Victoriana melanorrhina
Creators: name: Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M.
name: Riera, Pamela
name: Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura
name: Guzmán, Vicente Valdés
name: Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Victoriana
Victoriana melanorrhina

description: Victoriana melanorrhina (Philippi, 1865)
Figs 206–207
Baccha melanorrhina Philippi, 1865: 749
Baccha felix Shannon, 1927: 30
Type locality and data. “ Valdivia, Chile ” (T, A, MNHNCL).
Material examined. Coquimbo: 1♂, 2♀, Elqui, 11.II.1949, Leg. Cerda (MEUC); 1♂, 1♀, El Naranjo, Tilama, no data, Leg. NN (MEUC); Fundo Agua Amarilla, km 7 north Los Vilos, 8.I.2004, Leg. M.E. Irwin (Liter.); Valparaíso: 1♂, Catapilco, 27.XII.1977, Leg. NN (MNHNCL); 3♂, 2♀, Bosque relicto, Quintero, 13.I.1967, Leg. Vivar (MNHNCL); 1♀, Quebrada Vergara, 28.IX.1964, Leg. Hichins (MNHNCL); 1♂, Quebrada del Soldado, La Calera, 24.XI.1960, Leg. L. Campos (MEUC); 1♀, Las Palmas, Mantagua, 16.III.1967, Leg. Solervicens (MNHNCL); 1♂, Limache, no date, Leg. NN (MEUC); Quilpué (Porter 1921); Metropolitana: 1♂, Lampa, 20.I.1964, Leg. Zapata (IEUMCE); 2♂, Quebrada de la Plata, Maipú, 17.IV.1967, Leg. N. Hichins (MEUC); 1♂, 1♀, El Arrayan, no date, Leg. J. Herrera (IEUMCE); 1♂, Macul, no date, Leg. J. Herrera (IEUMCE); 2♂, 1♀, La Obra, 16.XII.2015, Leg. Rodrigo Barahona-Segovia (PCRBS; MEUC); 2♂, El Canelo, no date, Leg. Montero (IEUMCE); 1♂, El Volcán, 10.I.1964, Leg. Pino (IEUMCE); Maule: 2♂, Fundo Malcho, XII.1957, Leg. Pino (IEUMCE); Ñuble: 1♂, Las Trancas, 15.IV.1966, Leg. NN (MEUC); La Araucanía: 1♂, Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta, 15.I.1978, Leg. NN (MNHNCL); Los Lagos: 3♂, 2♀, Pucatrihue, 4–21.II.1967, Leg. L.E. Peña (MEUC); 1♂, Frutillar, 1.II.1966, Leg. J. Silva (MNHNCL) (Fig. 17); 1♂, Lago Chapo, 16.II.1962, Leg. M. Elgueta (MNHNCL).
References. Philippi, 1865: 749 (desc.); Williston, 1886: 314 (cat.); Reed, 1888: 299 (cat.); Kertész, 1910: 162 (cat.); Porter, 1921: 447 (cat., dist. & notes); Shannon & Aubertin, 1933: 135, 136 (desc. & key); Stuardo, 1946: 124 (cat.); Hull, 1949c: 107 (desc.); Fluke, 1956: 253 (cat.); Etcheverry, 1963: 20 (cat.); Thompson et al., 1976: 22 (cat.); Camousseight, 2005: 94 (cat.); Mengual et al., 2012: 550 (phylogey); Mengual et al., 2012: 194 (phylogeny); Miranda et al., 2016: 166 (phylogeny); Mengual et al., 2018b: 12 (key & desc.).
World distribution. Chile.
Chilean distribution. From Coquimbo to Los Lagos region (Fig. 200).
Altitudinal range. From coastal to precordillera ecosystems (0–1,600 m.a.s.l.).
Biology and notes. Porter (1921) recorded that collected specimens by professor Stuardo visited flowers of Aristolochia chilensis. This flower fly species has also been observed visiting M. planipes (Rodrigo Barahona- Segovia, pers. obs.).
Conservation status. LC; EOO = 152,855 km 2, AOO = 92 km 2, 20 subpopulations and 21 localities.
description: Published as part of Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia, 2021, Updating the knowledge of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Chile: Illustrated catalog, extinction risk and biological notes, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 4959 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4693464