Merodon avidus Rossi 1790
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Merodon avidus Rossi, 1790
MATERIAL EXAMINED. Azerbaijan: NAR, Sharuz, Shahbulag, 1210 m [39°38ʹ57ʹʹN 45°08ʹ12ʹʹE], 26. V 2025, 1 ♂.
DISTRIBUTION. Reported for NAR for the first time. The Merodon avidus species complex is represented by a few species in the Transcaucasia, including sympatric ones, what creates problems with their identification. It was noted, that spring generations of M. avidus are very similar to those of M. moenium Meigen & Wiedemann, 1822 based on external morphology and are easily confused using existing diagnostic features (Vujić et al., 2024). It is probably this species that is listed in the review by Stackelberg & Richter (1968) as “ Merodon spinipes ab. avidus Rondani ” for Armenia, while the mentioned specimens from Talysh most likely refer to the recently described M. atroavidus Vujić, Radenković et Likov, 2024 or Merodon nigroscutum Vujić, Radenković et Likov, 2024. Mengual et al. (2020) points out, что all the identifications Caucasian members of Merodon avidus species complex are need the verification.
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- Journal article: 10.25221/fee.537.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/20504652 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1A6EFFBB7D68FFE7FFA7FFE0FF9DFFB9 (URL)
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- Vujic, A., Kocis Tubic, N., Radenkovic, S., Acanski, J., Likov, L., Arok, M., Gorse, I. & Djan, M. 2024. The extraordinary diversity of Merodon avidus complex (Diptera: Syrphidae) - adding new areas, new species and a new molecular marker. Insects, 15: 105. DOI: 10.3390/insects15020105
- Stackelberg, A. A. & Richter, V. A. 1968. Hover-flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of the Caucasus. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 52: 224-274. [In Russian]
- Mengual, X., Bot, S., Chkhartishvili, T., Reimann, A., Thormann, J. & von der Mark, L. 2020. Checklist of hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of the Republic of Georgia. ZooKeys, 916: 1-123. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.916.47824