Eumerus nepalensis Brunetti, 1908

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 : 3-4

Eumerus nepalensis Brunetti, 1908

Eumerus nepalensis Brunetti, 1908: 76 .

Type locality: Nepal (Chonebal).

Remarks: Eumerus nepalensis was originally described based on a single female from Nepal. The type specimen is deposited in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta ( Ghorpadé, 2015). This species is only known in Nepal, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Unfortunately,the male is still unknown.Morphologically, this species is very similar to Eumerus aurifrons but can be distinguished by the relatively larger body size (5.0- 8.0 mm) and the female with hind basitarsus is normal, not flattened.The images of the type specimen were not available for the present study for morphological comparison with E. aurifrons . We hope to confirm the validity of this species in future studies either based on type images or to find new material from the type locality. However, recently, Garcete-Barrett et al. (2020) provided detailed photographs and diagnostic characters of both males and females of Eumerus aurifrons , in which the diagnosis of females is quite similar to the original description of Eumerus nepalensis , where eyes have whitish hairs and its scutellum has a distinct rim which is narrowly serrated in ventral view.

Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab: Murree), – India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir), Afghanistan, Nepal ( Brunetti, 1908, 1915, 1923; Mitra et al., 2015; Shehzad et al., 2017; Ghorpadé, 2014, 2015, 2019).