Quichuana hermosa Hull CNC 1951
Creators: name: Ricarte, Antonio
name: Marcos-García, M. Ángeles
name: Hancock, E. G.
name: Rotheray, Graham E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Quichuana
Quichuana hermosa

description: QUICHUANA HERMOSA HULL, 1951: 67   
 Diagnostic features   
Female  
 Head: Brown pollinose frons, with black hairs and, at the eye margins, pale hairs; basoflagellomere oval; bf = 1.2; frontal prominence reddish below and to the sides of the antennae; lower part of frontal prominence thinly white pollinose; white-haired face, with two lateral white pollinose stripes extending from the mouth edge to the frontal prominence (the pollinose stripes extend along the eye margins and taper at the upper end, which connects with the sparse pollinosity of the lower part of the frontal prominence); face with a central, bare, shiny stripe.   
 Thorax: Scutum with two medial, wide, brown pollinose stripes faintly reaching the posterior margin of the scutum; PAPT posterodorsally, NP, and PC with conspicuous tufts of white hairs; brown scutellum, black on lateral corners; scutellum with long pale hairs only; pro- and mesotibia, tarsi, and apex of femora red; metaleg blackish, except for the extreme apices of the femora and tibiae, the tarsus ventrally, and tarsomeres 1–2 dorsally, which are red; legs with pale hairs except for the following areas, which have black hairs – apical half of profemur posteriorly, apical third of metafemur posteriorly and ventrally, and at the apex of metafemur dorsally; wings extensively microtrichose except for some small bare areas in cells BM and CuP, and at base of the anal lobe; wings very lightly brown pigmented anteriorly.   
 Abdomen: Terga II–III each with two lateral red markings, each connecting the anterior and posterior margin in tergum II; tergum III with two additional, narrow, red bands on the posterior margin; tergum IV black; terga II–V extensively coated in brownish pollinosity, except for a posterior band, which is shiny; tergum I with a moustache arrangement of white hairs with a central gap; terga II–IV mainly with white hairs, but with scattered black hairs posteriorly on the following areas – black parts of terga II–III centrally and lateral margins of the posterior half of tergum II; posterior margin of terga II–IV laterally fringed with conspicuous, adpressed, white hairs (Fig. 77); tergum V with long black hairs posteriorly; sterna with long pale hairs centrally.   
Male  
Unknown.  
 Material examined   
 Holotype: f, Holotype Quichuana hermosa Hull (handwritten on a red label)/ Holotype Quichuana hermosa Hull CNC no. 20434 (species name and number handwritten on a red label)/Chanchamayo, Peru, 8-19-48, J. Schunke 1100 m (handwritten) (CNC).   
 Range   
Peru.  
 Taxonomic notes   
 Medium size species (11.4 mm) with broad abdomen. To distinguish Q. hermosa from females of the similar species Q. argentea and Q. fasciata, see ‘Taxonomic notes’ under these species.
description: Published as part of Ricarte, Antonio, Marcos-García, M. Ángeles, Hancock, E. G. & Rotheray, Graham E., 2012, Revision of the New World genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 (Diptera: Syrphidae), including descriptions of 24 new species, pp. 72-131 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 166 (1) on pages 93-94, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00842.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5408533