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Revision of the genus Pelecocera Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from France: taxonomy, ecology and distribution

3 le Pujol, 66730 Sournia, France.
Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie (IMBE), Case 421, Aix-Marseille Univ CNRS IRD Avignon Univ, 13397 Marseille cedex 20, France
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Building, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada.
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Building, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada.
Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie (IMBE), Case 421, Aix-Marseille Univ CNRS IRD Avignon Univ, 13397 Marseille cedex 20, France
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Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie (IMBE), Case 421, Aix-Marseille Univ CNRS IRD Avignon Univ, 13397 Marseille cedex 20, France
Diptera Identification key new synonym description new species Rhingiini Chamaesyrphus

Abstract

The occurrence and distribution of the various species of the genus Pelecocera Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) occurring in France are revised and a new species, Pelecocera garrigae Lair & Nève, 2022 sp. nov., is described from Mediterranean France. Distribution and ecological data of the six French species of Pelecocera are provided and an identification key is given to all these species. Sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) from all European Pelecocera species support the morphological species concept, except for Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817). The binomen Pelecocera lugubris Perris, 1839 is recovered to name the Pelecocera lusitanica (Mik, 1898) of authors in France.

 

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