Merodon Flavitibius Paramonov, 1926

Vujić, Ante, Radenković, Snežana, Tubić, Nataša Kočiš, Likov, Laura, Popov, Grigory, Rojo, Santos & Miličić, Marija, 2023, Integrative taxonomy of the Merodon aberrans (Diptera, Syrphidae) species group: distribution patterns and description of three new species, Contributions to Zoology 92 (1), pp. 51-96 : 64

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Merodon Flavitibius Paramonov, 1926 View in CoL

Merodon isperensis Hurkmans, 1993 View in CoL (as subspecies of M. aberrans View in CoL ) syn. n.

“ Merodon aberrans View in CoL Egg. var. flavitibius View in CoL nova” Paramonow, 1926: 153.

Type locality: Armenia. Original description was based on an unknown number of syntypes, two of them were located in the Paramonov’s collection ( SIZK, examined): Lectotype: male with labels: [N 317], [Инаклю (= Inaklyu, modern Antarut village, 40.35N, 44.266667E, asl 1450 m) / Эчмиадз. у. (= Echmiadzin (modern Vagharshapat) District) / Эрив. г. (= Yerevan Region, Armenia) 17.vii.24.], [ Merodon aberrans Eger / var. flavitibius / var. nov. ♂ Typus / Paramonov. d.] ( SIZK). Paralectotype: female with labels: [N 318], [г. Карны-Ярых (KarnyMount Yarykh, = Mount Ara, 40.4056N 44.4522E, asl 2614 m) / Эчмиадз. у. / Эрив. г. (= Yerevan Region, Armenia) 26.vii.24.], [ Merodon / aberrans Egg. / var. flavitibius / var. nov. ♀ Typus / Paramonov d.] ( SIZK).

Note. In the original description, only the type locality is given, namely “Patria: Armenia ”. The exact number of types is unknown, as it is not specified by the author of the species ( Paramonow, 1926: 153). The types were considered lost ( Liepa, 1969: 20; Hurkmans, 1993: 205). In Peck (1988: 166), taxon was given as subspecies Merodon aberrans flavitibius Paramanov (sic!), 1926, according to article 45g ( II) ICZN (1985). Hurkmans (1993: 176) also left the subspecific rank for the taxon. He also erroneously indicated that Paramonov published the name with a subspecies status (ibid.). We designate here the male as the lectotype, and the female as the paralectotype.