Merodon cabanerensis Marcos-Garcia , Vujic & Mengual, 2007

Vujic, Ante, Radenkovic, Snezana & Likov, Laura, 2018, Revision of the Palaearctic species of the Merodondesuturinus group (Diptera, Syrphidae), ZooKeys 771, pp. 105-138 : 110-111

Merodon cabanerensis Marcos-Garcia, Vujic & Mengual, 2007 Figs 6D, 9, 10

Diagnosis.

Small (8-11 mm) dark species with narrow abdomen, oral margin notched, evident, basoflagellomere small, 1-1.1 times as long as broad, legs dark. Terga mostly black, terga 2-4 with or without only a trace of transverse pair of microtrichose fasciae. Males: eye contiguity 8-10 facets long. Male genitalia with smooth thecal ridge, posterior surstyle lobe very narrow in apical half with parallel margins (Fig. 9). Similar to M. neolydicus nom. n., from which it differs by its smaller size (10-13 mm in M. neolydicus nom. n.), the shape of the male genitalia (Figs 1, 9), and its distribution ( M. cabanerensis is found in the Western Mediterranean and M. neolydicus nom. n. occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean).

Examined material.

Type material. Holotype: male, pinned, in CEUA. Original label: "Spain, Ciudad Real, Canalejas, P. N. de Cabañeros, 39°24'17.03"N, 4°30'35.73"W, 19.iii.2004, leg. A. Ricarte".

Paratypes: Spain: 1m+1f, Ciudad Real, Canalejas, P. N. de Cabañeros, 39°24'17.03"N, 4°30'35.73"W, 19.iii.2004, leg. A. Ricarte (CEUA); 1m, Ciudad Real, Canalejas, P. N. de Cabañeros, 39°24'17.03"N, 4°30'35.73"W, 19.iii.2004, leg. A. Ricarte (MNMS); 1m, Ciudad Real, Canalejas, P. N. de Cabañeros, 39°24'17.03"N, 4°30'35.73"W, 19.iii.2004, leg. A. Ricarte (FSUNS).

Additional material.

Morocco: 1m, Azilal, Ait Mhamed, 31°52'19.39"N, 6°29'6.72"W, 1700m, 26.iii.2013, leg. J. Dils, J. Faes (V.Weyer coll.).

Distribution.

Iberian Peninsula and Morocco (Fig. 10).