Mimocalla Hull 1943
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Genus Mimocalla Hull, 1943 stat. rev.
Figs 1, 72, 74, 76.
Mimocalla Hull, 1943b: 46, as a subgenus of Baccha. Type species: Baccha capitata Loew, 1863 (original designation). Ocyptamus capitatus species group. Thompson (1981).
Ocyptamus (Mimocalla). Thompson & Zumbado (2000), Mengual et al. (2012).
Diagnosis. Sinuate vein R4+5 and sigmoid vein M1. Strongly petiolate abdomen. Enlarged male genitalia including a modified 4th sternum. Frons usually prominent and antenna short. Metacoxa and metatrochanter with thick and dense pile.
Biology. Immatures of the genus Mimocalla feed on scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccidae and Diaspididae) and whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) (Thompson & Zumbado 2000; Rojo et al. 2003).
Comments. One of the largest syrphine flies, this genus can be recognized by the distinct sinuous R4+5 and M1 veins plus the dense pile on the metacoxa and metatrochanter.
Species list (7): M. bonariensis (Bréthes, 1905), M. capitata (Loew, 1863), M. erebus (Hull, 1943e), M. gigantea (Schiner, 1868), M. nymphaea (Hull, 1943f), M. tristani (Zumbado in Thompson & Zumbado, 2000), M. willistoni (Thompson in Thompson et al., 1976).
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- Scientific name authorship
- Hull
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Diptera
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- Syrphidae
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- Mimocalla
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- genus
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- Mimocalla Hull, 1943 sec. Mengual, Miranda & Thompson, 2018
References
- Hull, F. M. (1943 b) The New World species of the genus Baccha. Entomologica Americana, 23, 42 - 99, 10 pls.
- Loew, H. (1863) Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria tertia. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 7, 1 - 55. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18630070104
- Thompson, F. C. (1981) The flower flies of the West Indies (Diptera: Syrphidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 9, 1 - 200.
- Mengual, X., Stahls, G. & Rojo, S. (2012) Is the mega-diverse genus Ocyptamus (Diptera, Syrphidae) monophyletic? Evidence from molecular characters including the secondary structure of 28 S rRNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62, 191 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2011.09.014
- Rojo, S., Gilbert, F., Marcos-Garcia, M. A, Nieto, J. M. & Mier, M. P. (2003) A world review of predatory hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae: Syrphinae) and their prey. Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO), Alicante, 278 pp.
- Brethes, J. (1905) Insectos de Tucuman. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, Series 3, 4, 329 - 347.
- Hull, F. M. (1943 e) New species of Baccha and related flies. Entomological News, 54, 135 - 140.
- Schiner, I. R. (1868) Diptera. In: Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge), Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Fol. 2. Band 1. Abtheilung B. Kaiserlich-konigliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Karl Gerold's Sohn, Wien, pp. i - vi + 1 - 388, 4 pls.
- Hull, F. M. (1943 f) New species of syrphid flies in the National Museum. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 33, 39 - 43.
- Thompson, F. C., Vockeroth, J. R. & Sedman, Y. S. (1976) Family Syrphidae. A catalogue of the Diptera of the American South of the United States, 46, 1 - 195. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 49898