Cheilosia (Endoiasimyia) indiana (Bigot, 1883)

Barkalov, Anatolij V. & Ståhls, Gunilla, 2022, Cheilosia (Diptera, Syrphidae: Rhingiini) of Nepal with descriptions of 29 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 829 (1), pp. 1-127 : 59-60

Cheilosia (Endoiasimyia) indiana (Bigot, 1883)

Figs 31 , 32A

Endoiasimyia indiana Bigot, 1883 in Brunetti, 1923: 153.

Endoiasimyia indiana Bigot, 1882 [sic] – Ghorpadé 2015: 6.

Differential diagnosis

Cheilosia (Endoiasimyia) indiana shares the diagnostic characters of eye and face with pilosity, a plumose arista and proepisternum of propleuron with a dorso-lateral spur with other members of the subgenus. Wing with faint brownish-black cloud from about mid of discal cell to wing tip. Cheilosia (E.) indiana differs from other members of the subgenus by scutum lacking brown pollinose vittae anterior and posterior to transverse suture.

Material examined

NEPAL • 1 ♂; Ktmd. [ Kathmandu ] Pulchauk ; 6600 ft a.s.l.; 21 Jul. 1967; Can. Nepal Exped.; CNC • 1 ♀; Ktmd. [ Kathmandu ] Godavari ; 6000 ft a.s.l.; 15 July 1967; Can. Nepal Exped.; CNC • 1 ♀; 28°00′ N, 85°00′ E; 11 100 ft a.s.l.; 17 May 1967; Can. Nepal Exped.; CNC • 1 ♀; Solukhumbu above Pangum; 2500 m a.s.l.; 27°35′ N, 86°43′ E; 14–15 May 1997; Hauser leg. [522]; CSCA .

Distribution

India, Nepal.

Figures

Fig. 31. Cheilosia (Endoiasimyia) indiana (Bigot, 1883). A. Head, lateral view. B. Antenna, lateral view of pedicel and basoflagellomere. C. Superior lobe of hypandrium, lateral view. D. Surstylus and gonocercus, lateral view. E. Aedeagus and aedeagal apodeme, lateral view. After Barkalov & Cheng 2004. Scale bars indicated in drawings.

Fig. 32. A. Cheilosia (Endoiasimyia) indiana (Bigot, 1883), female head (CNC). – B–C. Cheilosia (Floccocheila) indistincta sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (IBSJW/NME); dorsal and lateral views. – D–E. Cheilosia insolita sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (CNC); dorsal and lateral views. Photo: Pekka Malinen, FMNH Luomus. Scale bars = 1 mm.