Merodon edentulus Macquart, 1855

Vujić, Ante, Radenković, Snežana, Zorić, Ljiljana Šašić, Likov, Laura, Tot, Tamara, Veselić, Sanja & Djan, Mihajla, 2021, Revision of the Merodon bombiformis group (Diptera: Syrphidae) - rare and endemic African hoverflies, European Journal of Taxonomy 755 (1), pp. 88-135 : 120

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scientific name	Merodon edentulus Macquart, 1855
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Merodon edentulus Macquart, 1855 View in CoL nom. dub., stat. rev.

Merodon edentulus Macquart, 1855: 90 View in CoL .

This name was introduced by Macquart (1855) based on a single specimen from South Africa. The type material is lost. Curran (1939) stated that this can scarcely be a Merodon because it is said to have no thorn (lamina) on the metafemur. Type locality is Cape of Good Hope ( RSA) from where no specimen of Merodon was collected. The description is insufficient, even for an identification to the genus level. In the same publication, Macquart (1855) described one other exotic Merodon from South America, Merodon angustiventris Macquart, 1855 which was re-identified as a member of the genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 ( Thompson 1988) . Therefore, we regard the name Merodon edentulus to be a nomen dubium.

References

Curran C. H. 1939. Records and descriptions of African Syrphidae (Diptera). III American Museum Novitates 1025: 1 - 11.

Macquart J. 1855. Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5 e supplement. Memoires de la Societe (royale) des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts a Lille 1 (2): 25 - 156. Also published separately as his Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement V : 5 - 136.

Thompson F. C. 1988. Syrphidae (Diptera) described from unknown localities. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96 (2): 200 - 226.