Merodon aureus, SUBGROUP

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 : 983

MERODON AUREUS SUBGROUP 983

Symbols: ** ecological niches are significantly (** P ≤ 0.01) more similar or different than expected by chance. Abbreviations: NS, non-significant; SD, standard deviation.

Based on the results of integrative taxonomic studies, three taxa belong to this subgroup: two complexes ( Merodon aureus complex and M. unicolor complex) and one species M. pumilus Macquart in Lucas, 1849.