Hyperalonia morio subsp. morio Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Cunha, André Mallemont
name: Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Hyperalonia
Hyperalonia morio
Hyperalonia morio morio fabricius, 1775

description: Hyperalonia morio morio Fabricius, 1775
(Figs. 1–4)
Hyperalonia morio morio Fabricius, 1775: 797; Kertész, 1909: 3; Edwards, 1930: 179; Paramonov, 1931: 64–65; Copello, 1932: 117­120; Stuardo Ortiz, 1946: 96; Hull, 1973: 431; Painter & Painter, 1968: 112; Painter & Painter, 1974: 3; Hall, 1976: 173; Painter et al., 1978: 58; Couri & Lamas, 1994: 120 –121; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 399 –400.
Female: Length: 20.6–24.9 mm. Head width: 3.2–4.2 mm. Thorax width: 5.3–5.7 mm. Abdominal width: 5.1–6.0 tapering to 1.2–1.9 mm on anal segment. Coloration: light brown; cephalic and anal tubercles and abdominal chitinous rods dark brown, darker apically; setae yellowish.
Head. Cephalic tubercles armed with three pairs of spines not fused in an arch; first pair same length as second pair, directed downwards; third pair 1/2 length of first pair, placed laterally on base of second pair (Fig. 1). Central pair of spines with two pairs of setae, first pair on dorsal surface, near its base, second placed laterally (Fig. 1). In ventral view, anterior facial tubercle same length as central pair, with a pair of setae placed laterally (Fig. 4), additional pair posteroventrally (Fig. 1).
Thorax. With four pairs of setae, two pairs on dorsal surface closely placed, two pairs on lateral surface (Fig. 1); prothoracic spiracle spiral shaped, heavily sclerotized, with concavity directed posteriorly, dark brown, raised above surface and located immediately behind head (Fig. 1).
Abdomen. Segment I with row of strong setae, darker on apex and base, interrupted in center; segments II–IV with row of chitinous rods intercalated with long, thin setae, row of setae interrupted in center; segment V with row of chitinous rods, without anterior projection, intercalated with long, thin setae, row of setae interrupted in center; segments VI– VII with reduced chitinous rods, resembling spines, intercalated with thin setae; segment VIII with row of thin setae, with two reduced chitinous rods in center of row; pleura with row of strong and long setae, sternites with row of strong setae located in center of the segments (Fig. 1); anal tubercle with one pair of spines (Fig. 3), directed upwards, with two pairs of ventral projections, first pair located on proximal third, second on medial third (Fig. 2). Abdominal spiracles spiral shaped, with concavity directed anteriorly, slightly darker and more sclerotized than surrounding area, raised above surface and placed laterally on segments I–VII (Fig. 1).
Male: unknown.
Hosts: Hymenoptera — Sphecidae: Rubrica nasuta (Christ, 1791) Distribution: Neotropical: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Córdoba, Corrientes, Formosa, Jujuy, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Salta, Rio Negro, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán); Bolivia (Cochabamba); Brazil (Amazonas, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo); Chile (Coquimbo, Chubut); Paraguay (Areguá, Assunción, Concepción, Villarica, Yegros); Uruguay (Maldonado, Montevideo, Santa Rita).
Examined material: BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, 7­ IV­1994, 2 female, H.R. Pimenta leg. (C. Pref. /UFMG); BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, 23­ IV­ 1994, 1 female, H.R. Pimenta leg. (C. Pref. /UFMG); BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, 4­ IV­1994, 1 female, H.R. Pimenta leg. (C. Pref./UFMG).
description: Published as part of Cunha, André Mallemont & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2004, Redescription of the pupae of Hyperalonia morio morio (Fabricius), 1775 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Anthracinae, Exoprosopini), pp. 1-5 in Zootaxa 658 on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158554