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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4D4921FF5B6639520FF9D1" box="[151,335,1558,1582]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Cerioides pulchra</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4D4921FF5B667352D8F989" bold="true" box="[151,408,1628,1654]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Examined specimens.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4D4921FF0B66AF5221F965" bold="true" box="[199,353,1664,1690]" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species was previously recorded for
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by
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Abu-Zoherah
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. (1993)
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. It was described from
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and also recorded from the Afrotropical Regions:
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,
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(
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) and
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(
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).
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Genus
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Latreille
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There are approximately 100 species of
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worldwide most of these found in the Palaearctic region (
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).
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are thermophilous but most species prefer xerothermic conditions (
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van
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2004
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). Vujić
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(2008) established two new subgenera within the genus
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. These are
<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4D4921FC3E67EB57E2F821" box="[1010,1186,1988,2014]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Serratoparagus</emphasis>
Vujić &amp; Radenkovićé and
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FF0060B85219FF4E" box="[204,345,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Afroparagus</emphasis>
Vujić
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&amp; Radenkovićé. With the addition of existing subgenera
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FB9560B857F8FF4F" box="[1113,1208,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Paragus</emphasis>
Latreille
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and
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FAAA60B8527FFF2A" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Pandasyopthalmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Stuckenberg, therefore
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FD87609451EAFF2B" box="[587,682,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Paragus</emphasis>
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consists of four subgenera. These divisions are based on molecular data and the data set of morphological characters including some features of the male terminalia not previously used in the systematics of the
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. Most species of
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FD11612C507CFEE3" box="[733,828,259,284]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Paragus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are very variable, sometimes difficult to identify and easily confused with one another, and characters of the genitalia are essential for species identification. The species of the subgenus
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FE9D61645166FE9A" box="[337,550,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Pandasyopthalmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are difficult to identify, differing mainly in the structure of the male genitalia.
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was the first to describe the intraspecific variability in the structure of the male genitalia in some species of the subgenus
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FE2961BC51FAFE52" box="[485,698,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Pandasyopthalmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The females of most of these species can be identified only based on the characters of the accompanying males (
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, b). The larvae of all the species of
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FAD861985633FE2F" box="[1300,1395,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Paragus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are known to be predators of aphids and can be used in biological control of plant pests (
<bibRefCitation id="21014B792B4C4920FB8061F457FEFE0A" author="Coe, R. L." box="[1100,1214,474,501]" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" refId="ref34413" refString="Coe, R. L. (1953) Diptera Syrphidae. Handbooks for the identification of British insects. 10 (1). Royal Entomological Society of London, London, 98 pp." type="book" year="1953">Coe 1953</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="77E4EA9A2B4C4920FB1D61F45670FE0B" box="[1233,1328,475,500]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Paragus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
normally fly very close to the ground (
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).
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