Myolepta ( Reemer et al. 2004 )

Gilasian, Ebrahim, Reemer, Menno & Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad, 2016, Description of Myolepta pazukii Gilasian & Reemer sp. nov. (Diptera: Syrphidae) with notes on the Iranian species of Myolepta Newman, Zootaxa 4103 (3), pp. 276-282 : 280-281

Addition to the identification key of west Palaearctic Myolepta ( Reemer et al. 2004)

7 Abdominal tergite 3 with a pair of lateral rectangular orange spots reaching posterior margin, tergite 4 entirely black; legs wholly black except for paler basitarsi on mid leg in some teneral specimens; lateral margins of hypandrium in ventral view slightly converging to apex (see Fig. 12e in Reemer et. al. 2004: 576); lateral view of hypandrium as in Fig. 12e in Reemer et. al. 2004: 576; anterior half of mesonotum with erect hairs....................................... M. nigritarsis Coe

- Abdominal tergite 3 with a pair of lateral, triangular orange spots ending short of posterior margin, posterior margin of tergite 4 predominantly orange; basal 1/3–1/2 of all tibiae and two to three basal tarsomeres orange; lateral margins of hypandrium in ventral view nearly parallel or distinctly convexly broadening to apex; anterior half of mesonotum with either erect or appressed hairs...................................................................................... 7a 7a Lateral margins of hypandrium nearly parallel to apex in ventral view; lateral view of hypandrium as in Fig. 6 ; anterior half of mesonotum with erect yellowish-white hairs ( Fig. 2 ); eye contiguity about 1/2 as long as ocellar triangle; arista almost 1.8 times as long as third segment of antenna ( Fig. 4 ).............................. M. pazukii Gilasian & Reemer sp. nov.

- Lateral margins of hypandrium convexly broadening to apex in ventral view (see Fig. 12a in Reemer et al. 2004: 576); lateral view of hypandrium as in Fig. 12a in Reemer et al. 2004: 576; anterior half of mesonotum with appressed golden yellow hairs; eye contiguity about as long as ocellar triangle; arista 2.5 times as long as third segment of antenna............................................................................................ M. carthaginiensis Reemer & Hauser

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 7. Myolepta pazukii Gilasian & Reemer sp. nov. (male holotype). 5. Abdomen, dorsal view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm; 6. Hypandrium, lateral view; 7. Hypandrium, ventral view. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 1 – 4. Myolepta pazukii Gilasian & Reemer sp. nov. (male holotype). 1. Adult, lateral view; 2. Mesonotum, lateral view; 3. Head, lateral view; 4. Head, frontal view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.