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The description of male and puparium of Milesia tadzhikorum Peck et Hippa, 1988 (Diptera: Syrphidae) MARINA
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KRIVOSHEINA
Krivosheina, M. G. 2001. The description of male and puparium of Milesia tadzhikorum Peck et Hippa, 1988 (Diptera: Syrphidae). Int. J. Dipteroi, Res., 12(2): 6972. Milesia tadzhikorum Peck et Hippa, 1988, proved to breed in the holes of Populus diversifolia Schrenk on the territory of Tajikistan. The materials contained male specimen what allowed us to describe the male of the species, unknown before. The puparium of the species is described. M. G. Krioosheina, A. N. Seoertzoo Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 33 Leninsky Prospect, 117071 Moscow, Russia. Key words. Diptera, Syrphidae, Milesia, tadzhikorum, male, puparium, description.
puparia of this species were found in upper layers of moist detritus in stump hole. These brief data were repeated in the subsequent works (Teskey, 1976; Maier, 1982).
Introduction
The genus Milesia Latr. is more typical for Oriental region where more than 60 species were described (Hippa, 1990). Three species are known from Southern territories of the USA and three species from Afrotropical region. Five species were registered in. Palaearctic, three of them are known from east Palaearctic (Japan) and only two species are distributed in Southern Europe. One of them - M. semiluctifera (Villers) is also known from Ukraine, Turkmenistan and Transcaucasus, the other - M. crabroniformis (Fabr.) is registered in Transcaucasus (Peck, 1988). The data on the biology of the representatives of the genus are limited. Nearctic species M. oirginiensis (Drury) was reported to breed in moist dust of tree holes (Snow, 1958). Empty
Materials and methods
The work is based on the materials of Milesia tadzhikorum Peck et Hippa, described from females collected in Tajikistan from Vakhsh valley, including those from the neighbourhood of Dzhilikul, Tigrovaya Balka Reservation (peck, Hippa, 1988). The series of imagoes reared from larvae collected on the same territories contained the male specimen. As for the species was described from females we decided to describe male in this work. We have got two puparia of the species what allowed us to describe the puparium too. 69
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3 5 Figs 1-7. Details of male morphology of Milesia tadzhjkorum Peck et Hippa: 1, 2, 3, head dorsally, anteriorly and laterally; 4, abdomen, dorsal view; 5, genitalia, dorsal view; 6, apical part of sternum IX with the superior lobes and aedeagus; 7, genitalia, lateral view.
Acknowledgements
collected in the hole of Populus diversifolia Schrenk, 7.04.1978,·N 171 (M. Danilevsky).
The work was partly financially supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Foundation for Fundamental Researches, Grant N 00~04~48035.
Male. Length 16.0 nun. Wing length 12.0 nun. Head. Eyes holoptic, contacting anteriorly (Fig. 1). Vertical triangle (Thompson, 1999) convex, ocellar triangle flat, occiput like narrow band surrounding eyes posteriorly. Anterior part of vertical triangle yellow, vertex and occiput orange-brown. Face and frontal triangle yellow with short lying light yellow dense pubescence. Face concave without distinct carina, subcranial cavity with anterior opening (Figs 2, 3). Proboscis not projecting above subcranial cavity. Antennae light, orange-brown, 3rd antennal segment round. Arista light, apically darkened,
Description of male
Milesia tadzhikorum Peck et Hippa, 1988 (Figs 1-7) Material. I cJ', 1
