Review of the Merodon albifasciatus Macquart species complex (Diptera: Syrphidae): the nomenclatural type located and its provenance discussed

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Título: Review of the Merodon albifasciatus Macquart species complex (Diptera: Syrphidae): the nomenclatural type located and its provenance discussed
Autor/es: Vujić, Ante | Ståhls, Gunilla | Ačanski, Jelena | Rojo, Santos | Pérez-Bañón, Celeste | Radenković, Snezana
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Bionomía, Sistemática e Investigación Aplicada de Insectos Dípteros e Himenópteros
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales | Universidad de Alicante. Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad
Palabras clave: Integrative taxonomy | mtDNA COI sequences | Merodon luteofasciatus sp. nov. | Merodon neofasciatus sp. nov. | Merodon fractipes | Nomen dubium
Área/s de conocimiento: Zoología
Fecha de publicación: 17-ene-2018
Editor: Magnolia Press
Cita bibliográfica: Zootaxa. 2018, 4374(1): 25-48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.2
Resumen: The Palaearctic Merodon geniculatus species group (Diptera, Syrphidae: Merodontini) currently comprises six Western Mediterranean species and four species with Eastern Mediterranean distribution. One of this group species, Merodon albifasciatus Macquart, 1842, is the only Merodon species listed from the Oriental Region. We discovered the lost holotype, which fit morphologically with European Merodon females of the M. albifasciatus species complex confirmed here and that occurs in the Palaearctic region. An integrative approach to the taxonomy of M. albifasciatus based on morphological and molecular evidences revealed the existence of two additional closely-related species in the Eastern Mediterranean area, M. luteofasciatus Vujić, Radenković & Ståhls sp. nov. and M. neofasciatus Ståhls & Vujić sp. nov.. The females of these three species can only be separated by molecular and distributional data. With the aim of stabilising species concepts within the complex, the taxon distributed in mainland Greece, including the Peloponnese was associated to the old female holotype of M. albifasciatus. The identity of Merodon fractipes Paramonov, described from Rhodes Island (Greece) as subspecies of M. geniculatus Strobl in Czerny & Strobl, could not be resolved as the type specimen is lost. Thus the name M. fractipes is suppressed as nomen dubium. We discuss the distribution of the species of M. albifasciatus complex, identify host plants of M. neofasciatus, and provide an identification key to males of Eastern Mediterranean species of Merodon geniculatus group.
Patrocinador/es: This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund -ESF), Greek national funds (Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework, NSRF - Research Funding Program: THALES, Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund), the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (projects OI173002, III43002), the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development, Vojvodina (project "Genetic resources of agroecosystems in Vojvodina and sustainable agriculture") and Carl Cedercreutz Foundation, Helsinki, Finland.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/87071
ISSN: 1175-5326 (Print) | 1175-5334 (Online)
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.2
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: © 2018 Magnolia Press
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.2
Aparece en las colecciones:INV - BIONOMIA - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers

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