Merodon nanus Sack
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 nanus

description: Merodon nanus Sack
Diagnosis. Male genitalia: tip of posterior lobe of the surstylus rounded, directed anteriorly (Fig. 5 A: ps). Aedeagal box elongated, 1/3 of length of hypandrium (Fig. 5 B: ab; 5C: ac); distal end of the aedeagal box is strongly bifurcated in the ventral view (Fig. 5 C). This latter character is very stable in all analyzed populations across a wide range of species, from Lesvos through Turkey as far as Israel, Iran and Armenia; and is the main diagnostic character that distinguishes M. nanus (Fig. 5 C) from closely related M. rasicus sp. n. (Fig. 5 D). In addition, the rounded posterior surstyle is a unique character within this group (the posterior margin of the posterior surstyle is convex, contrary to all other species where it is more or less straight). Inner processes are settled in the apical 1/4 of the hypandrium (Fig. 5 B: ih).
Type material. LECTOTYPE, ♂, “Kurdistan-Kasikopov”, “ Lectotype ♂ Merodon nanus Sack-designated 1988 W. Hurkmans”, “ Merodon nana Sack Type ♀”, “ Typus ”, “ Syntypus ”, “Coll. DEI Eberswalde”, “03351”,“WM601” = Iran (ZHMB).
Additional material. Armenia: ♀, Caucasus, Araxesthal, Reitter (ZHMB); Greece: Lesvos, 2 ♂, ♀, Ag. Ermogenis, 2.v.2008 (FSUNS); 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Mytilene, 7–11.v.2004 (FSUNS), 100m; ♀, Panagia island, Tokmakia, 24.iv.2004 (FSUNS), 5m; ♂,♀, Sifnaios, 30.iv.2008, 75m; (MAegean); Iran: ♂, Tang Razianeh, 11.v.2006, 1100m (B.G. coll.); Israel: Haifa, 2♂, 1km E from Hurfeish, 15.v.1996, Schmid-Egger ISR hur (RMNH), ♂, 1km E from Hurfeish, 15.v.1996, Schmid-Egger ISR hur (M. H. Coll.); ♀, Tivon, 13.iv.1962; Golan, Har Dov, ♂, 8.vi.1983; 2 ♂, 21.v.1986, 5 ♂, ♀, Nahal Nimrod, 19.v.1983, ♀, Qala'at Nimrod, 19.v.1983, Hefa, Ma Yan Zevi (Ma`yan Ẕevi), 22 ♂, 23 ♀f #, 17.iv.1980; 3 ♂, 17.ii.1980 (RMNH), ♂, ♀, 17.iv.1980 (ZMA), Jerusalem, ♀, Kiryat Anavim, 3.v.1968, ♀, Ein Karem, 12.v.1976, 6♂, ♀ Mount Hermon, 9.vi.1975 (TAU), ♂, ♀, 3.vi.1979, ♂, 29.v.1984, ♂, Western Galilee, Ga`aton, 21.iv.1973, Mount Meiron, ♀, 20.v.1972, ♂, 22.iv.1973, 4 ♂, 13.v.1973, ♀, 6.vi.1973, 2 ♀, 14.v.1974, ♂, ♀, 11.vi.1974, ♀, 11.vii.1974, ♂, 28.v.1981, N. Bet- Oren, ♂, 6.v.1972, ♂, Nahal Dishon, 14.v.1973, ♂, Nahal Oren, 23.iv.1988, ♀, Nahal-kziv, 21.iv.1973, Ramot Naftali, ♀, 8.v.1969, ♀, 15.v.1973 (TAU); Lebanon: ♀, Mount Leban, Brumana, 26.v.1953, ♀, Jezzîne, 3.vi.1953 (FSUNS); Palestine: ♀, Petach Tikvah, 30.iii.1925, O. Theodor (TAU); Syria: 4 ♂, 1856 (RMNH); Turkey: ♂, ♀, Mersin, Mut, Çömelek village, 40 km E from Mut, 29.v.1996 (FSUNS), 3 ♂, Kahramanmaraş, Afşin, 9.vi.1984 (RMNH), ♀, Hatay, Antakya, 10.v.2000 (TAU), ♂, Bingol, Buğlan pass, 30.vii.1992, ♂, Hakkari, Cilo mountains, 16.vi.1984, ♂, Aksaray, Doğantepe village, Yalnızağaç, 30.vi.1997 (RMNH), ♂, Erzurum, Kargapazarı mountains, 27.vi.1996 (BMNH), ♀, Bingöl, Çermük village vi.1914 (NHMW).
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 448, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/245527