Pipunculosyrphus Hull, 1937

Mengual, Ximo, Miranda, Gil Felipe G. & Thompson, F. Christian, 2018, Unraveling Ocyptamus and the Baccha legacy (Diptera: Syrphidae): redefinition of groups and new species descriptions, Zootaxa 4461 (1), pp. 1-44: 14

Genus Pipunculosyrphus Hull, 1937  Edit stat. rev.

Fig. 61.

Pipunculosyrphus Hull, 1937: 29  Edit , as a genus. Type species: Pipunculosyrphus globiceps Hull, 1937  Edit (original designation). Baccha  Edit ( Pipunculosyrphus  Edit ). Hull (1949a).

Ocyptamus  Edit ( Pipunculosyrphus  Edit ). Mengual et al. (2012).

Ocyptamus globiceps  Edit species group. Miranda et al. (2016).  Edit

Diagnosis. Large head. Narrow face. Narrow frons/frontal triangle. Without alula. Abdomen with inverted Vshaped fascia and/or oblique fasciate markings.

Comments. This genus looks morphologically close to Orphnabaccha  Edit , but with a narrow face and frons/ frontal triangle, bare metasternum and elongated brown tinged wings.

Species list (2): P. globiceps Hull, 1937  Edit , P. scintillans ( Hull, 1943e)  Edit .

Figures

FIGURES 55–61. 55: Orphnabaccha lanei (Fluke) [male paratype, MZUSP], habitus, dorsal view. 56: Orphnabaccha coerulea (Williston) [male, USNM], habitus, dorsal view. 57: Orphnabaccha coerulea [male, USNM], head, frontal view. 58– 60: male genitalia: a: lateral view; b: hypandrium, postgonite and phallus, ventral view; c: postgonite, lateral view, outline only; d: distal portion of phallus, anteroventral view. 58: Orphnabaccha calda (Walker) (from Vockeroth 1969). 59: Orphnabaccha coerulea, male genitalia (from Vockeroth 1969). 60: Orphnabaccha ampla (Fluke), male genitalia (from Vockeroth 1969). 61: Pipunculosyrphus globiceps Hull [female, ZFMK], habitus, dorsal view. Scale = 1 mm.