Trichopsomyia joratensis (Goeldlin de Tiefenau, 1997)

Prokhorov, A. V., Popov, G. V., Shparyk, V. Yu. & Vasilyeva, Yu. S., 2023, New Records Of Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) From Ukraine. Vi, Zoodiversity 57 (2), pp. 125-142 : 132-133

Trichopsomyia joratensis (Goeldlin de Tiefenau, 1997) ( figs 35–40 )

= carbonaria auctt. nec Meigen, 1822 (misidentification)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Ukraine. Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Vorokhta env., 48.157958 N 24.535381 E ,

Chornohora Mts. , Carpathian National Nature Park, Pozhyzhevska Mt., 27.06.2008, 1 Ơ ( V. Shparyk) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway (?), Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland ( Bańkowska, 1963 (as Pipiza carbonaria ); Peck, 1988 (as carbonaria ); Verlinden, 1991 (as carbonaria ); Dirickx, 1994 (as Pipiza carbonaria ); Holinka & Mazánek, 1997 (as carbonaria ); Stănescu & Pârvu, 2005 (as carbonaria ); Bartsch et al., 2009 b; Reemer et al., 2009; Tóth, 2011; Haarto & Kerppola, 2014; van Steenis et al., 2015; Nielsen & Gammelmo, 2017; Speight et al., 2018; van Steenis et al., 2018; Vujić et al., 2018; Speight, 2020; Wakkie, 2021; Mielczarek & Żóralski, 2021; van der Ent et al., 2021); Ukraine (first record).

Diagnosis. The male of Trichopsomyia joratensis differs from other European species of the genus, T. flavitarsis (Meigen, 1822) and T. lucida (Meigen, 1822) , by postpedicel approximately 1.5 times longer than wide ( fig. 37 ) (in other species, postpedicel at least two times longer than wide), face half as wide as width of the head ( fig. 39 ) (in other species, face about 2/5 times as wide as width of the head) ( van Steenis et al., 2018; Speight, 2020).

Figures

Figs 35–40. Trichopsomyia joratensis male: 35 — habitus, dorsal view; 36 — habitus, lateral view; 37 — head, anterolateral view; 38 — head, anterodorsal view; 39 — head, frontal view; 40 — left hind leg, dorsal view.