Peradon hermetia (Curran) Figs 34, 105, 206-209, 261

Microdon hermetia Curran, 1936: 3. Holotype ♂: Panama (AMNH) [examined]; Thompson et al. 1976: 65.

Peradon hermetia (Curran): Reemer and Ståhls 2013a: 146.

Studied type specimens.

Panama • 1 ♂, holotype of Microdon hermetia Curran; Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone; 23 Dec. 1928; C.H. Curran leg; AMNH. Label 1: "Barro Colo Isld. / Canal Zone / XII-23-1928"; label 2: "Collector / C.H. Curran"; label 3 (red): "Microdon / hermetia / Curran. [male sign] / Holotype".

Diagnosis.

Body length: male 16 mm. The constricted abdomen, absence of a triangle of golden pile on the mesoscutum, and partly dark wings place this species in a group with P. diaphanus, P. elongatus, and P. hermetoides . From P. diaphanus it differs by tergite 2 being wider than long, from P. elongatus by the absence of yellow in the vena spuria, from P. hermetoides by the partly hyaline wing cell bm. The male genitalia are figured in Fig. 261.

Distribution.

Only known from the type specimen from Panama.