Copestylum (Phalacromya) azurea ( Philippi, 1865 )

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia, 2021, Updating the knowledge of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Chile: Illustrated catalog, extinction risk and biological notes, Zootaxa 4959 (1), pp. 1-178 : 82-83

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Copestylum (Phalacromya) azurea ( Philippi, 1865 )
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Copestylum (Phalacromya) azurea ( Philippi, 1865) View in CoL

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Volucella azurea Philippi, 1865: 734 Type locality and data. “ Colchagua , PropeLlico, Chile ” (T, ♂, MNHNCL) .

Material examined. Coquimbo: 1♂, Costa Ovalle, 20.I.1945, Leg. NN ( MNHNCL); Valparaíso: 1♂, Horcones, 12.I.1975, Leg. Cerda ( MNHNCL); 1♂, El Granizo, 6.I.1964, Leg. Lineros ( MNHNCL); 1♂, Colliguay, 03.I.1967, Leg. Cerda ( MNHNCL); 1♀, Leyda, III.1948, Leg. L. Peña ( CNC); 1♀, Quillota, no date, Leg. NN ( IEUMCE); 1♂, Perales, II.1923, Leg. NN ( IEUMCE); 1♂, Río Blanco, 21–29.III.1954, Leg. L. Peña ( CNC); Metropolitana: 3♂, 2♀, Lampa, 17.II.1965, Leg. NN ( IEUMCE); 1♀, Quilicura, 23.I.1967, Leg. NN ( IEUMCE); 2♂, 1♀, Las Condes, 12.I.1965, Leg. V. Pérez ( MNHNCL); 2♂, Macul, no date, Leg. M. Etcheverry ( IEUMCE); 1♂, El Peumo, 21.IX.1949, Leg. L.E. Peña ( INIA); 1♂, 2♀, Quebrada de Macul, 26.I.1953, Leg. L.E. Peña ( MNHNCL; INIA); 1♂, Puente Alto, no date, Leg. J. Herrera ( IEUMCE); 4♂, 1♀, La Obra, no date, Leg, NN ( IEUMCE); 12♂, 8♀, El Canelo, no date, Leg. Etcheverry ( CNC); 2♂, El Manzano, 05.IV.1966, Leg. C. Vergara ( MEUC); 1♀, El Alfalfal, 26.III.1961, Leg. NN ( MEUC); 1♀, El Arrayán, 13.I.1993, Leg. R. Trincado ( INIA); 1♂, 1♂, El Volcán, 10.I.1964, Leg. Montes ( IEUMCE); 1♀, El Peumo, no date, Leg. M. Etcheverry ( IEUMCE); 1♂, Guayacan, I.1951, Leg. NN ( MZUC); 1♂, 1♀, Agua del Palo, no date, Leg. M. Etcheverry ( IEUMCE); 2♀, Quebrada de la Plata, 26.I.1966, Leg. R.H. González ( MEUC); 1♂, Bocatoma río Maipo, 10.I.1968, Leg. J. Moroni ( MNHNCL); O’Higgins: Llico ( Philippi 1865, Shannon &Aubertin 1933); Maule: 1♂, El Coigo, 11–31.I.1960, Leg. L. Peña ( CNC); 1♂, 1♀, Los Queñes, La Jaula, 14.II.1965, Leg. L. Peña ( CNC); 1♂, Buchen, III.1956, Leg. L. Peña ( CNC); 2♂, 1♀, Fundo Malcho, Linares, I.1957, Leg. L. Peña ( CNC).

References. Philippi, 1865: 734 (desc.); Williston, 1886: 316 (cat.); Reed, 1888: 297 (cat.); Hine, 1914: 338 (desc.); Curran, 1930c: 8 (key); Shannon & Aubertin, 1933: 169 (desc.); Curran, 1934: 381 (key); Stuardo, 1946: 129 (cat.); Fluke, 1957: 60 (cat.); Etcheverry, 1963: 96 (cat.); Thompson, 1972b: 109 ( Milesiinae rev.); Thompson et al., 1976: 72 (cat.); Camousseight, 2005: 93 (cat.).

World distribution. Argentina and Chile.

Chilean distribution. From Coquimbo to Maule region ( Fig. 144 View FIGURE 144 ).

Altitudinal range. From coastal to precordillera ecosystems (10– 1,000 m.a.s.l.).

Biology and notes. Copestylum azurea is associated with sclerophyllous forests in the Mediterranean basin of Central Chile. Although this species does not meet the VU classification under the IUCN for EOO subcriterion, its distribution has been affected by land-use change by urbanization and croplands, especially avocado crops, disappearing from several historical localities. These localities are included in this catalog, but in the official local Ministry of Environment red list, these are not considered. Therefore, this species has been classified as VU in the 13 th process of classification of species by the Environmental Ministry of Chile under the IUCN criteria (www. mma.gob.cl/clasificacionespecies). After six years of citizen science project, recently this species was seen alive in precordillera of Santiago feeding on Colletia hystrix Clos (David Bijman, CSP record) and representing the first record in situ of C. azureum .

Conservation status. VU under B2ab (iii) using AOO = 124 km 2 and only five historical localities (or subpopulations) remain (originally these were 27); EOO = 22,724 km 2.

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

IEUMCE

INSTITUTO DE ENTOMOLOGIA UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION

INIA

El Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias

MEUC

Universidad de Chile

MZUC

Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Concepcion

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Copestylum

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Copestylum (Phalacromya) azurea ( Philippi, 1865 )

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia 2021
2021
Loc

Volucella azurea

Philippi, P. I. 1865: 734
1865
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