Xanthogramma pruthii, DEORAS, 1942

Mengual, Ximo, 2012, The flower fly genus Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae): illustrated revision with descriptions of new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1), pp. 99-172 : 106

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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00750.x

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5479512

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scientific name

Xanthogramma pruthii
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XANTHOGRAMMA PRUTHII DEORAS, 1942 View in CoL

Deoras (1943) described a new species of Xanthogramma from the Delhi area ( India), named X. pruthii . This species was reared from eggs found amongst groups of Myzus persicae (Sulzer, 1776) and adults have terga 2 to 4 each with two lateral curved yellow maculae. This species was mentioned again from New Delhi and adjoining areas by Anand, Rai & Sharma (1967) and Anand (1986). They also reported another species of this genus, as Xanthogramma sp. , feeding on Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach, 1843) and Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris, 1776) ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ). Deoras also related his new species to C. citrinum , at that time the only ‘ Xanthogramma ’ species described from India. Ghorpadé (unpubl. data) examined the type material at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute ( IARI, New Delhi) and found it to be Scaeva latimaculata ( Brunetti, 1923) .

Similarly, other such mistaken identities were published for ‘ Xanthogramma sp. ’ by Rao (1969), Gokulpure (1972), Habib (1973), Rai (1976), Das & Raychaudhuri (1983), Agarwala, Dutta & Raychaudhuri (1983), Agarwala, Láska & Raychaudhuri (1984), Anand (1986), and Aslamkhan, Safdar & Azizullah (1997) from central and northern India, and Pakistan, which are probably misidentifications for either S. latimaculata or Allograpta javana (Wiedemann, 1824) (K. Ghorpadé pers. comm.).

IARI

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Xanthogramma

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