Volucella pellucens subsp. pellucens pellucens (Linnaeus
Creators: name: Choi, Deuk-Soo
name: Ôhara, Kenji
name: Han, Ho-Yeon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Volucella
Volucella pellucens
Volucella pellucens pellucens (linnaeus)

description: <i>Volucella pellucens pellucens</i> (Linnaeus) (Figs. 4A, B, D­J, 5M–P, 6A, B) <i>Musca pellucens</i> Linnaeus, 1785: 595 (Type­locality: Sweden (restricted by Thompson); Type?, LSL). <i>Conops dryaphila</i> Scopoli, 1763: 353 (Type­locality: “Carniola”, Slovenia; Type?, Lost). <i>Syrphus putescens</i> Schellenberg, 1803: pl. 8, misspelling of <i>pellucens</i> Linnaeus. <i>Volucella pellucens</i>: Sack, 1931: 247 (redescription); Walker, 1951: 261 (redescription); Zimina, 1961: 145 (in Palaearctic key); Bankowska, 1963: 58 (in Polish key); Violovitsh, 1983: 110 (in Siberian key); Stubbs et Falk, 1983: 216 (British hoverflies); Stackelberg, 1988: 103 (in European part of USSR key); Verlinden, 1991: 178 (in Belgian key). <i>Diagnosis</i> <i>Volucella pellucens</i> and <i>V. thompsoni</i> are similar in having almost entirely pale abdominal tergite 2, with which they can be readily distinguished from the other species of the <i>V. pellucens</i> species group. <i>Volucella thompsoni</i> can be further separated from <i>V. pellucens</i> by the diagnosis already given. We found that there are clear differences between the Far Eastern and European subspecies of <i>V. pellucens</i> especially in females (see also Remarks of <i>V. p. tabanoides</i>). Females of <i>V. p. tabanoides</i> can be distinguished from those of <i>V. p. pellucens</i> by their scutum with distinct brown triangular prescutella macula (Figs. 6C, D). Males are hardly separable but their eye contiguity­vertex ratios seem different: 0.54–0.67 in <i>V. p. tabanoides</i> (89 specimens measured), and 0.75–1.00 in <i>V. p. pellucens</i> (9 specimens measured) (Table 1). <i>Material examined</i> SPAIN: Pyrenees, Aran Valley nr. Banh des Tredos, 1,500 –1,800 m, 30.VII.2003, G. Ståhls, 1&amp;male; (YSUW); Pyrenees, Aran Valley nr. Arties 1,500m, 1.VIII.2003, G. Ståhls, 1&amp;female; (YSUW). UK: Esher, Surrey, 16. VI.1947, J. F. G. Clarke, 1&amp;male; (USNM); ditto, 13.VII.1947, J. F. G. Clarke, 1&amp;female; (USNM). GERMANY: Emmend. Vorbergz. Kohlwald carex pil. ­ Schlag Blauschale 6B, 310m, 9. VI.1986, A. Ssymank, 1&amp;male; (YSUW); ditto, ­ Schlag Weiβschale 6W, 310m, 19. VI.1986, A. Ssymank, 1&amp;female; (YSUW). SWITZERLAND: Sr Cagues, aout, Genève, 1927, A. Naville, 1&amp;male; (YSUW); SUISSE­Vaud, Bonvillars­La Coudre, 27. V.1992, J. Steffen, 1&amp;male; (YSUW); Helv. ZH 650m Zürich­Zürichberg, 7.VII.1998, B. Merz, 1&amp;female; (YSUW); CH GR Valbella 178/761 1,500m U Brache, 27.VII.1997, Merz &amp; Müller, 1&amp;female; (YSUW); Helv. Geneva 350m river of “La Laire” 25.VII.2004, H.­Y. Han &amp; K.­E. Ro, 1&amp;female; (YSUW); Helv. Valais 1,400 –1,433 m Viez die Morgins, Morgins, 27.VII.2004, H.­Y. Han &amp; K.­E. Ro, 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (YSUW); Helv. Valais 1,900 –2,200 m Visperterminen­Gebidempass (46.15.28N / 7.56.23E), 21.VII.2004, H.­Y. Han &amp; K.­E. Ro, 1&amp;female; (YSUW). <i>Distribution</i> Widespread in Western Palaearctic region. <i>Biology</i> This species is associated with <i>Vespa</i> and <i>Vespula</i> species (Hymenoptera) during immature stage (Verrall, 1901; Lundbeck, 1916; Bury, 1920; Krüger, 1926; Nixon, 1934 etc.). <i>Remarks</i> See Remarks of <i>V. pellucens tabanoides</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Choi, Deuk-Soo, Ôhara, Kenji &amp; Han, Ho-Yeon, 2006, Taxonomic notes on the Volucella pellucens species group (Diptera: Syrphidae) with a description of one new species from the Eastern Palaearctic, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1185</i> on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4920432
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