Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912 (Figs. 4-6, 7) Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912: 443. Type locality: Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). Diagnosis: Eumerus vestitus can be easily characterized by the following characters: eyes holoptic in males (Fig. 4D), dichoptic in females (Fig. 5D), sparsely covered with short yellowish hairs;vertex with yellowish hairs,ocellar triangle dark brown(Fig.5E);face densely covered with white hairs; scutellum dark brown, hind margin with distinctly long yellowish hairs (Fig. 5A);male with swollen hind basitarsus bearing long bristle-like black hairs dorsolaterally (Fig.6F); abdominal tergites II-IV with an oblique greyish stripe; sternite IV in male with U-shaped depression medially, with ventrally thick spatulated microtrichia (Figs. 6 A-B). Material examined: Pakistan. Punjab province, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, 1♂, 2♀, 22.x.2016; 1♂, 15.vii.2017; 1♂, 14.x.2017, leg. M.A. Hassan (NIM). Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab: Rawalpindi), new country record, – Arabian Peninsula, Egypt (Ezbet El Nakhl), Greece (Santorini Island), Guinea-Bissau, India (New Delhi), Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen (Bezzi, 1912; Efflatoun, 1922; Curran, 1938; GrkoviĆ et al., 2015; Smith et al., 2017; El-Hawagry et al., 2017; Dawah et al., 2020; Anooj et al., 2020).

Published as part of Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Shehzad, Anjum, Dyola, Urmila, Qasim, Muhammad, Fatima, Noor & Maryam, Zershina, 2022, Two species of the hoverfly genus Eumerus Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) new record for Pakistan, pp. 1-10 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.067, http://zenodo.org/record/7617614