Pelecocera pergandei (Williston)

Mengual, Ximo, Kazerani, Farzaneh, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Gilasian, Ebrahim, 2015, A revision of the genus Pelecocera Meigen with the description of the male of Pelecocera persiana Kuznetzov from Iran (Diptera: Syrphidae), Zootaxa 3947 (1), pp. 99-108 : 102

Pelecocera pergandei (Williston)

Differential diagnosis. Pelecocera pergandei has a shiny pleuron, narrow frons, yellow face with a medial black fascia and black gena, and abdominal terga 2–4 with a yellow fascia. It differs from P. tricincta by having postpronotum black (yellow in P. tricincta ) and the male has the eye margins almost parallel on level of frons (approximating each other in P. tricinta ). For a full description see Williston (1884).

Distribution. Single Nearctic species of this genus, occurring from south Ontario in Canada eastwards to New York, and southwards to Mississippi and Georgia in U.S.A.

Material examined. USA: Maryland, Rosedale, 10.x.1986, M. Takau [1♀, USNM; USNM ENT 00035261]; Maryland, Glen Echo, 26.ix.1926, N.K. Bigelow [1♂, CNC]; Mississippi, Webster Co., The Cove, T20N, R8E, Sec. 12, 7 mi W Walthall, 19.x – 4.11.1988, T.L. Schiefer, malaise trap in mixed mesic forest ravine [1♀, USNM; USNM ENT 00035269].