title: Brachyopa minima (Diptera: Syrphidae), a new species from Greece with notes on the biodiversity and conservation of the genus Brachyopa Meigen in the Northern Aegean Islands.
abstract: An on-going study of the hoverfly fauna of the Northern Aegean Islands (Greece) has revealed the presence of four species of the genus Brachyopa Meigen. During the survey the following species were found: B. bicolor (Fallén), B. quadrimaculosa Thompson in Kaplan & Thompson, B. minima Vujić & Pérez-Bañón sp. nov. and an unidentified species very close to B. pilosa (Collin). Morphological characters and mitochondrial COI barcodes were used to link different life stages of B. minima, and to identify a larval specimen of B. bicolor. In this study adult and larval morphology and habitat preferences for B. minima are described. The description of larval morphology of B. bicolor and Brachyopa sp. aff. pilosa is amended too. An identification key to the adults of the B. quadrimaculosa group sensu Kassebeer (2002) in the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Israel and Turkey) is provided. The importance of specific microhabitats for the continued existence of these taxa is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources, University of Alicante, P.O. 99 Alicante E-03080, Spain; Email: celeste.perez@ua.es.
authors.forename: Celeste
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pérez-Bañón
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Snezana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Radenković
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Ante
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vujić
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, University Hill, GR-81100 Mytilene, Greece; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Theodora
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Petanidou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D062312:Islands; D007814:Larva / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008297:Male