Palpada nigripes

Palpada nigripes (Wiedemann, 1830) Fig. 63 Eristalis nigripes Wiedemann, 1830: 165 Type locality and data. Brazil (T, ♀, NMW). Material examined. Arica y Parinacota: 1♀, Boca Rio Lluta, 4.IV.1974, Leg. H. Vasquéz (UTA); Metropolitana: 1♀, Maipú, 14.II.1948, Leg. L. Peña (CNC). References. Wiedemann, 1830: 165 (desc.); Kertész, 1910: 227 (cat.); Shannon & Aubertin, 1933: 160 (desc.); Thompson et al., 1976: 107 (cat.); Lagrange, 1992: 151 (key & desc.); Reemer, 2016: 131, fig. 93 (dorsal habitus, female) (cat. & key); Miranda & Moran, 2016: 8, fig. 4, 5, 16, 23 (female terminalia). World distribution. Suriname, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Chilean distribution. Only recorded fom Arica y Parinacota region (Fig. 65). Altitudinal range. This species inhabits transverse valleys between 100 and 500 m. a.s.l. Biology and notes. Palpada nigripes is here reported from Chile for the first time. The species inhabits the Lluta valley and surrounding areas probably associated with crops. Other aspects of its biology and ecology remain unknown. Conservation status. LC; AOO = 8 km 2 and two localities (or subpopulations).The species is widely distributed in all South America.
Published as part of Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Riera, Pamela, Pañinao-Monsálvez, Laura, Guzmán, Vicente Valdés & Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia, 2021, Updating the knowledge of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Chile: Illustrated catalog, extinction risk and biological notes, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 4959 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4693464
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