Platycheirus beringiensis Barkalov & Mutin, sp. n. ...

• Main Authors: Barkalov, Anatolij V., Mutin, Valerij A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae; Platycheirus; Platycheirus beringiensis; Anadyr; Anadyr'; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6133315; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6133315

Platycheirus beringiensis Barkalov & Mutin, sp. n. (figs 3B, 5A–F) Type material. HOLOTYPE, ♂, labeled: Russia: Chukotka, lower reaches of river Anadyr, 64,83° N, 175,96° E, 5 m above sea level, 18.0 7.2013, leg. A. Barkalov, coll. SZM. Paratypes: Russia: 1♂ 7♀, same place as holotype, 18– 29.07.2013, leg. A. Barkalov, coll. SZM; 1♀, same place as holotype, 30.0 7.2013, leg. V. Zinchenko, coll. SZM; 4♂ 17♀, same place as holotype, 18– 30.07.2013, leg. V. Mutin, coll. Valerij Mutin. Diagnosis. This species is similar to P. immarginatus Zetterstedt, but differs by its larger size, darker colour of abdomen and by the hairs on the male legs: the mid-tibia is without long dense pale hairs (fig. 5C), and the apex of the mid-femur is without a pair of curved long hairs (fig. 5D). Description. Male. Body length 7.5–8.0 mm, wing length 6.2–7.0 mm. Head: Face with strong black hairs, longer and denser in lower part, and covered with rather dense grey or golden tomentum, except the shining epistoma laterally and ... : Published as part of Barkalov, Anatolij V. & Mutin, Valerij A., 2014, Two new species of Syrphidae (Diptera) from Chukotka (Northern Russian Far East), pp. 285-292 in Zootaxa 3846 (2) on pages 290-292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/225452 ...