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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).

Notes

Published as part of Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Shehzad, Anjum, Dyola, Urmila, Qasim, Muhammad, Fatima, Noor & Maryam, Zershina, 2022, Two species of the hoverfly genus Eumerus Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) new record for Pakistan, pp. 1-10 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.067, http://zenodo.org/record/7617614

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Additional details

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.