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Issue: Vol. 5506 No. 3: 9 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.3
Page range: 350-368
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A new species of Alipumilio Shannon, 1927 (Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of the male of A. avispas Vockeroth, 1964 and A. femoratus Shannon, 1927

Universidad de la Amazonia; Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia -GIEU-; Laboratorio de Entomología; Florencia; Caquetá; Colombia
Museum Koenig Bonn; Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels; Adenauerallee 127; D-53113 Bonn; Germany; División de Entomología; Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO); Quito; Ecuador
Universidad de la Amazonia; Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia -GIEU-; Laboratorio de Entomología; Florencia; Caquetá; Colombia
Diptera hoverflies Ecuador Peru Neotropics male description identification key

Abstract

Alipumilio Shannon, 1927 is a flower fly genus endemic to the New World, comprising five described species. In the present study we describe Alipumulio aureus sp. nov. from the Colombian Amazon region. This is the first record of this genus from Colombia. Additionally, the male of A. avispas Vockeroth, 1964 is described from Peru and the male of A. femoratus Shannon, 1927 is described from new material collected in Ecuador. Moreover, we provide an identification key to all the Alipumilio species and a species distribution map.

 

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