Eumerus vestitus Bezzi 1912
Description
Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912
(Figs. 4-6, 7)
Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912: 443.
Type locality: Guinea-Bissau (West Africa).
Diagnosis: Eumerus vestitus can be easily characterized by the following characters: eyes holoptic in males (Fig. 4D), dichoptic in females (Fig. 5D), sparsely covered with short yellowish hairs;vertex with yellowish hairs,ocellar triangle dark brown(Fig.5E);face densely covered with white hairs; scutellum dark brown, hind margin with distinctly long yellowish hairs (Fig. 5A);male with swollen hind basitarsus bearing long bristle-like black hairs dorsolaterally (Fig.6F); abdominal tergites II-IV with an oblique greyish stripe; sternite IV in male with U-shaped depression medially, with ventrally thick spatulated microtrichia (Figs. 6 A-B).
Material examined: Pakistan. Punjab province, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, 1♂, 2♀, 22.x.2016; 1♂, 15.vii.2017; 1♂, 14.x.2017, leg. M.A. Hassan (NIM).
Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab: Rawalpindi), new country record, – Arabian Peninsula, Egypt (Ezbet El Nakhl), Greece (Santorini Island), Guinea-Bissau, India (New Delhi), Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen (Bezzi, 1912; Efflatoun, 1922; Curran, 1938; GrkoviĆ et al., 2015; Smith et al., 2017; El-Hawagry et al., 2017; Dawah et al., 2020; Anooj et al., 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2016-10-22 , 2017-07-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2016-10-22 , 2017-07-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Bezzi
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Eumerus
- Species
- vestitus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912 sec. Hassan, Shehzad, Dyola, Qasim, Fatima & Maryam, 2022
References
- Bezzi, M. 1912. Ditteri raccolti da Leonardo Fea durante il suo viaggio nell' Africa occidentale. Parte 1 ª: Syrphidae. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, 45: 400 - 453.
- Efflatoun, H. C. 1922. A monograph of Egyptian Diptera. (Part I. Fam. Syrphidae). Memoires de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, 2: 1 - 123.
- Curran, C. H. 1938. Records and descriptions of African Syrphidae - I (Diptera). American Museum Novitates, 1009: 1 - 15.
- Grkovic, A.; Vujic, A.; Radenkovic, S.; Chroni, A. & Petanidou, T. 2015. Diversity of the genus Eumerus Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) on the eastern Mediterranean islands with description of three new species. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 51 (4): 361 - 373.
- Smith, J. T.; van Harten, A. & Ketelaar, R. 2017. Order Diptera, family Syrphidae the hoverflies of the Arabian Peninsula. In: van Harten, A. (Ed.). Arthropod fauna of the UAE. Vol. 6. Abu Dhabi, Department of the President's Affairs. p. 572 - 612.
- El-Hawagry, M. S.; Abdel-Dayem, M. S.; El-Sonbati, S. A. & Al Dhafer, H. M. 2017. A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Gard Raydah Nature Reserve, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with new records and biogeographical remarks (Diptera: Insecta). Journal of Natural History, 51 (25 - 26): 1499 - 1530. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2017.1347299.
- Dawah, H. A.; Abdullah, M. A.; Ahmad, S. K.; Al-Dhafer, H. & Turner, J. 2020. An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia. Zootaxa, 4855 (1): 001 - 0069. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4855.1.1.
- Anooj, S. S.; Kalia, V.; Krishna, G. K. & Ghopade, K. 2020. New biogeographic distribution record of phytophagous syrphid, Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, its biosystematics, host preferences and association behavior. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 40 (3): 527 - 538. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 42690 - 020 - 00100 - 3.