Palpada elegans
Creators: name: Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M.
name: Riera, Pamela
name: Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura
name: Guzmán, Vicente Valdés
name: Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Palpada
Palpada elegans

description: Palpada elegans (Blanchard, 1852)
Figs 58–59
Eristalis elegans Blanchard, 1852: 406
Eristalis philippi Schiner, 1868: 363
Type locality and data. “ Coquimbo, Chile ” (T, A, MNHNP).
Material examined. Coquimbo: 1♂, Illapel, 320m, 09.IV.1971, Leg. P. Ramírez F. (MZUC); 2♀, Divisadero, Punitaqui, 5–18.I.1968, Leg. L.W. Alfaro (MEUC); Valparaíso: 1♂, Mantagua, 43m, 13.I.1967, Leg. D. Lanfranco (MNHNCL); 1♂, Viña del Mar, 9.I.1983, Leg. M. Pino (UACH); 1♂, Malvilla, 2.I.1948, Leg. L.E. Peña (INIA); 1♂, Los Andes, Río Blanco, 29-31.III.1954, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); Metropolitana: 1♂, 1♀, Pudahuel, 29.I.1959, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 3♀, Quebrada de la Plata, Rinconada de Maipú, 27.II.1987, Leg. N. Hichins (MEUC); 4♀, Maipú, 11.IV.1960, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♂, Quebrada de Macul, 01.IX.1963, Leg. NN (MNHNCL); 1♀, Peñalolen, XII.1953, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 7♂, 3♀, Laguna Aculeo, 3.XI.1959, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); O’Higgins: 1♂, Peumo, I.1953, Leg. E.O.B. (MZUC); 1♀, Nancagua, XII.1944, Leg. L.E. Peña (INIA); 2♂, 1♀, La Rosa, 16.III.1954, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); Maule: 1♀, Panemavida, IV.1954, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♂, 1♀, Cubillo, 25.I.1965, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♂, Linares, XII.1952, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 12♂, 6♀, El Coigo, 1.II.1960, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♂, Iloca, Curicó, 08.XII.1969, col. G. Gaulthier (MZUC); 6♂, 6♀, Fundo Malcho, I.1957, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 4♂, Villa Alegre, 5.XII.1960, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 2♂, 1♀, Los Cipreces, 14.I.1968, Leg. L.E. Peña (MEUC); 1♂, Tregualemu, 12.XII.1953, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); Ñuble: 1♂, Recinto, 3.IV.1954, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♂, Baquedano, Yungay, 06.IX.1957, Leg. Aguilar (MZUC); 1♀, Coelemu, 01.V.1956, Leg. L. Longeri (MZUC); Biobío: 2♀, Los Angeles, 12.I.1957, Leg. J. Artigas (MZUC); 1♀, Dichato, 20.XII.1953, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♀, Penco, 6.XI.1956, Leg. Figil (MZUC); 1♂, 1♀, Concepción, 18.II.1966, Leg. Mendéz (MZUC); 2♀, Lenga, 01.01.197 0, Leg. Angulo (MZUC); 1♂, Caramávida, 25–31.XII.1953, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 3♂, Peillem-Pilli, 14.I.1954, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 2♂, 2♀, Pichinahuel, 30.I.1954, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); La Araucanía: 1♂, Angol, 20.III.1957, Leg. Parada (MZUC); 1♀, Collipulli, 10.II.1967, Leg. Mendéz (MZUC); Los Ríos: 2♂, 4♀, Santo Domingo, Valdivia, 22.I.1989, Leg. E. Krahmer (UACH); 1♀, Valdivia, 8.I.1984, Leg. E. Krahmer (UACH); 1♂, 1♀, Valdivia, 19.IX.1980, Leg. R. Rebolledo (PCRR); Los Lagos: 1♂, Lago Chapo, 15.XII.1964, Leg. Hichins (MNHNCL); 1♂, Contao, Llanquihue, 22.XI.1966, J. Silva (MNHNCL); 2♂, 2♀, Caulín, Chacao, Chiloé, 16.II.2016. Leg. C. Smith-Ramírez (CSD); 2♂, 3♀, Senda Darwin Biological Station, 13.I.2017, Leg. Rodrigo Barahona-Segovia (PCRBS).
References. Blanchard, 1852: 406 (desc.); Schiner, 1868: 363 (desc.); Williston, 1886: 318 (cat.); Reed, 1888: 298 (cat.); Kertész, 1910: 230 (cat.); Hull, 1925a: 26 (desc.); Shannon & Aubertin, 1933: 162 (cat.); Stuardo, 1946: 128 (cat.); Fluke, 1957: 134 (cat.); Etcheverry, 1963: 38 (cat.); Etcheverry, 1970: 95 (cat.); Thompson et al., 1976: 105 (cat.); Lagrange, 1990b: 22, fig. 77–83 (desc.); Smith-Ramírez et al., 2005: 412 (pollinator study); Smith- Ramírez et al., 2014: 6 (ecological study, supplementary material); Montoya, 2016: 496 (cat.).
World distribution. Argentina and Chile.
Chilean distribution. From Coquimbo to Los Lagos region (Fig. 65).
Altitudinal range. From coastal to highland ecosystems (5– 3,000 m.a.s.l.).
Biology and notes. Palpada elegans is a generalist species associated with disturbed and native ecosystems. According to Smith-Ramírez et al. (2005) P. elegans visits flowers of A. luma, A. altenifolia, E. cordifolia, M. ovata var. ovata, M. planipes, Rhaphithamnus spinosus (Juss.) Moldenke and T. stipularis (Smith-Ramírez et al., 2005). Others records have been made it visiting Achillea millfolium L. (Ricardo Huenuanca, CSP record); Baccharis sp. (Matías Cortés, CSP record); Haplopappus foliosus (Hook. & Arn.) Hook. & Arn. (Tabatha Carrera, CSP records) and Mentha sp. (Tity Rodríguez, CSP record),
Conservation status. LC; EOO = 161,994 km 2; AOO = 104 km 2, 24 subpopulations and 25 localities.
description: Published as part of Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia, 2021, Updating the knowledge of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Chile: Illustrated catalog, extinction risk and biological notes, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 4959 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4693464