Random Toxomerus Stuff
Index to Toxomerus Species Diagrams
List of species that have abdomen diagrams or images available
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10YlrEnvpBdu2HhbdoP7VSysL1sOTUre6tXzJ0TdLOhw/
Sources:
Hull 1943: https://archive.org/stream/entomolog232419431944broo#page/n9/mode/2up
Thompson 1981: https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/21160
For resolving synonyms:
http://insectoid.info/insecta/diptera/syrphidae/toxomerus_genus/
http://insectoid.info/insecta/diptera/syrphidae/mesogramma_genus/
See bottom of page here for more resources: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/upupa-epops/14985-identifying-toxomerus-hoverflies
Please let me know if you find any errors or any species not on this list!
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I decided it would be easier to edit and improve as a Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10YlrEnvpBdu2HhbdoP7VSysL1sOTUre6tXzJ0TdLOhw/
Also now anyone should be able to edit, so if you have time that would be awesome. :) Please let me know.
Dr Chris Thompson identified this photo as the undescribed species A from his 1981 West Indies paper: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69332915@N07/8546078829
(It seems to be a perfect match for figure 80 in Hull 1943, Mesogramma luna: https://archive.org/stream/entomolog232419431944broo#page/n49/mode/2up but it doesn't seem to match figure 70 in Thompson 1981, Toxomerus luna here: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/21160/ent_FCT_43_4_.pdf?#page=7)
Random Toxomerus-related papers
Mentions renaming of Mesograpta to Toxomerus https://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/548756
Syrphidae larva of Illinois https://archive.org/details/classificationof16heis/page/n11
T. politus in Brazil (misID'd photo) - http://www.uoguelph.ca/canpolin/Publications/NunesSilva_et_al2010.pdf
About T. pulchellus - https://lasef.org/wp-content/uploads/BSEF/121-4/1897_Dumbardon-Martial.pdf
About T. floralis - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Georg_Goergen/publication/296086060_DNA_barcoding_identifies_an_introduced_hover_fly_species_Diptera_Syrphidae_Syrphinae_in_the_Afrotropics/links/56ebbef508aeb65d759424d1/DNA-barcoding-identifies-an-introduced-hover-fly-species-Diptera-Syrphidae-Syrphinae-in-the-Afrotropics.pdf
T. politus random blog post - https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2014/08/05/corn-tassle-fly-actually-hover-fly/
Description of T. teliger - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25082066
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1941/017865.pdf
Curran 1930 description of a bunch of species (no abdomen diagrams) http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/4363 / http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/4363//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0405.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Giglio-Tos, 1892-1893. Ditteri del Messico. Toxomerus (as Mesogramma) covered in Part II pgs 42-53 (pgs 124-135 of PDF), figures on page 162-163 of PDF. http://bhl-china.org/bhldatas/pdfs/d/ditteridelmessic00gigl.pdf / https://archive.org/details/ditteridelmessic00gigl/page/n161/mode/2up
Bigot, 1882. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. French descriptions of species (no diagrams). https://archive.org/details/diptresnouveau00bigot/page/n539
List of species from Mexico based on Giglio-Tos 1893:
politus
mutuus
duplicatus
? - similar to mutuus & duplicatus
dispar (basilarus, tridentatus, bidentatus = dispar)
rombicus
floralis (subannulatus = floralis)
diversus
ciliatus
virgulatus (confusus = virgulatus)
pictus
marginatus (comma = marginatus)
More from Borges & Couri 2009
aquilinus
lacrymosus
musicus
norma
pulchellus
watsoni
From Metz & Thompson 2001
saphiridiceps
teliger
More from Thompson et al. 1976
annulifer
(alphabeticus = virgulatus)
bistrigus
boscii
circumdatus
ectypus
insignis (elongatus = insignis)
heraldicus
(laciniosus = pulchellus)
linearis
(maculatus = pictus)
quinquecinctus
quinquemaculatus
trilobatus
Common Name Suggestions?
T. pulchellus -- Bean-spotted Calligrapher
T. virgulatus -- Club-shaped Calligrapher (the markings sort of look like playing cards clubs? Maybe?)
T. dispar -- Variable Calligrapher (I'm curious why Skevington et al. chose "Dark-sided"... could be helpful)
T. vertebratus -- Backbone Calligrapher / Chilean Calligrapher?
T. arcifer -- Hook-backed/Hook-shaped Calligrapher
T. pictus -- Tiger Calligrapher
T. mosaicus -- Mosaic Calligrapher
T. mutuus -- Mexican Calligrapher (or Mexican Banded Calligrapher)
T. floralis -- Common Calligrapher / Variable Calligrapher
T. crockeri -- Galapagos Calligrapher
T. duplicatus -- Common Banded Calligrapher (then make T. verticalis to American Banded Calligrapher)
T. basalis -- Sundew Calligrapher
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http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/Syrphidae_Nearctic_Checklist.htm
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