Copestylum (Lepidopsis) smithae ( Thompson, 1965 )

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 : 82

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1

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Copestylum (Lepidopsis) smithae ( Thompson, 1965 )
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Copestylum (Lepidopsis) smithae ( Thompson, 1965) View in CoL

Figs 118–119 View FIGURES 118–121

Lepidopsis smithae Thompson, 1965: 61 View in CoL

Type locality and data. “ La Rioja: Mascasin , Argentina ” (HT, ♂, USNM) .

Material examined. Tarapacá: 11♂, 10♀, south Chiapa , Tarapacá Province, 23.IV.1969, Leg. L.E. Peña ( MEUC) .

References. Thompson, 1965: 61 (desc.); Thompson, 1972b: 110 ( Milesiinae rev.); Thompson et al., 1976: 84 (cat.); Whittinton, 1992: 214 (desc. Graptomyza View in CoL ); Rotheray et al., 2009: 706 (desc.).

World distribution. Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.

Chilean distribution. Only recorded from Tarapacá region ( Fig. 146 View FIGURE 146 ).

Altitudinal range. This species has been recorded inhabiting highland ecosystems (3,500 -3,800 m.a.s.l.).

Biology and notes. Copestylum smithae is here reported from Chile for the first time and associated with native flora from the Andes highlands ecosystems in the Puna province ( Morrone 2014). Larvae of C. smithae has been associated with Opuntia cacti by Rotheray et al. (2009).

Conservation status. DD; AOO = 2 km 2 and one locality (or subpopulation).

Subgenus Phalacromya Rondani, 1848

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

MEUC

Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Copestylum

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Copestylum (Lepidopsis) smithae ( Thompson, 1965 )

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia 2021
2021
Loc

Lepidopsis smithae

Thompson, F. C. 1965: 61
1965
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