| Abstract: | The puparial stage is described for each of four saproxylic hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae): Ferdinandea fumipennis Kassebeer, 1999 Kassebeer, C. F. 1999. Eine neue Art der Gattung Ferdinandea Rondani, 1844 (Diptera: Syrphidae) aus Nordafrika.. Dipteron, 2: 153–162. Google Scholar], Mallota dusmeti Andréu, 1926 Andréu, J. 1926. Una lista de sírfidos para contribuir al conocimiento de los dípteros de España.. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Española, 9(5): 98–126. Google Scholar], Myolepta difformis Strobl, 1909 Strobl, G. 1909. Neue österreichische Muscidae Acalyptratae II.. Weiner Entomlogische Zeitung, 28: 283–301. Google Scholar], and Myolepta obscura Becher, 1882 Becher, E. 1882. Ueber die ersten Stande einiger Syrphiden und eine neue Myiolepta Art.. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 1: 249–254. Crossref] , Google Scholar]. Early stages were collected at Cabañeros National Park in Ciudad Real province, central Spain. Mallota dusmeti, M. difformis, and M. obscura were found in water‐filled holes of live Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl. trees and the larva of F. fumipennis was found in a sap run on a live Quercus pyrenaica Wild. tree. Larvae were identified by rearing them to the adult stage. Puparia of these species possessed generic‐level characters found in congenerics. Apparent species‐level characters separating them from early stages of congenerics are proposed. The records reported here are the first for the Iberian Peninsula of M. obscura. Mallota dusmeti, M. difformis, and Myolepta obscura are extremely rare in Europe with M. dusmeti classed as “vulnerable” in the Spanish Invertebrate Red Data Book. |
