Quichuana ursula, HULL, 1949: 136

Ricarte, Antonio, Marcos-García, M. Ángeles, Hancock, E. G. & Rotheray, Graham E., 2012, Revision of the New World genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 (Diptera: Syrphidae), including descriptions of 24 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 166 (1), pp. 72-131 : 119

QUICHUANA URSULA HULL, 1949: 136

The holotype is a male collected on 4.xii.1947 at Pucallpa , Peru, by Jose Schunke. According to Hull (1949) this specimen was in his collection, but is apparently missing from CNC (J. Skevington, pers. comm.) .

Range

Peru.

Taxonomic notes (based on the description in Hull, 1949)

Quichuana ursula is similar to Q. picadoi , but they can be readily separated by the colour of the pro- and metatibia, which are dark brown in the former and yellow, at least on the basal half, in the latter species. The face is extensively pollinose except for a central stripe, but it also has two indistinct lateral stripes. Although Hull (1949) hypothesized that this could be the male of Q. nigricans , this is unlikely because of the difference in body size ( Q. nigricans , 12 mm, and Q. ursula , 8 mm) and because of other differences, such as the proportional length of the basoflagellomere, both of which were characters highlighted by Hull (1949).