Brachyopa quadrimaculosa Thompson

Pérez-Bañón, Celeste, Radenković, Snezana, Vujić, Ante, Ståhls, Gunilla, Rojo, Santos, Grković, Ana & Petanidou, Theodora, 2016, Brachyopa minima (Diptera: Syrphidae), a new species from Greece with notes on the biodiversity and conservation of the genus Brachyopa Meigen in the Northern Aegean Islands, Zootaxa 4072 (2), pp. 217-234 : 222

Brachyopa quadrimaculosa Thompson in Kaplan & Thompson

Material studied. Greece, Lesvos, Agiassos, Sanatorio, 0 1.05.2008, 1 male, leg. Vujić; Greece, Samos, Manolates (on Smyrnium sp.), 17.04.2011, 12 males (G0302, G0303 ( DNA voucher specimen FSUNS –Y1447_J–001), G0305, G0307–G0309, G0311–G0313, G0315, G0316), 2 females (G0304 = DNA voucher specimen FSUNS – Y1448_J–002, G0314), leg. Vujić and Radenković; Samos, Pyrgos, 15.04.2011, 1 male (G0317), leg. Vujić and Radenković; (all in FSUNS).

Comments. The species was originally described from Israel ( Kaplan & Thompson 1981) and first recorded for Europe by Speight (2013), who cites it from Evros province in North Eastern Greece (M. De Courcy, pers. comm.). Later, van Steenis & van Steenis (2014) published a record of a taxon related to B. quadrimaculosa from Samos Island based on one female. They indicated that this taxon differs morphologically from B. vernalis van Steenis & van Steenis and B. quadrimaculosa . After studying a paratype of B. quadrimaculosa (male, Israel, Mongort, 4 March 1976, leg. A. Friedberg & M. Kaplan, coll. TAU), it can be confirmed that this specimen does not belong to an undescribed species but is conspecific with B. quadrimaculosa . The diagnostic characters of this species are presented in the key (see below).