Syritta vitripennis Bigot, 1885

Steenis, Jeroen Van, 2010, A new species of the genus Syritta Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Syrphidae), with new distributional records of other Syritta species, Norwegian Journal of Entomology 57, pp. 111-119 : 119

Syritta vitripennis Bigot, 1885

This very rare Afrotropical species of the S. vitripennis group (ventral part of katepisternum without pollinosity, sub shiny) is recorded from Zimbabwe for the first time.

Material studied. Zimbabwe, Chirinda forest X.1905 leg. G.A.K. Marshall 1♂ coll. CUMZ

Remarks. New to Zimbabwe

Acknowledgements. I wish to thank the following colleagues for additional material or valuable information: B. Brugge (Amsterdam), Z. Falin (Lawrence), W.A. Foster and R. Stebbings (Cambridge), C.E. Griswold (San Francisco), H. K. Lua ( Singapore), T. Pape and J. Pedersen (Copenhagen), W. van Steenis (Breukelen), R. de Vries (Leiden), N.P. Wyatt (London), J.D. Weintraub (Philadelphia).

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Received: 15 March 2010 Accepted: 28 April 2010