Merodon telmateia Hurkmans
Creators: name: Vujić, Ante
name: Radenković, Snežana
name: Ačanski, Jelena
name: Grković, Ana
name: Taylor, Mike
name: Şenol, Serdar Gökhan
name: Hayat, Rüstem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Merodon
Merodon telmateia

description: Merodon telmateia Hurkmans
Diagnosis. All tarsi pale (if darker, always uniformly colored; except in some specimens from Mugla mountain in Turkey, which may have dark apical two tarsomeres). Male genitalia: posterior lobe of the surstylus relatively small, with wide rounded tip slightly pointed anteriorly and the posterior margin more or less straight; ventral margin of surstylus slightly concave, not S-shaped (Fig. 11 A). Hypandrium tapering towards sharp apex (Figs. 7 D, 11B), contrary to all other species of group; inner processes of hypandrium settled in the apical 1/4 (Fig. 11 B: ih); aedeagal box elongated, about half the length of hypandrium (Fig. 11 B: ab).
Type material. HOLOTYPE: Turkey: ♂, Kars, Sarıkamış, Kars Stream, 30.vi. to 7.vii.1986 (RMNH). PARATYPES: Turkey: Kars, 2 ♀, 25 km W from Sarıkamış, 6.vii.1985 (TAU), 2♀, 5 km E from Sarıkamış, Kars Stream, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 (ZHMB), ♀, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 (RMNH), ♂, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 (M.H. coll.), ♀, 30.vi. to 5.vii.1986 (NHMW).
Additional material. Greece: Samos, ♂, Ambelos, near Agios Ioannis, 15.v.2010, near Manolates, ♂, 14.v.2010, 4 ♂, 2 ♀, 15.v.2010, ♂, ♀, 8.vi.2010, ♂, Pyrgos, 8.vi.2012 (FSUNS); Israel: ♀, Galilee, Kfar Shamai, 27.v.1980 (TAU); Pakistan: 2 ♀, Makri (ZHMB); Russia: ♂, Kabardino-Balkar, Khulamo-Bezengiyevskiy Rayon, 8.viii.2000 (SZMN); Turkey: Bayburt, Kop mountain pass, 2 ♂, 20.vii.1989, ♂, Agri, ♂, Patnos, ♀, Artvin, 5 km S from Kılıçkaya, ♀, Ardahan, 20.vii.1977, 3 ♀, Bayburt, Demirözü, 23.vii.1991, ♂, 4 ♀, 30.vii.1991, ♀, 4.vi.1992, ♂, 30.vii.1992, 2 ♂, Demirözü, Eymir village, 6.viii.1992, Kop Mountain, 12 ♂, 12 ♀, 28.vi.1990, 13 ♂, 14 ♀, 10.viii.1991, 4 ♀, 12.vii.1992, ♂, ♀, 15.vii.1992, 7 ♂, 7 ♀, 12.viii.1992, ♂, ♀, throughout river, 21.vi.1992 (EMIT), Çankırı, Yumaklı village, 2 ♂, 22.vii.1997 (FSUNS), ♀, Erzurum, Çat, Çirişli pass, 22.vi.1987, ♂, Alaybeyi village, 11.vii.1990, ♀, Aşkale, Kop Mountain, 25.vi.1990, ♂, ♀, Şehitlik fountain, 20.vii.2005, ♀, Pırnakapan, 28.vi.1990 (EMIT), ♂, Ilıca, Atlıkonak village, 12.vii.1997 (RMNH), 13 ♂, 28 ♀, 11.vi.2000, 2 ♀, Karagöbek Mountain, 5.vii.1989 (EMIT), ♂, Kargapazarı Mountains, ♂, Pasinler, Rabat ♂, Pass SW from Oltu (RMNH), ♂, Palandöken Mountain, 17.viii.1988, ♀, Kümbet village, 11.vii.1990, ♀, Özbek village, 11.vii.1990, ♂, Pazaryolu, 18.vi.1994 (EMIT), Şenkaya, 2♂, ♀, 14.vii.1997, (RMNH), 2 ♀, 3.vii.1990, ♂, 7.viii.1988, Turnalı, 2 ♂,♀ 2.vii.1990, 4♂, 5♀ 3.vii.1990, ♀, 25.vi.1991 (EMIT), ♀, 20.vi.1997 (FSUNS), ♀, Tekman, 30.vi.1997, ♂, Tortum, 10.viii.1988 (EMIT), ♂, Yumaklı, ♂, Umudum (RMNH), ♂, Şehitlik Fountain, 20.vii.2005 (FSUNS), Kars, ♂, 5 km E from Sarıkamış, Kars Stream, ♂, 8 km W from Sarıkamış, ♂, Handere, 20 km W from Sarıkamış, ♂, Soğanlı, W from Sarıkamış, ♂,Yeniköy (RMNH), Marmaris, ♂, (FSUNS), 2 ♀, (ZHMB), Muğla, ♂, Köyceğiz, (RMNH), ♂, Kale, 18.vi.1998 (FSUNS), ♂, 3♀, “Lamnan Stream”, 1.vi.2000 (M.R. coll.), near Çakmak, 10 ♂, 15 ♀, 6.v.2014, 3 ♀, 6.iii.2014 (FSUNS), ♂, Reşadiye Yarimadası, 01.vi.2000, (V.W. coll.), ♂, Pamphylia (Antalya), Murtiçi 25 km S from Akseki, 1.vi.1991 (ZMC), Rize, 3 ♂, 8 ♀, İkizdere, Ovit Mountaion, 29.vii.2000 (EMIT), ♀, Artvin, Maedow above Ardanuç, 23.vi.1999 (WML).
description: Published as part of Vujić, Ante, Radenković, Snežana, Ačanski, Jelena, Grković, Ana, Taylor, Mike, Şenol, Serdar Gökhan & Hayat, Rüstem, 2015, Revision of the species of the Merodon nanus group (Diptera: Syrphidae) including three new species, pp. 439-462 in Zootaxa 4006 (3) on page 452, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/245527