Data · collection · 2025
Two new hoverfly species of the Merodon desuturinus lineage (Diptera: Syrphidae: Merodontini)
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Description
This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Likov, Laura, Vujić, Ante, Radenković, Snežana, Zorić, Ljiljana Šašić, Djan, Mihajla, Jordaens, Kurt, Mudri-Stojnić, Sonja (2025): Two new hoverfly species of the Merodon desuturinus lineage (Diptera: Syrphidae: Merodontini). European Journal of Taxonomy 987: 26-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.987.2857, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2857/12989 Abstract.
The hoverfly genus Merodon Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) comprises five monophyletic lineages. Here, we describe two new species of the murorum species group and melanocerus species group from the desuturinus lineage. One species, Merodon spinolobus Vujić, Radenković & Likov sp. nov., belongs to the Afrotropical melanocerus species group, and is recorded from the Republic of South Africa.
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The other species, M. sublustris Likov, Vujić & Radenković sp. nov., is recorded from Iran and belongs to the Palaearctic murorum species group. New species are recognized and described based on morphology and molecular data (3' and 5' COI regions). Additionally, the identification key for the desuturinus lineage is updated and distribution maps for the two new species are provided.
Finally, the first distribution data for Merodon cabanerensis Marcos-García, Vujić & Mengual, 2007 (of the murorum species group) from outside of Europe (Morocco) is reported.
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- GBIF dataset page gbif.org/dataset/d18ea473-40c6-4784-8c49-4216e732a07d ↗
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- DOI doi.org/10.15468/99wmqk ↗
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- Publisher page tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/6B0AB030F776FFC9FFB7EE23FFC5A901 ↗
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- GBIF API api.gbif.org/v1/dataset/d18ea473-40c6-4784-8c49-4216e732a07d ↗
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Topics
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- Life Sciences
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- Evolutionary biology 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| GBIF | d18ea473-40c6-4784-8c49-4216e732a07d | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| access_level | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3104 | enrichment · gbif | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | /description |
| license | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · gbif | connector:gbif@1.0.0 |