Merodon aureus, SUBGROUP SENSU SASIC ET AL. (2016)

Vujić, Ante, Zorić, Ljiljana Šašić, Ačanski, Jelena, Likov, Laura, Radenković, Snežana, Djan, Mihajla, Milić, Dubravka, Šebić, Anja, Ranković, Milica & Khaghaninia, Samad, 2020, Hide-and-seek with hoverflies: Merodon aureus - a species, a complex or a subgroup?, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190, pp. 974-1001 : 982

MERODON AUREUS SUBGROUP SENSU ŠAŠIĆ ET AL. (2016)

Diagnosis: Species with golden reflection and rough punctate scutum and terga ( Fig. 11). Mesonotum (in both sexes) and terga (in male) covered with only pale pile, reddish to yellow-grey. Tibiae and tarsi predominantly black ( Fig. 11B). Terga uniformly dark.