Merodon murorum, Fabricius, 1794

Likov, Laura, Vujić, Ante, Radenković, Snežana, Zorić, Ljiljana Šašić, Djan, Mihajla, Jordaens, Kurt & Mudri-Stojnić, Sonja, 2025, Two new hoverfly species of the Merodon desuturinus lineage (Diptera: Syrphidae: Merodontini), European Journal of Taxonomy 987, pp. 26-60 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.987.2857
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D476F215-512D-4E4A-B4A4-E04B42125765
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15213881
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9733C848-F77D-FFC2-FF0A-EF2BFC50A8EE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Merodon murorum
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Diagnosis of the murorum View in CoL species group

Species without patch of dense yellow pile on metatrochanter, present in melanocerus species group.

Identification

Vujić et al. (2018) recently revised these species groups and provided an identification key for the desuturinus lineage, including the M. murorum species group.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Syrphidae
SubFamily	Eristalinae
Tribe	Merodontini
Genus	Merodon

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