A new species of the genus Eumerus Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Dauria

Mutin V.A. 1
1 Amur State University of Humanities and Pedagogy, Komsomolsk–na– Amure, 681000, Russia

Year: 2026, Number: 542, Pages: 28-32

A new species of hoverfly, Eumerus kochetkovi sp. n., is described and illustrated based on males and females found on Kuku–Khadan Mountain in the Daurian Nature Reserve (East Siberia). New species differs distinctly from known Eumerus species by its entirely black abdominal terga, without pruinosity or yellow or red markings. New species is most similar to Eumerus grunini Barkalov et Mutin, 2024, which also has a uniformly black abdomen except for the yellow posterior margin of tergum IV, but easily distinguished from latter by its bare eyes.

DOI: 10.25221/fee.542.3

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Keywords: Hoverflies, Eumerus, taxonomy, new species, Zabaikalskii Krai, East Siberia, Russia,

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