Eosphaerophoria Frey 1946
Creators: name: Mengual, Ximo
name: Ghorpadé, Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Eosphaerophoria

description: Key to species of <i>Eosphaerophoria</i> 1. Notopleuron with obtuse protuberance posterolaterally (Fig. 28)............... <b>4</b> – Notopleuron swollen but not produced posterolaterally (Fig. 29), or at least protuberance not as evident as in Figure 28............................................... <b>2</b> 2. 2nd abdominal tergum black dorsally; 5th abdominal tergum with 2 lateral subtriangular yellow maculae (Fig. 38); scutum with lateral yellow vitta behind transverse suture narrower, with dorsal margin not in line with the dorsal margin of yellow notopleuron (Fig. 29) (Malaysia).............. <i>brunettii</i> – 2nd abdominal tergum black with dorsomedial yellow macula; 5th abdominal tergum with yellow fascia (Figs 30, 31); scutum with lateral yellow vitta behind transverse suture with dorsal margin in line with the dorsal margin of yellow notopleuron (Fig. 28)...................................................................... <b>3</b> 3. 1st abdominal tergum yellow with posterodistal narrow black fascia (Fig. 30); frons black with 2 basolateral yellow areas on ventral 3/4, about 1/3 of frons width each (Figs 26, 27) (Nepal).................................................... <i>punctata</i> – 1st abdominal tergum yellow with 2 subtriangular large black maculae on posterior margin (Fig. 31); frons yellow on ventral 4/5, black on dorsal 1/5 (Vietnam).................................................................................. <i>symmetrica</i> 4. Scutellum with rounded or pointed posterior margin, but without tooth on medial section (Figs 28, 29, 30)................................................................. <b>7</b> – Scutellum with tooth on medial posterior margin (Fig. 4).......................... <b>5</b> 5. 1st abdominal tergum yellow with posteromedial narrow black fascia (Fig. 32); face yellow with medial black vitta (Indonesia, Halmahera Island)....................................................................................................... <i>hermosa</i> – 1st abdominal tergum black dorsomedially, yellow on anterior and lateral margins; face entirely yellow...................................................................... <b>6</b> 6. 2nd abdominal tergum black, yellow on anterobasal margins only (Fig. 33); 5th abdominal tergum with 2 small lateral yellow maculae (Fig. 33) (Sri Lanka)........................................................................................ <i>dentiscutellata</i> – 2nd abdominal tergum black with basal yellow fascia with a posterior median triangular projection, narrowly separated from anterior margin by a black fascia (Fig. 34); 5th abdominal tergum with subbasal yellow fascia (Fig. 34) (Papua New Guinea, Normanby Island)....................................... <i>adornata</i> 7. 2nd abdominal tergum with yellow fascia on anterior 1/2, about 1/4 of tergum length (Fig. 35); 3rd and 4th abdominal terga with basal yellow fascia broader, about 1/2 of tergum length (Fig. 35); 5th abdominal tergum with anterior yellow fascia. Scutellum triangular with tip pointed, not rounded or produced into a tooth (Papua New Guinea, New Ireland Island)............... <i>luteofasciata</i> – 2nd abdominal tergum withour yellow fascia, entirely black dorsally or with central yellow macula; 3rd and 4th terga usually with narrower yellow fascia but variable................................................................................................ <b>8</b> 8. 5th abdominal tergum with 2 lateral small yellowish maculae (Figs 39–43)..... <b>10</b> – 5th abdominal tergum black with anterior yellow fascia (Figs 36, 37)........ <b>9</b> 9. Face with a medial broad black vitta; 2nd tergum black dorsally, without central yellow macula (Fig. 36) (Papua New Guinea, Indonesia – New Guinea island)....................................................................................... <i>nigrovittata</i> – Face yellow (Fig. 24); 2nd tergum black dorsally with central elongated yellow macula (Fig. 37) (Papua New Guinea).......................................... <i>bifida</i> 10. Frons yellow on basoventral 4/5 with very thin medial black vitta that may or may not reach antennal bases, black on dorsal 1/5 (Fig. 20). Face yellow. Notopleuron slightly produced posterolaterally (less evident than in Fig. 28) (Vietnam, Malaysia)................................................................. <i>vietnamensis</i> – Frons black, yellow on basolateral 2/3 with medial broad black vitta; at antennal bases, central black area is about 1/3–1/2 of the face width (Fig. 19). Male: face yellow. Female: face yellow with medial black vitta. Notopleuron clearly produced posterolaterally (Fig. 28) (Philippines, Thailand).................................................................................................................. <i>marginata</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Mengual, Ximo &amp; Ghorpadé, Kumar, 2010, The flower fly genus Eosphaerophoria Frey (Diptera, Syrphidae), pp. 39-80 in ZooKeys 33 (33)</i> on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.33.298, http://zenodo.org/record/576598