Merodon puniceus Vujić, Radenković, and Pérez-Ba˜nón, 2011

Zorić, Ljiljana Šašić, Ačanski, Jelena, Vujić, Ante, Ståhls, Gunilla, Djan, Mihajla & Radenković, Snežana, 2020, Resolving the taxonomy of the Merodon dobrogensis species subgroup (Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of a new species, The Canadian Entomologist 152 (1), pp. 36-59 : 51-52

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2019.72
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15746528
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scientific name	Merodon puniceus Vujić, Radenković, and Pérez-Ba˜nón, 2011
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Merodon puniceus Vujić, Radenković, and Pérez-Ba˜nón, 2011 View in CoL

Merodon sp. nova 4: Ståhls et al. 2009: 1436–1437. Merodon puniceus Radenković et al. 2011: 48 .

Type locality. Greece: Lesvos .

Type specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, Greece: Lesvos , Agiassos, 14.x. 2005, 760 m, C. Perez-Banón ˜( MAUA 0023677 ) . Paratypes: Greece: Lesvos: 1♀, Agiassos , 8.x. 2005, 760 m, C. Perez-Banón ˜( MAUA 0023663 ) ; 1♂, Polichnitos , 24.x.2008, 37 m, A. Vujić ( FSUNS 04448 View Materials ) ; 1♂, River Almiropotamos , 1.7 km WWN Vatera, from fennel, 8.x.2008, 55 m, M. Hull ( WML 1771 ) .

Additional material. Greece: Lesvos , Agiassos : 1♀, vi.2005, C. Perez-Banón ˜, S. Rojo, G. Ståhls ( FSUNS) ; 2♀♀, 10.iv.2007, T. Petanidou ( CEUA) ; 1♂, 23.iv.2007, C. Perez-Banón ˜( CEUA) ; 1♀, 27.iv.2007, T. Petanidou ( CEUA) . Turkey: 1♂, Mountain near Izmir, 16.ix.2013, A. Vujić ( FSUNS AL29 ) ; Bozdag Mountain : 2♂♂, Sart to Bozdag 1, 16.ix.2013, 1320 m, A. Vujić ( FSUNS AJ8 , AJ13 ) ; 4♂♂, Bozdag 2, after Allahdiyen , 12.x.2014, 1070 m, A. Vujić, S. Šimić, S. Radenković ( FSUNS 08675 View Materials , 08677 View Materials , 08682 View Materials , 08687 View Materials ) ; 1♂, Bozdag 3, 12.x.2014, 1229 m, A. Vujić, S. Šimić, S. Radenković ( FSUNS 08668 View Materials ) .

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Diagnosis. Differs from Merodon dobrogensis by the infuscation of the wings (much darker in M. puniceus and lighter in M. dobrogensis ; see Figs. 19–20), by morphometric characters of wing and male genitalia ( Figs. 2, 7), distribution in western Anatolia and Lesvos Island ( Figs. 21–22). The two species differ also based on COI and COI ND4 tree topologies ( Figs. 11–12).

Natural history. Preferred environment: forest; small, open areas in Castanea Miller ( Fagaceae ) and evergreen Quercus Linnaeus and Pinus Linnaeus ( Pinaceae ) forests. Flowers visited: Prospero autumnale , Foeniculum vulgare Miller ( Apiaceae ). Flight period: spring (April–June) and autumn (September–October). Larva unknown (Speight 2018).