Revision of the genus Pelecocera Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from France: taxonomy, ecology and distribution

Abstract

The occurrence and distribution of the various species of the genus Pelecocera Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) occurring in France are revised and a new species, Pelecocera garrigae Lair & Nève, 2022 sp. nov., is described from Mediterranean France. Distribution and ecological data of the six French species of Pelecocera are provided and an identification key is given to all these species. Sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) from all European Pelecocera species support the morphological species concept, except for Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817). The binomen Pelecocera lugubris Perris, 1839 is recovered to name the Pelecocera lusitanica (Mik, 1898) of authors in France.

Pelecocera (Pelecocera) tricincta and Pelecocera (Chamaesyrphus) caledonica (Diptera, Syrphidae) reared from Rhizopogon fungal host in Finland

“…for the missing data). In the study of Lair et al (2022) , the authors noted that the COI barcodes of Pelecocera pruinosomaculata and P. scaevoides were resolved as intermixed in their tree, with a mean distance of 0.8% between the taxa. This study utilied part of the same sequences used by Lair et al (2022) and uses the same taxon names and also recovers the COI barcodes of mentioned taxa as clustering together (Fig.…”

“…For the Nearctic region, three other Pelecocera sg. Chamaesyrphus species are listed ( Skevington 2020 Lair et al 2022 , Skevington 2020 ).…”

New hover fly records for Corsica: results from Our Planet Reviewed in Corsica 2019-2021 (Diptera, Syrphidae)

“…Anasimyia Schiner, 1864 (Claussen & Torp, 1980); Brachyopa Meigen, 1822 (Pellmann, 1998); Callicera Panzer, 1809 (Speight, 1991;Smit, 2014); Ceriana Rafinesque, 1815 (van Steenis et al, 2016); Claussenia Vujić & Ståhls, 2013(Vujić et al, 2013; Doros Meigen, 1803 (Speight, 1988);Eumerus Meigen, 1822(Van der Goot, 1968Doczkal, 1996;Speight et al, 2021); Merodon Meigen, 1803 (Vujić et al, 2021;and references therein); Myolepta Newman, 1838 (Reemer et al, 2004); Neocnemodon Goffe, 1944 (Bartsch, 2009); Paragus Latreille, 1804 (Goeldlin de Tiefenau, 1976;Goeldlin de Tiefenau & Lucas, 1981;Marcos-García, 1986;Marcos-García & Rojo, 1994;Sommaggio, 2002); Pelecocera Meigen, 1822(van Eck & Mengual, 2021Lair et al, 2022); and Riponnensia Maibach, Goeldlin de Tiefenau & Speight, 1994 (Claussen, 1991;Bot et al, 2023).…”

“…Mengual et al (2015b) synonymized P. lusitanica under Pelecocera (Chamaesyrphus) lugubris Perris, 1839 without studying the type material, but van Eck & Mengual (2021) suggested to use P. lusitanica until a comprehensive molecular study can be carried out using specimens from Northern, Central and Southern Europe, including the Iberian Peninsula. Lair et al (2022) demonstrated that the name for the specimens identified as P. lusitanica from mainland France (all records are from the Atlantic coast) is P. lugubris. Thus, the question about the synonymy proposed by Mengual et al (2015b) remains open and we decided to use P. lusitanica for the studied Corsican specimens as they do not originate from mainland France.…”

First Morpho-Functional Assessment of Immature Stages of Pelecocera Species (Diptera: Syrphidae) Feeding on False Truffles

“…Pelecocera ( Pelecocera ) tricincta Meigen, 1822 and Pelecocera ( Chamaesyrphus ) lugubris Perris, 1839 are two of the eight species occurring in Europe [ 4 ]. However, the number of species in Europe remains unclear because a worldwide revision of the genus is needed to resolve all the taxonomic doubts that exist at the species level.…”