Philippimyia cyanocephalus
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
Philippimyia
Philippimyia cyanocephalus

description: Philippimyia cyanocephalus (Philippi, 1865)
Figs 71–73
Sterphus cyanocephalus Philippi, 1865: 738
Type locality and data. “ Santiago, Chile ” (T, A, MNHNCL).
Material examined. Valparaíso: 1♂, Colliguay, 19.I.1963, Leg. Cerda (MNHNCL); 1♀, El Salto, XII.1969, Leg. Hichins (MNHNCL); 1♀, Perales, II.1928, Leg. A. Pirión (CNC); 1♀, Miraflores, II.1954, Leg. NN (IEUMCE); 1♂, Quintero, no date, Leg. M. Etcheverry (IEUMCE); Metropolitana: 1♀, Las Condes, 12.I.1966, Leg. V. Pérez (MNHNCL); 1♂, El Volcán, 10.I.1964, Leg. Montes (IEUMCE); 1♀, La Obra, no date, Leg. M. Echeverry (IEUMCE); 2♂, 1♀, Quebrada de la Plata, Maipú, 22.III. 1967, Leh. N. Hichins (MEUC); O’Higgins: 1♂, Quebrada San Gerónimo, no date, Leg. NN (IEUMCE); 1♀, Pangal, no date, Leg. NN (IEUMCE); Maule: 1♀, Fundo el Roble, 19.I.1968. Leg. L.E. Peña (MEUC); 1♀, Los Cipreces, 14.I.1968, Leg. L.E. Peña (MEUC); Ñuble: 1♂, Los Lleuques, 07.I.1992, Leg. NN (MNHNCL); La Araucanía: 1♀, El Manzanar, 17.I.1966, Leg. Wagenknecht (MZUC); 1♀, Contulmo, no date, Leg. M. Etcheverry (IEUMCE); 1♂, Angol, 1946 m, Leg. Coquerell (IEUMCE); Los Ríos: 1♂, Fundo Caupolican, Valdivia, 13.XII.1962, Leg. Krahmer (MNHNCL); 1♂, 1♀, Santo Domingo, Valdivia, 25.XI.1990, Leg. E. Krahmer (UACH); Los Lagos: 1♂, Pucatrihue, 20.I.1967, Leg. M. E. Irwin (CNC); 1♀, Dalcahue, 22.I.1962, Leg. L. Peña (CNC).
References. Philippi, 1865: 738 (desc.); Williston, 1886: 322 (cat.); Reed, 1888: 300 (cat.); Kertész, 1910: 308 (cat.); Shannon, 1926: 46 (key & desc.); Shannon, 1927: 5 (key); Shannon & Aubertin, 1933: 158 (desc.); Stuardo, 1946: 128 (cat.); Hull, 1949b: 374 (key & desc.); Fluke, 1957: 112 (cat.); Etcheverry, 1963: 66 (cat.); Thompson, 1972b: 163, fig. 67 (male genitalia), 67a (aedeagus and apodeme), 67e (ejaculatory apodeme), 67s (sternum), 67t (tergum) (Milesiinae rev.); Thompson, 1973: 191 (key); Thompson et al., 1976: 119 (cat.); Thompson, 1999a: 334 (key); Camousseight, 2005: 93 (cat.).
World distribution. Chile.
Chilean distribution. From Valparaíso to Los Lagos region (Fig. 79).
Altitudinal range. From coastal to precordillera ecosystems (10– 1,000 m.a.s.l.).
Biology and notes. Philippimyia cyanocephalus is a species associated with native forests. The first live record was observed recently in the exotic shrub R. ulmifolius (Ricardo Varela, CSP record, Fig. 73). Other biological and ecological aspects of this species are unknown.
Conservation status. LC; EOO = 128,991 km 2; AOO = 88 km 2 and 20 localities (or subpopulations).
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 54-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4693464