Flukea vockerothi Etcheverry 1966
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
Flukea
Flukea vockerothi

description: Flukea vockerothi Etcheverry, 1966
Figs 74–77
Flukea vockerothi Etcheverry, 1966: 3
Type locality and data. “ Chillán, Chile ” (T, ♂, MEUC).
Material examined. Maule: 1♂, Tregualemu, 02.XII.1989, Leg. C. González (IEUMCE); Ñuble: 2♂, 2♀, Chillán, 17.XI.1965, Leg. Casals (MZUC); Biobío: 1♂, Los Ángeles, 02.XI.1986, Leg. C. Bocaz (UFRO); 2♂, Cordillera de Pemehue, 20–31.I.1946, Leg.Peña (CNC, Etcheverry 1966); La Araucanía: 1♀, La Esperanza, Mininco, 06.XI.1991, Leg. J. Solervicens (IEUMCE); 1♀, Termas Rio Blanco, 19.II.1973, Leg. J. Herrera (IEUMCE); 1♀, Cherquenco, 17.XI.1978, Leg. NN (MNHNCL); 1♀, Villarrica, -39.2820, -72.2307, 26.II.2016, phot. col. Soledad Gaete (CSP); Los Ríos: 1♀, Valdivia, 30.I.1992, Leg. S. Krause (UACH); 1♂, Corral, 27.XII.1981, Leg. W. Fischer (UACH); 1♂, 1♀, La Unión, I.1996, Leg. A. Ugarte (MEUC); Los Lagos: 2♀, Río GolGol, Osorno, 10.II.1957 (CNC; Etcheverry, 1966); 2♀, Parque Nacional Puyehue, 7.II.2018, Leg. J.H., A.W. and A.M. Skevington (CNC); Aysén: 1♀, Queulat National Park, 02.VII.2006, Leg. Alejandro Vera (MNHNCL); 2♂, 2♀, Puerto Cisnes, 09.I.1967, Leg. Zapata (IEUMCE); Río Mañihuales, 26–28.I.1961, Leg. Peña (Etcheverry 1966); 1♂, Puerto Aysén, 24–26.I.1961 (CNC; Etcheverry 1966).
References. Etcheverry, 1966: 3, figs 1–35 (desc.); Thompson, 1972b: 163, figs 65–66 (male genitalia), 65s (sternum), 65t (tergum), 66a (aedeagus and apodeme), 66e (ejaculatory apodeme) (Milesiinae rev.); Thompson et al., 1976: 118 (cat.); Thompson, 1999a: 335 (key).
World distribution. Chile.
Chilean distribution. From Maule to Aysén region (Fig. 79).
Altitudinal range. From coastal to precordillera ecosystems 5– 2,000 m.a.s.l.
Biology and notes. Known as the largest flower fly of Chile, Flukea vockerothi is mainly associated with native forests. This fly has been observed feeding on Eucryphia cordifolia in Villarrica (Soledad Gaete, CSP record; Figs 74–75) and Foeniculum vulgare Mill. (Jorge de la Torre, CSP record). Recently, females have been observed ovipositing thanks to citizen science. The eggs are oval, white but darker in the apices. The observed female laid the eggs in small groups (15–20, even more) on the bark and leaves of a moss-covered pine surrounded by native forest with many native dead logs in the floor (Fig. 77). Thompson (1972) mentioned that type specimen is lost. The genus name, as well as the specific epithet, commemorates Dr. C. L. Fluke and J. R. Vockeroth, respectively, acknowledged entomologists and specialists in Syrphidae (Etcheverry 1966).
Conservation status. LC; EOO = 111,220 km 2; AOO = 72 km 2 and 17 localities (or subpopulations).
Subtribe Milesiina
Genus Hemixylota Shannon & Aubertin, 1933
Hemixylota Shannon & Aubertin 1933: 148. Type-species, Hemixylota varipes Shannon & Aubertin 1933 (ori. des.).
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 pages 55-57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4693464