Toxomerus aquilinus Sack, 1941
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Toxomerus aquilinus Sack View in CoL
( Figs. 80–82)
Mesogramma anchoratus Schiner, 1868: 348 (descr.); Osten Sacken, 1878: 125 (citation); Williston, 1886: 313 (cat.);
Kertész, 1910: 149 (cat.); Curran, 1930: 3 (key); Hull, 1943b: 9, 35 (key and illustration); Fluke, 1956: 217 (cat.). Mitrosphen interruptus Enderlein, 1938: 227 View in CoL (descr.); Metz & Thompson, 2001: 231 (synonym). Toxomerus aquilinus Sack, 1941: 100 (1951: 96) View in CoL (descr.); Fluke, 1956: 157 (cat.); Thompson et al., 1976: 48 (cat.); Metz
& Thompson, 2001: 228, 231 (key and redescr.).
Mesograpta interruptus Fluke, 1956: 224 (cat.).
Diagnosis. Face 1/3 as long as eye width, yellow; frontal triangle yellow. Proepimeron yellow; scutum black except broadly yellow laterally; scutellum brown with yellow margins, black pilose; anepimeron black. Femora and tibiae yellow, except metatibia brownish. Wing extensively bare; alula broader than cell BM appically, microtrichose. Abdomen with 3 rd and 4 th terga with apical black transverse area, neither curved anteriorly nor extending to base laterally. Surstylus concave apically in lateral view; postanal process not distinct; aedeagus enlarged, proeminent dorsally; superior lobe somewhat rounded with short dorsal extension, forked distad, with scattered hairs, longer along anteroventral margin, with small lobe posteriorly with hairs.
Female genitalia: 9 th tergum with somewhat quadrangular black macula pointed anteriorly; epiproct slender; cercus slender; hypoproct somewhat triangular; 9 th sternum as in Fig. 81; three rounded spermatecae similar in size ( Figs. 80–82).
Length. Body 9.6–11.5 mm, wing 7.2–8.6 mm.
Material examined. VENEZUELA. Puerto Ayacucho: ♂ & ♀, 19/I/1989, P. J. Spangler, R. A. Faitoute & C. B. Barr ( USNM) . PERU. Cuzco: ♀, 3–6/XII/1979, J. B. Heppner ( USNM) . BRAZIL. Amazonas: Puruzinho , ♂, 14–17/XI – 3–6/XII/1975, Exp. Perm. Amaz. ( USNM) . Rondônia: Vila Velha , 2 ♂ & ♀, IX/ 1973, Alvarenga & Roppa ( MNRJ) ; ♂ & 4 ♀, X/1986, P. Magno & J. Becker ( MNRJ) ; Calama , 10 ♂ & 5 ♀, 19–21/XI/1975, Exp. Perm. Amaz. ( USNM) . Goiás: Corumbá , 4 ♂ & 15 ♀, XI/1946, M. P. Barreto ( MZSP) . Mato Grosso: Maracajú , 2 ♀, II/1937 ( USNM) ; 3 ♀, VI/1937 ( MZSP) ; S. Domingos, ♀, XI/1949, Werner ( MZSP) ; Sinop , 20 ♂ & 22 ♀, III/1976, Alvarenga & Roppa ( MNRJ) ; Vera , 13 ♂ & 7 ♀, X/1973, Alvarenga & Roppa ( MNRJ) . Minas Gerais: Caldas , 5 ♂ & 2 ♀, 8/I/1967, O. Roppa & O. Leoncini ( MNRJ) ; Belo Horizonte , ♀, 15/XII/1972, Grisi ( MNRJ) ; Arceburgo , ♀, XII/1946, Barretto ( MZSP) . São Paulo: Barueri , ♀, 8/XI/1954, K. Lenko ( MZSP) ; Santo Amaro , 2 ♂, II/1950, J. Lane ( MNRJ) . Paraná: Porto Cabral , ♂, 20–31/ III/1944, Trav. Fo, Carrera & E. Dente ( USNM) .
Geographical record. Widespread, from Mexico to southern Brazil.
Curran, C. H. (1930) New Diptera belonging to the genus Mesogramma Loew (Syrphidae). American Museum Novitates, 405, 1 - 14.
Enderlein, G. (1938) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Syrphiden. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Ber 1 in 1937, 192 - 237.
Fluke, C. L. (1956) Catalogue of the family Syrphidae in the Neotropical Region. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 6, 193 - 268.
Hull, F. M. (1943 b) The genus Mesogramma. Entomologica Americana, 23, 1 - 41.
Kertesz, K. (1910) Catalogus dipterorum hucusque descriptorum. Vol. VII. Museum Nationale Hungaricum, Budapestini, 470 pp.
Metz, M. & Thompson, F. C. (2001) A revision of the larger species of Toxomerus (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new species. Studia dipterologica, 8, 225 - 256.
Osten Sacken, C. R. (1878) Catalogue of the described Diptera of North America. Second Edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 16 (2), xlviii - 276.
Sack, P. (1941) Syrphidae (Diptera). In: Titschack, E. (Ed.) Beitrage zur Fauna Perus, Band I, Jena, pp. 97 - 120
Schiner, I. R. (1868) Diptera. In: Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von. (Ed.). Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Vol. 2, B. K. Gerold's Sohn, Wienna, pp. vi + 388.
Thompson, F. C., Vockeroth, J. R. & Sedman, Y. S. (1976) A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae. Vol. 46. Museu de Zoologia, Sao Paulo, 195 pp.
Williston, S. W. (1886) Catalogue of the described species of South American Syrphidae. Transaction of the American Entomological Society, 14, 308 - 324.
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Toxomerus aquilinus Sack
Borges, Zuleica M. & Couri, Marcia S. 2009 |
Mesograpta interruptus
Fluke, C. L. 1956: 224 |
Mesogramma anchoratus
Williston, S. W. 1886: 313 |
Osten Sacken, C. R. 1878: 125 |
Schiner, I. R. 1868: 348 |