Merodon quercetorum Marcos-García, Vujić & Mengual

Veselić, Sanja, Vujić, Ante & Radenković, Snežana, 2017, Three new Eastern-Mediterranean endemic species of the Merodon aureus group (Diptera: Syrphidae), Zootaxa 4254 (4), pp. 401-434 : 414

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6024594

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A6034369-FF9D-FFA7-38B0-A785FD4AFAB3

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scientific name

Merodon quercetorum Marcos-García, Vujić & Mengual
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Merodon quercetorum Marcos-García, Vujić & Mengual View in CoL

Figs 10 View FIGURE 10 , 11 View FIGURE 11

Type material (revised). HOLOTYPE: Spain: ♂, Cáceres , Pto Honduras, Hervás, 1450 m, 28.viii.1980, leg. Marcos-García ( CEUA) . PARATYPES: Spain: 2 ♀, Alicante , Caveta del Buitre (Natural Park Mariola), Agres, 1200 m, 30.viii–11.ix.2001, leg. X. Mengual ( CEUA) ; 3 ♂ + 2 ♀, Alicante , Caveta del Buitre, Agres, 1200 m, 14– 30.viii.2001, leg. X. Mengual ( CEUA) ; ♂, Alicante , Font Roja (Natural Park), Alcoi, 30.viii.1993, leg. P.M. Isidro ( CEUA) ; ♀, Alicante , Font Roja (Natural Park), Alcoi 10–24.ix.1992, leg. F. Luna ( FSUNS) ; 2 ♀, Ávila , Sierra Candelario, Santiago de Aravalle, 2200 m, 29.viii.1980, leg. Marcos-García ( CEUA) ; 8 ♂ + 1 ♀, Cáceres , Pto Honduras, Hervás, 1450 m, 28.viii.1980, leg. Marcos-García ( CEUA) ; ♂ + ♀, Cáceres , Pto Honduras, Hervás, 1450 m, 28.viii.1980, leg. Marcos-García ( MNMS) ; ♀ Cáceres , Pto Honduras, Hervás, 1450 m, 28.viii.1980, leg. Marcos-García ( FSUNS) ; 2 ♀, León , Pto. Leitariegos, 10.ix.1987, leg. Marcos-García ( CEUA) ( Marcos-García et al. 2007).

Diagnosis. Species with completely pale tibiae and tarsi; eyes predominantly pale pilose; mesoscutum with black pile near wing basis or with stripe of black pile between wing bases; hind femur usually with black pile in apical half; tergites in male with alternating stripes of pale and black pile ( Figs 10 View FIGURE 10 a, 10b).

Range and preferred habitat. Iberian Peninsula ( Spain) ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ); Forest and open ground, open areas in thermophilous Quercus ( Q. faginea , Q. pyrenaica ) and evergreen oak ( Q. rotundifolia ) forest and open ground at higher altitudes, up to 2200 m ( Speight 2016).

FSUNS

Faculty of Science, The University of Novi Sad

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

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