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Eristalis pertinax

Description

Eristalis pertinax (Scopoli, 1763)

Fig. 2

Examined material. IRAN, Mazandaran province: 2 ♂ and 2 ♀, Ramsar, Eshkatechal, 36°51′N 50°28′E, 1200 m, 27.vii.2005, leg. E. Gilasian.

Remarks. This species is distinguished from other Eristalis species by the following combination of characters: bee-like overall appearance; eye uniformly pilose; face shiny black medially, facial black vitta less than 1/3 as wide as face; antenna brownish-black; arista pile more than 3 times longer than its basal diameter; ground colour of thorax visibly seen through thin pilosity; katepimeron bare; apical 1/3–1/2 of fore and hind tibiae black; fore and mid tarsi entirely yellowish orange; male genitalia as in Hippa et al. (2001: figure 19). This species is widespread in Europe and Transcaucasia (Peck 1988; Speight 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Gilasian, Ebrahim, Vujić, Ante, Hauser, Martin & Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad, 2017, New data on the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Iran, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 27-50 in Zootaxa 4303 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/840454

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2005-07-27
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Eristalis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Scopoli
Species
pertinax
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-07-27
Taxonomic concept label
Eristalis pertinax (Scopoli, 1763) sec. Gilasian, Vujić, Hauser & Parchami-Araghi, 2017

References

  • Scopoli, J. A. (1763) Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigene et dirtibuta in ordines, genera, species, varietates methodo Linnaeana. Typis Ioannis Thomae Trattner, Vindobonae [Vienna], 421 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 119976
  • Hippa, H., Nielsen, T. R. & Van Steenis, J. (2001) The West Palaearctic species of the genus Eristalis Latreille (Diptera, Syrphidae). Norwegian Journal of Entomology, 48, 289 - 327.
  • Peck, L. V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Akademia Kiado, Budapest, pp. 11 - 230.