Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Shehzad, Anjum, Dyola, Urmila, Qasim, Muhammad, Fatima, Noor & Maryam, Zershina, 2022, Two species of the hoverfly genus Eumerus Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) new record for Pakistan, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-10 : 6-7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.067

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7618064

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/333E4903-FF83-B54D-FF63-21F7664D921F

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scientific name

Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912
status

 

Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912 View in CoL View at ENA

( Figs. 4-6 View Figure 4 View Figure 5 View Figure 6 , 7 View Figure 7 )

Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912: 443 View in CoL .

Type locality: Guinea-Bissau (West Africa).

Diagnosis: Eumerus vestitus can be easily characterized by the following characters: eyes holoptic in males ( Fig. 4D View Figure 4 ), dichoptic in females ( Fig. 5D View Figure 5 ), sparsely covered with short yellowish hairs;vertex with yellowish hairs,ocellar triangle dark brown( Fig.5E View Figure 5 );face densely covered with white hairs; scutellum dark brown, hind margin with distinctly long yellowish hairs ( Fig. 5A View Figure 5 );male with swollen hind basitarsus bearing long bristle-like black hairs dorsolaterally ( Fig.6F View Figure 6 ); abdominal tergites II-IV with an oblique greyish stripe; sternite IV in male with U-shaped depression medially, with ventrally thick spatulated microtrichia ( Figs. 6 View Figure 6 A-B).

Material examined: Pakistan. Punjab province, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi , 1♂, 2♀, 22.x.2016 ; 1♂, 15.vii.2017 ; 1♂, 14.x.2017, leg. M.A. Hassan (NIM).

Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab: Rawalpindi), new country record, – Arabian Peninsula, Egypt (Ezbet El Nakhl), Greece (Santorini Island), Guinea-Bissau, India (New Delhi), Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen ( Bezzi, 1912; Efflatoun, 1922; Curran, 1938; GrkoviĆ et al., 2015; Smith et al., 2017; El-Hawagry et al., 2017; Dawah et al., 2020; Anooj et al., 2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Eumerus

Loc

Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Shehzad, Anjum, Dyola, Urmila, Qasim, Muhammad, Fatima, Noor & Maryam, Zershina 2022
2022
Loc

Eumerus vestitus

Bezzi, M. 1912: 443
1912
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