Palpada meigenii
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 meigenii

description: Palpada meigenii (Wiedemann, 1830)
Figs 60–61
Eristalis meigenii Wiedemann, 1830: 177
Eristalis quadraticornis Macquart, 1842: 51
Eristalis testaceiscutellata Macquart, 1850: 138
Eristalomya quadraticornis Rondani, 1863: 6 *
Eristalis foveifrons Thompsen, 1869: 491
Type locality and data. “ Montevideo, Uruguay ” (T, ♂, NMW).
Material examined. Coquimbo: 1♂, La Higuera, 30 km North, 14.IV.2000, Leg. L. Packer (CNC); 1♂, Tongoy, 16.IX.1970, Leg. Angulo (MZUC); 2♂, Los Rojas, 280 m, 18.VIII.1973, Leg. H. Vasquéz (UTA), 1♂, 1♀, El Molle, 350 m, 19.VII.1973, Leg. A. Aguilera (UTA); Metropolitana: 1♀, Cerro San Cristóbal, 15.X.1952, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♀, La Platina, 6.V.1986, Leg. P. Larraín (INIA); 1♂, Naltahue, II.1944, Leg. L.E. Peña (INIA); 36♂, Peñalolén, XII.1953, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); San José de Maipo (Porter 1924); 6♂, 1♀, Laguna de Aculeo, 3–7.XI.1959, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); Melipilla, 15.XI.1970, Leg. J. W. Boyes (CNC); Maule: 1♂, El Coigo, 1–20.II.1960, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♀, Fundo Malcho, I.1957, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); 1♂, Tregualemu, 12.XII.1953, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); Ñuble: 1♂, Florida, Quillón, 16.X.1955, Leg. Casan (MZUC); Biobío: 1♂, Concepción, 07.III.1962, Leg. Mendez (MZUC); 1♀, Quiriquina island, 29.XI.1956, Leg. Cid (MZUC); 1♀, Penco, 12.XII.1959, Leg. J.O.R. (MZUC); 6♀, Desembocadura del Biobío, 22.XI.1970, Leg. J. W. Boyes (CNC); 1♂, Cholguan, 8.VI.1956 (MZUC); 1♂, Mocha Island, 09.III.1971, Leg. Mecha (MZUC); 1♂, 1♀, Hualqui, 6.I.1946, Leg. L.E. Peña (INIA); 1♀, Los Angeles, 25.III.1959, Leg. Correa (MZUC); 1♀, Ratmuncho, 10.II.1974, Leg. Moyano (MZUC); 1♂, San Pedro de la Paz, 15.XII.1957, Leg. Cid (MZUC); Traiguén (Porter 1923); La Araucanía: 1♂, Angol, 25.III.1957, Leg. Parada (MZUC); 1♂, Marimenuco, 10.XII.1959, Leg. L. Peña (CNC); Los Ríos: 2♂, 1♀, Santo Domingo, Valdivia, 5.II.1989, Leg. E. Krahmer (UACH); 1♂, 3♀, Valdivia, 5.II.1989, Leg. E. Khramer (UACH); 1♂, Maullín, 5.XI.1942, Leg. L.E. Peña (INIA); 1♂, 1♀, Fundo San Jorge, Paillaco, 20km, 12.I.1986, Leg. Ramón Rebolledo (PCRR); Los Lagos: 1♂, Chaperano, Chiloé, 20.III.1954, Leg. González (MZUC); 1♂, 10♀, Río Guyunden, 1.II.2018, Leg. J. H., A. W. and A. M. Skevington (CNC); 2♂, 2♀, Caulín, Chacao, Chiloé, 16.II.2016, Leg. C. Smith-Ramírez (CSD).
References. Wiedemann, 1830: 177 (desc.); Macquart, 1842: 51, plate 10 (desc.); Macquart, 1850: 138, plate
13, fig. 2 (desc.); Blanchard, 1852: 406 (desc.); Rondani, 1863: 6 (desc.); Thompson, 1869: 491 (desc.); Williston, 1886: 318 (cat.); Reed, 1888: 298 (cat.); Lynch Arribálzaga, 1892: 38 (cat.); Kertész, 1910: 232 (cat.); Porter, 1921: 447 (cat., distr. & notes); Porter, 1923: 117 (cat.); Porter, 1924: 98 (cat.); Hull, 1925a: 29 (desc.); Curran, 1930b: 4 (key & desc.); Porter, 1933: 182 (checklist as Eristalis testaceiscutellata); Shannon & Aubertin, 1933: 161 (desc.); Curran, 1934: 407 (cat.); Gutiérrez, 1939: 35 (cat.); Sack, 1941: 108 (cat.); Stuardo, 1946: 128 (cat.); Fluke, 1957: 137 (cat.); Etcheverry, 1963: 41 (cat.); Thompson et al., 1976: 107 (cat.); Lagrange, 1990b: 16 (key & desc.); Smith-Ramírez et al., 2014: 6 (ecological study, supplementary material); Medan & Torreta, 2015: 1185 (pollinator study).
World distribution. Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.
Chilean distribution. From Coquimbo to Los Lagos region (Fig. 65).
Altitudinal range. From coastal to highland ecosystems (5– 2,000 m.a.s.l.).
Biology and notes. Palpada meigenii has been confused many times with Eristalis distinguendus, currently recognized as Palpada distinguenda (Wiedemann, 1830). In fact, Porter in different papers (1921, 1923, 1924) recorded P. distinguenda from Chile and Etcheverry (1963) included it in his catalog. However, Lagrange (1990b) excludes P. distinguenda from Chile and mentions that it was confused with P. meigenii. Porter (1921) recorded P. meigenii visiting flowers of Aristolochia chilensis Bridges ex Lindl based on specimens collected by professor Stuardo in La Serena. Neira et al. (1997) recorded it visiting flowers of R. iaedus. It has also been observed visiting Raphanus raphanistrum L. (Ricardo Huenuanca, CSP record), Tagetes patula L. (Tabatha Carrera, CSP record) and Verbena litoralis Kunth (Orlando Montes, CSP record).
Conservation status. LC; EOO = 231,068 km 2; AOO = 116 km 2, 23 subpopulations and 26 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 47-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4693464