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Xanthogramma dives

Description

Xanthogramma dives (Rondani, 1857)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Azerbaijan: NAR, Shakhbuz, Zarnatun, 1550 m [39°31ʹN 45°46ʹE], 14. VI 2019, 1 ♀.

DISTRIBUTION. Reported for NAR for the first time. The species is widespread in the Western Palaearctic, recorded in Turkey and Georgia.

REMARKS. It was considered a synonym of X. pedissequum (Harris, 1778) for some time (Peck, 1988). Stackelberg & Richter (1968) considered X. pedissequum as a common species throughout the Caucasus region and counted the synonym of X. maculipenne Mik, 1887 which was described for specimens collected in Göygöl (Azerbaijan). Probably, latter is conspecific X. dives (Mengual et al., 2020). Speight (2024) think, that in the Mediterranean zone X. pedissequum is largely replaced by X. dives and X. stackelbergi Violovitsh, 1975. The results of recent review of Georgia‘s hoverflies actually confirms this opinion (Mengual et al., 2020).

The research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme No. 124012400285-7).

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 pages 12-13, DOI: 10.25221/fee.537.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20504652

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MATERIAL , VI
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Xanthogramma
Species
dives
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Xanthogramma dives (Rondani, 1857) sec. Mutin & Proshchalykin, 2025

References

  • Peck, L. V. 1988. Family Syrphidae. P. 11 - 230. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol. 8, Budapest.
  • 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
  • Speight, M. C. D. 2024. Species accounts of European Syrphidae, 2024. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera), Vol. 115, 381 pp., Syrph the Net publications, Dublin.