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Melanostoma orientale

Description

Melanostoma orientale (Wiedemann, 1824)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Azerbaijan: NAR, Shakhbuz, Kechili, 1800 m [39°22ʹN 45°43ʹE], 22.VII 2018, 1 ♂; Julfa, Milakh, 1430 m [39°15ʹN 45°43ʹE], 27.VII 2018, 1 ♀; Shakhbuz, Shakhbuz, 1160 m [39°23ʹN 45°32ʹE], 30.VII 2018, 1 ♂; Sharur, Akhura, 1640 m [39°33'N 45°13'E], 13. VI 2019, 1 ♂; Julfa, Gazanchi, 1300 m [39°13ʹN 45°41ʹE], 15. VI 2019, 1 ♂, 1 ♀.

DISTRIBUTION. Reported for NAR for the first time. Widespread species in the Southern and Eastern Asia, found in the Eastern Georgia and the Caspian coast of Azerbaijan (Mutin & Barkalov, 1999).

REMARKS. The species is difficult to distinguish from Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus, 1758), which also exhibits wide variability in abdominal pattern. The main diagnostic feature of this species is the yellow maculae on tergum II, which reach the lateral margin.

Notes

Published as part of Mutin, V. A. & Proshchalykin, M. Yu, 2025, A NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF HOVERFLIES (DIPTERA: SYRPHIDAE) FROM THE NAKHCHIVAN AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN, pp. 1-14 in Far Eastern Entomologist 537 (537) on page 6, DOI: 10.25221/fee.537.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20504652

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MATERIAL , VI
Event date
2018-07-22 , 2018-07-27 , 2018-07-30
Verbatim event date
2018-07-22 , 2018-07-27 , 2018-07-30
Scientific name authorship
Wiedemann
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Melanostoma
Species
orientale
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanostoma orientale (Wiedemann, 1824) sec. Mutin & Proshchalykin, 2025

References

  • Mutin, V. A. & Barkalov, A. V. 1999. 62. Family Syrphidae. P. 342-500. In: Sidorenko, V. S. (Ed.). Key to the insects of Russian Far East. Vol. VI. Diptera and Siphonaptera. Pt. 1. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. [In Russian]