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Diptera: Syrphidae) Cole mania, 5:1-24 27 December 1988 A new coffee aphid predator, with notes on other Oriental species of Paragus (Diptera: Syrphidae) F. Christian Thompson Systematic Entomology Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, NHB -168, Washington, D. C. 20560, U. S. A. Kumar Ghorpade Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, NHB -169, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560, U. S. A. ABSTRACT. Fourteen Oriental species of Paragus Latreille are treated and keyed. The following three species of the subgenus Paragus s. str. are described as new: annandalei Ghorpade, sp. nov. (northwest Himalayas), brachycerus (Malaya, Java), and sluckenbergi (Philippines) Thompson, spp. nov.; and also two species of the subgenus Pandasyoplhalmus Sluckenberg: goeldlini (Timor), and villipennis (Malaya, Sumatra, Java) Thompson, spp. nov. Paragus (Paragus) brachycerus Thompson, sp. nov. is recorded as a new predator of the coffee aphid, Toxoptera aurantii (Boyer de Fonscolombe), from Java; and its puparium figured. Some olhecjiew and known prey (and flower) records of Paragus spp^ arealso included. Male- tcrminalia of all new species and of alratus de Meijere, politus Wiedemann, and rufocinclus (Brunelti) are illustrated. Leclotypes are designated for Paragus alratus de Meijere, P. laliusculus Walker and P. politus Wiedemann. Paragus keiseri van der Goot is a new junior synonym of P. politus Wiedemann. Tentative synonymies are proposed for Paragus politus Wiedemann (= ? Piphella indica Brunelti, ? Paragus rufiventris Brunetti), and Paragus rufocinclus (Brunetti) (= ? Paragus abrogans Goeldlin de Tiefenau). Graptomyza laliuscula (Walker) (from Paragus) is proposed as a new combination. Paragus quadrifascialus Meigen is a new record for the Indian subcontinent and that of P. bicolor (Fabricius) from there is confirmed. Introduction [Palaearctic Region — 14 species (Sack, 1929: 131-138), Nearctic — two species (Wirth etal., Paragus Latreille, until recently, was 1965: 577-578), Afrotropical — five species (Bezzi, considered a small genus of aphid predators. 1915: 11-15), Oriental — four species (Kertesz, Only a few widespread species — bicolor 1910: 1-8), and Neotropical — one species (Fluke, (Fabricius) (Holarctic), serratus (Fabricius) 1957: 18-19), for a total of 21 species as of the (Palaeotropical) and tibialis (Fallen) (Neogaean) — 1950s]. and some rare and restricted ones, were recognised Stuckenberg (1954a, 1954b) revised the Afrotropical and Oriental (serratus-gtoup only) Manuscript accepted: 14 August 1987. species, discovering that the so-called widespread Correspondent-author: Dr F. Christian Thompson. Present address: Dr Kumar Ghorpade, P. O. Box 2564, and common species, serratus of authors, was a 123 Brigade Road, Bangalore 560 025, India. complex of seven species of more restricted ranges. In this paper, the letters 'm' and 'f' are used for male and female, Stuckenberg used male terminalia, wing respectively. The abbreviation ml = meters. microtrichia, and body punctation, along with the NB: Published for the purposes of Zoological Nomenclature on 14 March 1992, the date the senior author received his only copy. Smithsonian Libraries received their copy on 19 March 1992. How many other copies were distributed and to whom is unknown. F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON & KUMAR GHORPADE [Colemania 5 more traditional character of color, to separate MCSNG Museo Civico de Storia "Giacomo Doria", Genoa, these species. The European species were revised Italy (R.Poggi). through a similar approach by Goeldlin de MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Tiefenau (1971, 1974, 1976). He, likewise, found University, Cambridge, U.S.A. (J.C. Scott). that the common and widespread "species", MNHN Museum National d'Hisloire Naturelle, Paris, France bicolor and tibialis of authors, were (L. Matile). species-complexes. Vockeroth (1986) revised the New World fauna of Paragus and showed that MZL Musee Zoologique, Lausanne, Switzerland (P. Goeldlin de Tiefenau). bicolor (Fabricius) and tibialis (Fallen) did not occur there, but that "bicolor''' of American authors NMB Nalurhislorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland (C. was a complex of seven other species and that Baroni Urbani). "tibialis" of American authors was the Holarctic NMW Naturhislorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (R. species, haemorrhous Meigen. The status of tibialis Lichtenberg - Contreras). and bicolor of authors in the Orient is reviewed here. NRS Naturhistoriska Riksmuseel, Stockholm, Sweden (P.I. The following acronyms are used for Persson). depositories cited in this paper, and the names of PLC Personal collection of Pavel Laska, Olomouc, curators who handled the loans to us are placed in Czechoslovakia. parentheses: SEM Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York, Lawrence, U.S.A. (G.W. Byers). U.S.A. (P.W. Wygodzinsky). TNAU Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, ANIC Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth India (T. Kumaraswami). Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, USNM U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Canberra City, Australia (D.H. Colless). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A. BMNH British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K. (B.H. Coganand K.G.V. Smith). UZM Universitetets Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (L. Lyneborg and B. Petersen). BPBM Bemice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, ZFMAK Zoologisches Forschungsinstilut und Museum U.S.A. (W.A. Sleffan). Alexander Koenig, Bonn, West Germany (H. Ulrich) BPIM Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, ZMUH Zoological Museum of the University, Helsinki, Manila, The Philippines (S.I. Bayubay). Finland (W. Hackman and B. Lindeberg). CAS California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, ZSI Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India (T.N. U.S.A. (P.H. AmaudJr). Ananthakrishnan, A.K. Ghosh, A.N.T. Joseph and CIBCP Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, B.K.Tikader). Pakistan Station, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (M.A. Ghani). CNM Colombo National Museum, Department of National Genus PARAGUS Latreille Museums, Sri Lanka (P.H.D.H. de Silva). Paragus Latreille, 1804: 194. Type-species: Syrphus bicolor Fabricius (by monotypy). CUIC Cornell University Insect Collection, Ithaca, U.S.A. (L.L. Pechuman). Paragus is the only genus of the tribe Paragini, and has been treated well by Stuckenberg (1954a, ILRI Indian Lac Research Institute, Namkum, Ranchi, 1954b), DuSek & Laska (1967: 22), Vockeroth India (R.S. Gokulpure). (1969: 12; 1986), and Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1976). IRSNB Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelies de Belgique, The immature stages of some species have been Brussels, Belgium (P. Vanschuylbroeck). described by Metcalf (1911, 1913), Bhatia & Shaffi ITZ Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie, Zoologisch (1933), Heiss (1938), Dixon (1960), Dusek & Laska Museum, Universiteil van Amsterdam, The (1967), Tao & Chin (1971), Tawfik et al. (1974), Netherlands (T. van Leeuwen). and Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1974). Okuno (1967), KGC Personal collection of Kumar Ghorpade, Bangalore, Laska & Stary (1980), and Ghorpade(l981) listed India. the prey [mainly Homoptera: Aphididae, but also 1985-88] NOTES ON ORIENTAL PARAGUS (DIPTERA : SYRPHIDAE) Adelgidae (Narayanan et al., 1967), Delphacidae - Abdomen more densely and coarsely punctate, punctures (new record here), and Psyllidae (Mathur, 1935)] of as large as largest ommatidium and separated by about twice their diameters; paramere simple, without a hook Japanese, Czechoslovak, and Indian Paragus (Fig. 9) (Malay peninsula, Java) species, respectively. Agarwala et al. (1984) gave a brachycerus Thompson, sp. nov. few published records for "serratus" and "tibialis" from India. Other prey records of Indian species of 7. Wing extensively bare, with almost all of costal, basal and Paragus are mentioned under the appropriate anal cells bare (Fig. 1) : 8 species below. DuSek et al. (1979: 370) listed - Wing extensively microtrichose, with costal, basal and Diplazon laetatorius (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: anal cells almost entirely microtrichose (Fig. 2) (Malay Ichneumonidae) as a parasitoid of Paragus peninsula, Sumatra, Java) ..villipennis Thompson, sp. nov. quadrifascialus Meigen. 8. Male: Paramere greatly enlarged, produced and curved dorsally, more than twice as long as surstylus (Fig. 18), Key to Oriental species of Paragus* fourth sternum with posterior margin emarginate and ventrally produced to accomodate externally visible 1. Scutellum black, without a serrate margin; eye pile parameres; Female: Ventral 'genital opening' formed by uniform and unicolorous 2 eighth tergum and seventh sternum, wide, rounded oval, % Scutellum yellow apically; eye with alternating fasciae of or equal length of fifth sternum (Pakistan, northern India, thick opaque white and thin translucent pale pile 9 Nepal, ? Bhutan, China. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) politus Wiedemann 2. Face entirely yellow, rarely brownish medially (females with brownish black median vitta); abdomen dark, entirely - Male: Paramere small, not produced dorsally, subequal to black, or third tcrgum with narrow yellow spots 3 surstylus (see Gocldlin de Tiefenau, 1976: Fig. 1). fourth sternum with posterior margin truncate; Female: Ventral - Face with median black villa; if vitta weak, then abdomen genital opening' narrow, transverse slit, shorter than Vl extensively red 7 length of fifth sternum (? Iran, ? Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, ?
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