352,1484,1509]" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known from
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBEFFD7FE09FA67415F95CD" box="[510,600,1484,1508]" name="Guyana" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Guyana</collectingCountry>
, French
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBEFFD7FD4FFA67401595CD" box="[696,786,1484,1508]" name="Guyana" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Guyana</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBEFFD7FCEAFA67406695CC" box="[797,865,1484,1509]" name="Brazil" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Brazil</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F30A4E94FFBEFFD7FC6FFA6640C895CD" box="[920,975,1485,1508]" name="Peru" pageId="67" pageNumber="68">Peru</collectingCountry>
.
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