Eosphaerophoria punctata Claussen & Weipert, 2003

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Eosphaerophoria punctata Claussen & Weipert, 2003

Figs 23, 25, 26, 27, 30.

Eosphaerophoria punctata Claussen & Weipert, 2003: 352 . Type locality: Nepal, Annapurna region, Valley of Marsyangdi, 47 km northeast of Pokhara. Holotype 1♀ [Institut für Biologische Studien, J. Weipert Colln., Plaue, Germany]. Claussen & Weipert, 2003: 355, Figs 32, 33, 35, 36, 37 (abdomen, wing, face profile, frontal and dorsal head view).

Type locality. NEPAL: Gandaki, Kaski. Annapurna region, Valley of Marsyangdi, 47 km northeast of Pokhara. 28°17'10.16"N 84°01'21.27"E.

Non-examined material. Holotype: Nepal, Annapurna region , Valley of Marsyangdi, 47 km northeast of Pokhara. 1700m., 21.IX.1992, leg. J. Weipert [1♀, Institut für Biologische Studien, J. Weipert Colln., Plaue, Germany].

Distribution: Nepal.

Differential diagnosis. Species with notopleuron not produced posterolaterally, very distinctive with a medial yellow macula on 2nd abdominal tergum. Similar to E. symmetrica , but differs from this species by having a medial black vitta on frons (Figs 26, 27), and the 1st abdominal tergum almost entirely yellow (Fig. 30). In the original description, Claussen and Weipert (2003) gave a clear diagnosis to separate E. punctata from the then known species as follows: “similar to E. dentiscutellata ( Keiser, 1958) , with the following differences: a) scutellum without tooth on apical margin; b) basitarsus of fore leg pale, not darker than following tarsal segments; c) apex of f2 and base of t2 narrowly black; d) tarsomeres of p2 narrowly black basally; e) tergite 1 pale yellow, apical margin narrowly black; f) tergite 2 with yellow median macula (Fig. 30); g) tergite 5 with a complete subbasal yellow band; h) notopleuron simple, without lateral protuberance (similar to Fig. 29).”

Remarks. Claussen and Weipert (2003) described E. puncatata from a unique female collected in Nepal. The holotype is in the personal collection of Jörg Weipert in Plaue, Germany and was unavailable for the present study.