Copestylum mexicanum, (MACQUART, 1842)

Rotheray, Graham E., Marcos-García, Maria-Angeles, Hancock, Geoff, Pérez-Bañón, Celeste & Maier, Chris T., 2009, Neotropical Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) breeding in Agavaceae and Cactaceae including seven new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (4), pp. 697-749 : 720

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00503.x

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492273

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC8791-FFC0-FFCC-FCA0-FCF2148CC6D0

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Copestylum mexicanum
status

 

COPESTYLUM MEXICANUM (MACQUART, 1842) View in CoL

Larva and puparium: Posterior breathing tube shiny below TR. Above TR shiny and faintly punctured. AP about as long as TR is wide and with an incomplete and shallow longitudinal groove from spiracular plates to TR. Pupal spiracles slightly curved from the base and about 2¥ as far apart as pupal spiracle is long.

Taxonomic notes: This species may be distinguished from others in the group by the AP which is about as long as TR is wide and the slightly curved pupal spiracles.

Material examined: 1 ♂, one puparium MEXICO, Hidalgo, Metztitlán , 18.viii.2005 M. A. M. ex Opuntia sp. ( CIBIO) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Copestylum

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