Sphegina kumaoniensis

Sphegina kumaoniensis is a species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae found in India, Thailand, and northeast Myanmar. It's characterized by a convex dorsal line of frontal prominence that ends clearly before the ocellar triangle as well as a mouthedge less strongly projecting, vibrissal angle less protruding or equal with the frontal prominence.[2]

Sphegina kumaoniensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Brachyopini
Subtribe: Spheginina
Genus: Sphegina
Species:
S. kumaoniensis
Binomial name
Sphegina kumaoniensis
Mutin, 1998[1]

Etymology

The name comes the Kumaon division where it was originally discovered.

S. kumaoniensis is very similar to S. uncinata and it's difficult to tell the two apart without reference to the male genitalia, in which they can be distinguished by S. kumaoniensis' horn-like process of the baso-dorsal superior lobe (absent in S. uncinata), broad and latero-ventrally curved apical part of the superior lobe (in S. uncinata it's narrow and dorsally curved), and surstylus narrowed on the apical half with a concave medial margin (in S. uncinata it's short and evenly broad from dorsal view). S. kumaoniensis and S. uncinata both differ from other species in their genus by their dark pollinose brownish colour and their short, narrow abdomens.[3]

References
  1. Mutin, V.A. (1998). "Four new species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Russia and India". Dipterological Research. 9: 237–241.
  2. Steenis, J. van; Hippa, H.; Mutin, V.A. (2018). "Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 489: 1–198. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  3. Hippa, H.; Steenis, J. van; Mutin, V.A. (2015). "The genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a biodiversity hotspot: the thirty-six sympatric species in Kambaiti, Myanmar". Zootaxa. 3954: 1–67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3954.1.1. PMID 25947834. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
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