Merodon dobrogensis Bradescu, 1982

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2019.72
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scientific name	Merodon dobrogensis Bradescu, 1982
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Merodon dobrogensis Bradescu, 1982 View in CoL

Merodon dobrogensis Bradescu, 1982: 13 View in CoL .

Type locality. Romania: Plateau of Dobrudja , Hagieni (100 m) .

Type specimens examined. Holotype: male, 27.viii.1977, ( MGAB) ; Paratype: female 30.viii.1977, V. Bradescu ( FSUNS).

Material examined: Greece. Evros , Mesembria: 6♂♂, 2.x. 2011, 127 m, Michael de Coursy ( MCWC T1 - T3 , T14 - T16 ) ; 3♂♂, 8.ix. 2013, 127 m ( FSUNS AL47 View Materials , AL49 View Materials , AL53 View Materials ) ; Romania: Mangalia : 15♂♂, near Hagieni, 28.ix.2014, 58 m, A. Vujić, J. Ačanski, L. Šašić Zorić ( FSUNS 08498-08512 View Materials ) ; 1♂, near Liman , 28.ix.2014, 30 m, A. Vujić, J. Ačanski, L. Šašić Zorić ( FSUNS 08497 View Materials ) ; 5♂♂, near Albes ,ti, 29.ix.2014, 50 m, A. Vujić, J. Ačanski, L. Šašić Zorić ( FSUNS 08493-08496 View Materials , 08513 View Materials ) .

Diagnosis. Differs from Merodon puniceus by the infuscation of the wings (lighter in M. dobrogensis , and much darker in M. puniceus ; see Figs. 19–20), molecular data (COI and ND4 gene sequence variability; see Figs. 11–12), by morphometric characters of wing and male genitalia ( Figs. 2, 7), and distribution. It is geographically separated from M. puniceus , being distributed in southeastern Europe near the Black Sea and Aegean Sea ( Fig. 21).

Natural history. Preferred environment: forest; small, open areas maintained by goat grazing, in evergreen Quercus coccinea Münchhausen ( Fagaceae ) matorral on limestone. Flowers visited: Prospero autumnale (Linnaeus) Speta ( Asparagaceae ). Flight period: August to October. Larvae unknown (Speight 2018).