Eosphaerophoria hermosa Mengual &amp; Ghorpadé 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mengual, Ximo
name: Ghorpadé, Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Eosphaerophoria
Eosphaerophoria hermosa

description: <i>Eosphaerophoria hermosa</i> Mengual, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3437D78B-8A38-451B-B270-DE9AE95FE239 Fig. 32; MorphBank [http://www.morphbank.net/?id=478079] <b>Male.</b> Unknown. <b>Female.</b> <i>Head</i>. Face straight, broad, with distinct round tubercle, yellow with medial diffuse black vitta narrowing to tubercle tip not reaching oral apex, yellow pilose; gena yellow; lunula black; frons completely black on dorsal 1/4 (length between anterior ocellus and lunula), yellow on basolateral 3/4 with medial well-defined black vitta slightly narrowing ventrally (about 1/3 of frons width) continuing with facial vitta, yellow pilose; vertex and vertical triangle black, black pilose; ocelli brownish, anterior ocellus very small; antenna yellow, basoflagellomere brown dorsally, oval; arista brown; occiput mainly black, yellow ventrally, yellow pilose and silvery pollinose ventrally, black pilose and golden pollinose dorsally. <i>Thorax</i>. Scutum mainly black, shiny medially, black pollinose laterally, yellow laterally with lateral broad yellow stripe from postpronotum to scutellum, narrower after transverse suture with ventral black area, golden brown pilose; postpronotum yellow; notopleuron yellow with distinct posterolateral obtuse protuberance; scutellum triangular, with a tooth on medial posterior margin, yellow with dorsomedial triangular black area continuing from posterior mesonotum, golden brown pilose; propleuron, anepisternum and anepimeron entirely yellow; katepisternum black with dorsal yellow macula; meron black; katepimeron yellow; katatergum mainly yellow, black posteriorly; calypter dark brown; halter yellowish. <i>Wing</i>. Wing bare basomedially. <i>Legs</i>. Pro- and mesoleg entirely yellow, except distal part of mesofemur and basal part of mesotibia slightly darker, yellow pilose except tarsi with short black setulae ventrolaterally; metacoxa and trochanter yellow, yellow pilose; metafemur yellow on basal 1/2, black on distal 1/2, yellow and brown pilose; metatibia black, golden brown pilose; metatarsus black, golden yellow pilose ventrolaterally and brown pilose dorsolaterally. <i>Abdomen</i>. Fig. 32. Dorsum mainly black, black pilose except 1st tergum yellow pilose laterally; 1st tergum yellow with posteromedial very narrow black fascia not reaching margins; 2nd tergum black dorsally, with anteromedial very narrow black fascia not reaching margins and basal yellow fascia, about 1/4 of tergum length, produced posteriorly in a medial triangular emargination reaching half length of tergum, with lateral margin broadly yellow on anterior 4/5, as broad as anterobasal yellow fascia; 3rd tergum black with basomedial very narrow black fascia not reaching margins and with basal yellow fascia, about 1/3 of tergum length, produced posteriorly in a medial triangular emargination reaching 2/3 length of tergum, with lateral margin yellow on anterior 3/4; 4th tergum similar to 3rd tergum, black with basomedial very narrow black fascia not reaching margins and with basal yellow fascia, about 1/3 of tergum length, produced posteriorly in a medial triangular emargination reaching half length of tergum, with lateral margin yellow on anterior 2/3; 5th tergum black with basomedial very narrow black fascia not reaching margins and with a basal yellow fascia, about 1/2 of tergum length, slightly broader laterally and narrower medially; 6th tergum similar to 5th tergum, black with basomedial broad black fascia and with basal yellow fascia, about 2/5 of tergum length; 7th and 8th terga black; sterna yellowish, black pilose; 4th sternum with some depressed long thin black hairs medially on posterior margin; 5th, 6th and7th terga with some long erected thin black hairs medially on posterior margin. <b>Type locality.</b> INDONESIA: North Maluku, Jailolo, Halmahera Island, Kampung Pasir Putih. 0°53'N, 127°41'E. The coordinates place the collecting point in the sea due to the planetary model used, but it was moved to the closest terrestrial point in the kml file. <b>Type.</b> <i>Holotype:</i> “ INDONESIA: Halmahera // Isl., Jailolo Dist., // Kampung Pasir Putih // 0°53'N, 127°41'E ” “ 1–14 Feb. 1981 // AC Messer &amp; PM Taylor” “ HOLOTYPE // <i>Eosphaerophoria</i> // <i>hermosa</i> // det. X. Mengual 20 <i>09</i> ” [red, second and third lines handwritten] USNM ENT00036562 [1&amp;female;, USNM]. <b>Length</b> (1): body, 6.8 mm; wing, 5.0 mm. <b>Distribution:</b> Indonesia. <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is derived from the Spanish <i>hermoso</i>, meaning beautiful, comely, handsome. Species epithet to be treated as adjective. <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> <i>Eosphaerophoria hermosa</i>, <i>E. dentiscutellata</i> and <i>E. adornata</i> are the three species with a distinct medial tooth on the posterior scutellar margin. <i>Eosphaerophoria hermosa</i> has a medial black facial vitta, while the other species have yellow faces and most of the 1st abdominal tergum yellow. In addition, its abdominal pattern is the mostly yellow.
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 58-60, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.33.298, http://zenodo.org/record/576598