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Spectacular Eumerus from Greece (E. niveitibia)
Gerard Pennards
This is a spectacular Eumerus I caught on the Island of Zakynthos in Greece. It was only found on the highest point of the Island (Mt Vrachionas, 756 meters), and very difficult to catch. Strong and fast flyer, only sitting on some bigger rocks once in a while. Big species, more than 10 mm, and as you can see it's metallic blue. On the abdomen there are the typical white Eumerus spots (not well visible on the pictures), and the animal has a lot of longer white hairs on the abdomen and legs, whereas on the thorax it has longer black hairs. I only saw males, and of those a caught a few. Does anyone know this species?
Greetings,
Edited by Gerard Pennards on 23-07-2008 08:51
Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
 
Gerard Pennards
And a picture of the abdomen
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Gerard Pennards
 
Gerard Pennards
After mailing some people to look at this species I got a message of Claus Claussen, Gerrmany, that this is for sure a male of Eumerus niveitibia Becker 1921.
Thanks very much Claus!
Greetings
Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
 
jorgemotalmeida
blue metallic syrphid! Shock
 
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Gerard Pennards
Fly in natural surroundings
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Gerard Pennards
 
Gerard Pennards
Full size
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Gerard Pennards
 
Maddin
Of course Claus is right again, this is close or identical with nivetibia. This is really an awesome and very rare species. I have one from Spain in my collection and also the type of Eumerus bayardi belongs to this group. I have not done a detailed comparison, but it could well be that there are at least 3 species involved, because there are some differences in color etc between the specimens...I try to post my pics of the type.
Cheers
Martin
Martin Hauser
 
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Andre
Do you have detailed pics of the tibia?
 
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Gerard Pennards
Hmmm, not yet, why do you want to look at hte tibia? Is there a difference between bayardi and niveitibia, or do you just want to see why it's called niveitibia?Grin
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Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
 
Andre
Yes.
 
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Lukasz Mielczarek
I have two similar specimens of blue metallic Eumerus from Bulgaria collected near Burgas. Eumerus niveitibia?
 
Lukasz Mielczarek
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Gerard Pennards
Hey Lukasz, Nice catch! Yes, it could be E. niveitibia, but in this group there are at least two other species I'm aware of.
One is Eumerus ovatus, which has bare eyes and some red patches (sometimes very small) at the abdomen.
The other one is Eumerus bayardi, of which the main feature is that the eyes in the male meet in one point! But this species also seems to have some reddish brown patches on tergites 3 or 4.
Your specimen seems to be less hairy than my niveitibia's, and also the metallic sheen seems different.
So my guess is that it is bayardi or ovatus, but I'm not sure!
I was still planning (together with Martin Hauser (Maddin)) to take a better look at this group, because it seems there could be more species involved.
If so, maybe we would ask you to lend us your specimens for study. Naturally, you'll get them back when we're finished!
Greetings,
Gerard
Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
 
PIERRE MILLE

Hello every one,

Gerard and Lukasz hoverflies are beautiful, I personally have never seen the like!

In the book of Van Veen, most are thermophilous and can be found in grasslands and at the borders of woods and bushes, often near the larval food plants, most speciesfly quickly near the ground, which makes them difficult to spot et the larvae mine through bulbs and are considered pests in commercial bulb plantations.

In the book of Verlinden the Mesonotum and abdomen with short straight lines or arcs pruinisité gray or silver wing MP1a recurrent femur 3 more or less thickened, the lower face provided with spines on the apical half, flat face covered with long hairs directed downwards and larvae live in the bulbs and rhizomes of some Liliaceae, Asteraceae. In the book Seguy "syrphid Diptera of Western Europe 1961" it is clear that adults and larvae anthophilous lucicoles and also live in the Amaryllis Orrobanchées observed and spurge Seguy divided into two groups, indicating that this cutoff is artificial casue of the apical dimple or rarely apically on the 3rd antennal some species.

I searched the Syrph the Net, this is one of the largest syrphid genera in the Palaearctic region, with 140 species listed by Peck (1988).
Unfortunately, the taxonomic status of a significant number of the species is uncertain and the nomenclature, of others is confused. More than 50 species have been recorded from Europe, most of them from southern, parts of the continent. There is no key in which all the known European species are included and the keys, which do exist, do not inspire confidence. The most comprehensive keys are those of Stackelberg (1961).

Best wishes

PIERRE
http://cyrille.du...orange.fr/
http://www.hoverf...portal.php
 
http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/
Lukasz Mielczarek
Specimens have been collected in 1976 by Miroslaw Soszynski and are part of a larger and very interesting, mainly Balkan colection. I've never been in Bulgaria.
I am convinced that this isn't E. ovatus. There are no red spots on the tergites in both specimens, the eyes are meet in greater length than one point, so not E. bayardi.
Gerard, I can borrow specimens for youWink
Lukasz
 
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