Acrocera orbiculus Fabricius
Creators: name: Kehlmaier, Christian
name: Almeida, Jorge Mota
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Acroceridae
Acrocera
Acrocera orbiculus

description: Acrocera orbiculus (Fabricius)
Syrphus orbiculus Fabricius, 1787: 340. No specimen numbers or gender stated. Only one wing left (Zimsen 1964; T. Pape, in litt.). Type deposition: ZMUC. Type locality: Germany, Kiel.
Acrocera albipes Meigen, 1804: 148. No specimen numbers or gender stated. Type deposition: unknown; not MNHN (C. Daugeron, in litt.), NHMW (P. Sehnal, in litt.), KBIN (P. Limbourg, in litt.), UMO (A.C. Pont, in litt.). Type locality: not given (probably Central Europe, from coll. Baumhauer). Syn. (with A. globulus): Boie (1838: 236). See also Erichson (1840: 163).
Acrocera borealis Zetterstedt, 1838: 573. ♀ lectotype. Type deposition: ZML. Type locality: Sweden, Åsele. Syn.: de Jong et al. (2000: 175).
Syrphus globulus Panzer, [1804]: 20. No specimen numbers or gender stated. The figured specimen is most likely a female. Type deposition: unknown; not MNHU (J. Pohl, in litt.). Type locality: Germany, probably around Eichstätt (Bavaria) as the type was collected by Patricius Trost. Syn.: Schlinger (1965: 406).
Acrocera hubbardi Cole, 1919: 58. ♀ holotype. Type deposition: USNM (no. 21205). Type locality: USA, Arizona, Santa Rita Mountains. Syn.: Schlinger (1965: 406).
Acrocera hungerfordi Sabrosky, 1944: 406. ♀ holotype. Type deposition: SEMC. Type locality: USA, Michigan, Cheboygan Co. Syn.: Sabrosky (1948: 405).
Paracrocera kaszabi Majer, 1977: 105. syn. nov. ♀ holotype. Type deposition: HNHM. Type locality: Mongolia, Tosgoni ovoo, 5–10 km from Ulan Baator.
Remarks. Majer (1977) described A. kaszabi based on the “male” holotype from Mongolia. His illustration, however, clearly shows a female as already mentioned in de Jong et al. (2000), who suggest that it might be conspecific with A. orbiculus. The abdominal pattern of the holotype also occurs in the DNA-voucher specimen CK680 from south-western France (fig. 8A).
Paracrocera manevali Séguy, 1926: 164. syn. nov. ♀ holotype. Type deposition: MNHN. Type locality: France, Département Haute-Loire, Tence.
Remarks. According to Séguy (1926), the “male” holotype of A. manevali is characterized by large protruding genitalia. A study of the holotype revealed that it is in fact a female specimen, as already suspected by de Jong et al. (2000). Nartshuk (1982) stated that females with black scutellum and wholly black abdomen belong to A. orbiculus.
Paracrocera minuscula Séguy, 1934: 27. syn. nov. ♂ holotype. Type deposition: MNHN. Type locality: Spain, Zaragoza.
Remarks. The male holotype of A. minuscula was collected in Spain and, following Séguy (1934), differs from other species by their yellow distitarsi and hyaline lower calypters.
Ogcodes pubescens Latreille, 1805: 315. Holotype (no gender stated, but probably an entirely dark female). Type deposition: unknown; not MNHN (C. Daugeron, in litt.). Type locality: France, Département Hauts-de-Seine, Meudon. Syn.:? (Erichson (1840: 168) suggested that it might be A. orbiculus or A. globulus, but without having seen specimens at hand.)
Acrocera tumida Erichson, 1840: 166. ♀ holotype. Type deposition: MNHU. Type locality: not given (probably Germany). Syn.: (Sack 1936: 30).
description: Published as part of Kehlmaier, Christian & Almeida, Jorge Mota, 2014, New host records for European Acroceridae (Diptera), with discussion of species limits of Acrocera orbiculus (Fabricius) based on DNA-barcoding, pp. 135-152 in Zootaxa 3780 (1) on page 145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/231197