Mesembrius maculifer Hull, 1941

Jordaens, Kurt, Goergen, Georg, Skevington, Jeffrey H., Kelso, Scott & Meyer, Marc De, 2021, Revision of the Afrotropical species of the hover fly genus Mesembrius Rondani (Diptera, Syrphidae) using morphological and molecular data, ZooKeys 1046, pp. 1-141 : 1

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scientific name	Mesembrius maculifer Hull, 1941
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Treatment

Mesembrius maculifer Hull, 1941 Figs 33 View Figures 33, 34 , 73 View Figures 70–74 , 114 View Figures 113–118 , 135 View Figures 135–138

Mesembrius maculifera Hull, 1941: 332.

Mesembrius maculifer - Smith and Vockeroth (1980): 504.

Differential diagnosis.

The female of Mesembrius maculifer cannot be confused with any other species by the reddish-brown colour of tergite II with a pair of cream-coloured slender maculae. The male is unknown.

Examined material.

Mesembrius maculifera Hull: Holotype, female, " Oriental forest // Fanovana, Dist. // Fianarantsoa // Madagascar " "I-V, 1937 // C Lamberton" "TYPE 6595 // Mesembrius // Mesembrius maculifera // F.M. Hull " " Mesembrius // Mesembrius maculifera // Hull n.sp." [ANSP]

Paratype: Madagascar • 1♀; Oriental Forest , Fanovana; date and collector unknown; CNC .

Re-description female

(Fig. 33 View Figures 33, 34 ). Body length: 11.2 mm. Wing length: 8.7 mm. (Only female paratype measured).

Head (Fig. 73 View Figures 70–74 ). Eyes bare, dichoptic. Face chocolate-brown to mahogany-red. Frons with ventral 2/3 light yellow-brown pilose. Face very short reddish pubescent; sparsely long pale pilose. Ocellar triangle bare. Frontal triangle with a transverse band of dark pile. Occiput chocolate-brown to mahogany-red; thick dark brown pilose. Antenna dark reddish-brown; arista paler.

Thorax. Dull black; lateral margins and scutellum very dark red; pleurites black; reddish-orange pilose. Scutellum dull black; white pilose.

Legs. Predominantly black, the distal part of the pro- and mesolegs dark red; all tibiae dark red; all tarsi black dorsally, the hind pair rather flattened. Pile pale whitish on tarsi and tibiae.

Wing (Fig. 135 View Figures 135–138 ). Proximal half of the wing deep brown, especially at the r-m crossvein.

Abdomen (Fig. 114 View Figures 113–118 ). Dull black. Tergite II with a pair of prominent light-yellow maculae; white pilose anteriorly, light reddish pilose posteriorly. Tergite III and IV dark brown to black; light reddish pilose, but blackish on the middle of the posterior part.

Male.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Madagascar.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Syrphidae
Genus	Mesembrius