Rego Carla, Smit John, Aguiar António Franquinho, Cravo Délia, Penado Andreia, Boieiro Mário
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon Lisboa Portugal.
European Invertebrate Survey - the Netherlands / Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands European Invertebrate Survey - the Netherlands / Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden Netherlands.
Biodivers Data J. 2022 Mar 21;10:e78518. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e78518. eCollection 2022.
Syrphid flies are important ecological indicators and provide crucial ecosystem services, being important pollinators and biological control agents of insect pests. These charismatic insects are conspicuous and, due to their size and colourful patterns, are relatively easy to identify. However, the lack of user-friendly literature (e.g. photographic guides) for most areas may hamper its wider selection as a study group in biodiversity and ecological studies. The syrphid fauna of Madeira Archipelago comprises 26 species, including four endemics ( Smit, Aguiar & Wakeham-Dawson, 2004; Wakeham-Dawson, Aguiar, Smit, McCullough & Wyatt, 2004; , Wollaston, 1858 and , Walker, 1849), but, despite the current good taxonomic knowledge on this group, information on species distribution, ecology and conservation is still lacking. Here, we provide a pictorial key to the adult hoverflies of Madeira Archipelago highlighting diagnostic characteristics and present photographs of both males and females (in dorsal and lateral views) in colour plates. The key and plates will help researchers to differentiate these species, thus encouraging the use of this insect group in future bioindication studies. In addition, this study also aims to engage a broader audience of non-experts in improving the knowledge on the distribution and ecology of Madeira syrphids.
We provide a checklist for the hoverflies of Madeira Archipelago and a pictorial key to help on species identification.
食蚜蝇是重要的生态指标物种，提供关键的生态系统服务，是重要的传粉者和害虫生物防治剂。这些具有魅力的昆虫很显眼，由于其体型和色彩图案，相对容易识别。然而，大多数地区缺乏便于使用的文献（如摄影指南），这可能会阻碍其在生物多样性和生态研究中作为一个研究群体被更广泛地选用。马德拉群岛的食蚜蝇动物区系包括26个物种，其中有4个特有种（斯密特、阿吉亚尔和韦克姆 - 道森，2004年；韦克姆 - 道森、阿吉亚尔、斯密特、麦卡洛和怀亚特，2004年；沃拉斯顿，1858年；以及沃克，1849年），但是，尽管目前对该类群有良好的分类学知识，但关于物种分布、生态和保护的信息仍然缺乏。在此，我们提供了一个马德拉群岛成年食蚜蝇的图解检索表，突出诊断特征，并在彩色图版中展示了雄性和雌性（背面和侧面视图）的照片。该检索表和图版将帮助研究人员区分这些物种，从而鼓励在未来的生物指示研究中使用这个昆虫类群。此外，本研究还旨在让更广泛的非专家群体参与进来，以增进对马德拉食蚜蝇分布和生态的了解。
我们提供了一份马德拉群岛食蚜蝇的清单和一个图解检索表，以帮助进行物种鉴定。
