Merodon telmateia Hurkmans

Vujić, Ante, Radenković, Snežana, Ačanski, Jelena, Grković, Ana, Taylor, Mike, Şenol, Serdar Gökhan & Hayat, Rüstem, 2015, Revision of the species of the Merodon nanus group (Diptera: Syrphidae) including three new species, Zootaxa 4006 (3), pp. 439-462 : 452

Merodon telmateia Hurkmans

Diagnosis. All tarsi pale (if darker, always uniformly colored; except in some specimens from Mugla mountain in Turkey, which may have dark apical two tarsomeres). Male genitalia: posterior lobe of the surstylus relatively small, with wide rounded tip slightly pointed anteriorly and the posterior margin more or less straight; ventral margin of surstylus slightly concave, not S-shaped ( Fig. 11 A). Hypandrium tapering towards sharp apex ( Figs. 7 D, 11B), contrary to all other species of group; inner processes of hypandrium settled in the apical 1/4 ( Fig. 11 B: ih); aedeagal box elongated, about half the length of hypandrium ( Fig. 11 B: ab).

Type material. HOLOTYPE: Turkey: ♂, Kars, Sarıkamış, Kars Stream, 30.vi. to 7.vii.1986 ( RMNH). PARATYPES: Turkey: Kars, 2 ♀, 25 km W from Sarıkamış, 6.vii.1985 ( TAU), 2♀, 5 km E from Sarıkamış, Kars Stream, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 ( ZHMB), ♀, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 ( RMNH), ♂, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 (M.H. coll.), ♀, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 ( NHMW).

Additional material. Greece: Samos, ♂, Ambelos, near Agios Ioannis, 15.v.2010, near Manolates, ♂, 14.v.2010, 4 ♂, 2 ♀, 15.v.2010, ♂, ♀, 8.vi.2010, ♂, Pyrgos, 8.vi.2012 ( FSUNS); Israel: ♀, Galilee, Kfar Shamai, 27.v.1980 ( TAU); Pakistan: 2 ♀, Makri ( ZHMB); Russia: ♂, Kabardino-Balkar, Khulamo-Bezengiyevskiy Rayon, 8.viii.2000 ( SZMN); Turkey: Bayburt, Kop mountain pass, 2 ♂, 20.vii.1989, ♂, Agri, ♂, Patnos, ♀, Artvin, 5 km S from Kılıçkaya, ♀, Ardahan, 20.vii.1977, 3 ♀, Bayburt, Demirözü, 23.vii.1991, ♂, 4 ♀, 30.vii.1991, ♀, 4.vi.1992, ♂, 30.vii.1992, 2 ♂, Demirözü, Eymir village, 6.viii.1992, Kop Mountain, 12 ♂, 12 ♀, 28.vi.1990, 13 ♂, 14 ♀, 10.viii.1991, 4 ♀, 12.vii.1992, ♂, ♀, 15.vii.1992, 7 ♂, 7 ♀, 12.viii.1992, ♂, ♀, throughout river, 21.vi.1992 ( EMIT), Çankırı, Yumaklı village, 2 ♂, 22.vii.1997 ( FSUNS), ♀, Erzurum, Çat, Çirişli pass, 22.vi.1987, ♂, Alaybeyi village, 11.vii.1990, ♀, Aşkale, Kop Mountain, 25.vi.1990, ♂, ♀, Şehitlik fountain, 20.vii.2005, ♀, Pırnakapan, 28.vi.1990 ( EMIT), ♂, Ilıca, Atlıkonak village, 12.vii.1997 ( RMNH), 13 ♂, 28 ♀, 11.vi.2000, 2 ♀, Karagöbek Mountain, 5.vii.1989 ( EMIT), ♂, Kargapazarı Mountains, ♂, Pasinler, Rabat ♂, Pass SW from Oltu ( RMNH), ♂, Palandöken Mountain, 17.viii.1988, ♀, Kümbet village, 11.vii.1990, ♀, Özbek village, 11.vii.1990, ♂, Pazaryolu, 18.vi.1994 ( EMIT), Şenkaya, 2♂, ♀, 14.vii.1997, ( RMNH), 2 ♀, 3.vii.1990, ♂, 7.viii.1988, Turnalı, 2 ♂,♀ 2.vii.1990, 4♂, 5♀ 3.vii.1990, ♀, 25.vi.1991 ( EMIT), ♀, 20.vi.1997 ( FSUNS), ♀, Tekman, 30.vi.1997, ♂, Tortum, 10.viii.1988 ( EMIT), ♂, Yumaklı, ♂, Umudum ( RMNH), ♂, Şehitlik Fountain, 20.vii.2005 ( FSUNS), Kars, ♂, 5 km E from Sarıkamış, Kars Stream, ♂, 8 km W from Sarıkamış, ♂, Handere, 20 km W from Sarıkamış, ♂, Soğanlı, W from Sarıkamış, ♂,Yeniköy ( RMNH), Marmaris, ♂, ( FSUNS), 2 ♀, ( ZHMB), Muğla, ♂, Köyceğiz, ( RMNH), ♂, Kale, 18.vi.1998 ( FSUNS), ♂, 3♀, “Lamnan Stream”, 1.vi.2000 (M.R. coll.), near Çakmak, 10 ♂, 15 ♀, 6.v.2014, 3 ♀, 6.iii.2014 ( FSUNS), ♂, Reşadiye Yarimadası, 01.vi.2000, (V.W. coll.), ♂, Pamphylia (Antalya), Murtiçi 25 km S from Akseki, 1.vi.1991 ( ZMC), Rize, 3 ♂, 8 ♀, İkizdere, Ovit Mountaion, 29.vii.2000 ( EMIT), ♀, Artvin, Maedow above Ardanuç, 23.vi.1999 (WML).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Apical part of hypandrium, anterior view. A. Merodon neonanus sp. n.; B. M. kopensis sp. n.; C. M. rasicus sp. n.; D. M. telmateia; x—inner edge of the apical part of the hypandrium; ih—inner processes of the hypandrium.

FIGURE 11. Male genitalia of Merodon telmateia, lateral view. A. epandrium; B. hypandrium; ab—aedeagal box; n—notch on theca to which is attached the aedeagal apodeme; ih—inner processes of the hypandrium.