Cepa simonettii Barahona-Segovia

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia, 2021, Updating the knowledge of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Chile: Illustrated catalog, extinction risk and biological notes, Zootaxa 4959 (1), pp. 1-178 : 52-53

Cepa simonettii Barahona-Segovia in Barahona-Segovia & Barceló (2019)

Figs 66–67

Cepa simonettii Barahona-Segovia in Barahona-Segovia 2019: 431

Type locality and data. “Santo Domingo, Valdivia, Chile ” (H, ♀, MNHNCL). Material examined. Los Ríos : 1♀, Santo Domingo, Valdivia, 22.IX.1987, Leg. E. Krahmer ( MNHNCL). References. Barahona-Segovia & Barceló, 2019: 431, figs 1–4 (desc. & key). World distribution. Chile. Chilean distribution. Only recorded from Los Ríos region ( Fig. 70 ). Altitudinal range. This species mainly inhabits native forests in coastal areas between 5 and 50 m. a.s.l. Biology and notes. Cepa simonettii is a species associated with the Valdivian evergreen forest. Other biological and ecological aspects of this species are unknown. Conservation status. DD; AOO = 2 km 2 and one locality (or subpopulation) .

Genus Eumerus Meigen, 1822

Eumerus Meigen, 1822: 202 . Type-species, Syrphus tricolor Fabricius (Curtis, 1839: 749) . Genus-group name conserved by ICZN (1993, Opinion 1747). Refs. Latta & Cole, 1933 (rev, key); Thompson et al., 1976: 92 (cat.); Thompson, 1999a: 332; Thompson, 2008: 3 (key), fig. 15 (wing).

Figures

FIGURE 70. Distribution map of Cepa simonettii Barahona-Segovia, 2019 (yellow circles); Eumerus strigatus (Fallén, 1817) (blue circles), and Macrometopia atra Philippi, 1865 (red circles) in Chile.

FIGURES 66–69. Cepa simonettii Barahona-Segovia, 2019: (66) female, lateral view; (67) female dorsal view (photos by Matías Barceló). Scale bars = 1 mm. Eumerus strigatus (Fallén, 1817): (68) visiting a Convolvulus sp., Quino, La Araucanía (photo by Miguel Mellado); (69) visiting a Raphanus raphanistrum L., Quino, La Araucanía (photo by Miguel Mellado)