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Pupal stages of three species of the phytophagous genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae)
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Preradović, Jelena, Andrić, Andrijana, Radenković, Snežana, Zorić, Ljiljana Šašić, Pérez-Bañón, Celeste, Campoy, Andrés, Vujić, Ante (2018): Pupal stages of three species of the phytophagous genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae). Zootaxa 4420 (2): 229-242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.2.5
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- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/30060
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- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D6E64FC2-1265-4163-8F76-C888105E1297
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- Genetic identification of the two other hoVerfly puparia found on the ground close to O. umbellatum plants in August 2015, namely P3 and P4, was unsuccessful because the sequencing failed to obtain DNA from a hoVerfly species. Instead, we obtained sequences of two hymenopterans. Thus, sequencing analysis reVealed parasitoidism by wasps of the Hymenopteran families Diapriidae and Ichneumonidae. NeVertheless, based on morphological characters, puparium P3 (parasitoidized by Diapriidae) was identified as M. avidus and puparium P4 (parasitoidized by Ichneumonidae) as M. aureus.
- Examined material. Derdap National Park, Serbia (44°32'38"N, 22°01'08"E), leg. J. PreradoVic: 1 puparium in the ground near bulbs of Ornithogalum umbellatum, V.2013 (P1 in FSUNS); 1 puparium on the ground close to O. umbellatum plants, Viii.2015 (P4 in FSUNS).
- Biology. Males and females of M. aureus were obserVed flying near and resting on plants of Ornithogalum sp. from the beginning of May to the beginning of June in 2011-2013 and 2015-2016 (more than 50 obserVations in total). Up to four adults were noted to sometimes rest simultaneously on the same plant leaVes. Females of M. aureus were often obserVed settling for oViposition between the base of an Ornithogalum sp. plant and the surrounding soil, behaVing as if they were laying eggs on the ground, Very close to the plant. HoweVer, we neVer found eggs. The females made intermittent buzzing sounds while maintaining their positions for oVer fiVe minutes. Thereafter, they cleaned themselVes for a few minutes before flying away.
- Examined material. Derdap National Park, Serbia (44°32'38"N, 22°01'08"E), leg. J. PreradoVic: 2 puparia in the ground near bulbs of Ornithogalum umbellatum, Viii.2015 and xi.2015 (P2 and P5 in FSUNS); 1 puparium on the ground close to O. umbellatum plants, Viii.2015 (P3 in FSUNS); 1 puparium in the ground near bulbs of O. umbellatum, 29.V.2016, ♂ emerged on 8.Vi.2016 (P6 in FSUNS).