This paper is an updated Catalogue of Syrphidae from Colombia, including 337 species belonging to 3 subfamilies, 11 tribes, 57 genera and 16 subgenera. Each species is listed under its current accepted taxon, including the original reference, type locality, distribution by state/province in Colombia, in addition to a complete bibliographic reference. Species in the genera Calostigma, Claraplumula, Eristalinus, Fazia, Hermesomyia, Hybobathus, Mimocalla, Menidon, Monoceromyia, Orphnabaccha, Pelecinobaccha, Peradon, Rhinoprosopa, Sphiximorpha and Styxia are listed for the first time from Colombia. The advance in the knowledge of the Colombian Syrphidae is briefly discussed.

Two new species of Quichuana Knab (Diptera: Syrphidae), Quichuana citara Montoya & Wolff sp. n. and Quichuana nigropilosa Montoya & Ricarte sp. n. are described from highlands of the Colombian Andes. Images of type material, including drawings of male genitalia are provided. An adjustment for the latest identification key for the Quichuana species and distribution maps for those species occurring in Colombia are given.

This paper presents an experimental study on specimens made with the additive manufacturing (AM) Fused Deposition Material (FDM) technique with PLA material. Several configurations of geometry and printing temperature were made in order to evaluate these parameters over a tensile test. The geometry of the specimen was fabricated according to the ASTM D638 and the curvatures of fillet radius were varied (76-std, 144, 244mm and straight) to obtain optimal fillet radius for tensile test. The nozzle temperature was varied (200, 210, 220 and 230°C) to show its influence on PLA stress-strain behavior. Results have shown that the fillet radius of the specimen and the printer parameters affect material quantity deposited during 3D printing process, leaving to progressive damage areas. Better performance was obtained at 210 °C printing temperature with a fillet radius of 144 mm. A modification geometry specimen were proposed in order to change the increase Z nozzle level point that generates a stress concentrator at the specimen avoiding failure zone at calibrating length of the specimen.

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La diversidad taxonómica y funcional de los sírfidos los hace fundamentales en los ecosistemas. Además, su sensibilidad a la fragmentación del hábitat por factores antrópicos los hace buenos indicadores ecológicos de la conservación ecosistémica. Establecimos si las comunidades de sírfidos están relacionadas con coberturas vegetales en un gradiente de intervención antrópica en un área boscoso-montañosa de la ciudad de Bogotá. Las coberturas vegetales se identificaron con la metodología de coberturas de uso de la tierra y el sistema Corine Land Cover. Los insectos se recolectaron activamente durante los picos de máxima actividad diaria en un periodo de transición seco-húmedo. Las comunidades de sírfidos y su relación con las coberturas se evaluaron estimando el número efectivo de especies y un análisis de componentes principales (ACP). Se identificaron tres coberturas: Vegetación Secundaria Alta, Tejido Urbano Discontinuo y Bosque Ripario. Los 381 individuos recolectados pertenecen a 24 especies agrupadas en dos subfamilias. Las comunidades de sírfidos en la Vegetación Secundaria Alta y el Bosque Ripario presentaron números efectivos de especies superiores a los hallados en el Tejido Urbano Discontinuo. El ACP sugirió una estrecha asociación entre las especies Lejops mexicanus y Toxomerus watsoni con el Tejido Urbano Discontinuo y la Vegetación Secundaria Alta, mientras Palpada florea, Syrphus shorae, Orphnabaccha golbachi y Allograpta exotica lo son con el Bosque Ripario. La abundancia de sírfidos fue más alta en las coberturas con espacios abiertos y su diversidad fue influenciada por la heterogeneidad y antropización de las coberturas, patrón registrado por primera vez en el Neotrópico.

The adult stage of a new flower fly species, Copestylum enriquei sp. nov. (Diptera: Syrphidae) is described based on a single male collected in pristine rainforest in the Amazonian region of Colombia (type-locality: Florencia, Caquetá) and two females from a conserved forest in Suriname (Para and Brokopondo). Copestylum enriquei sp. nov. belongs to the C. vagum species group and is similar in appearance to Copestylum vagum (Wiedemann), C. musicanum (Curran), C. tenorium Ricarte & Rotheray, and C. chapadensis (Curran) from which it differs by the gena and face separated by a very broad brown vitta; scutum orange except for the wide medial vitta, which is dark and metallic, ending before the prescutellar region, with the apical margin M-shaped; tibiae dark-brown, except yellow on basal 1/4. The male genitalia of C. enriquei sp. nov. are unique and striking among the C. vagum species group, characterized by the epandrium and cercus black, contrasting with the colour of hypandrium and surstylus, which are orange; epandrium with a dorsal extension, a novel character among this species group, in addition to the L-shaped surstylus, with two pairs of rounded ridges in the dorsal edge, similar to a small deer antler in velvet. Images of type material, including photographs of male genitalia are provided. A comparison of the diagnostic characters is provided as well as modifications to the previous keys to distinguish C. enriquei sp. nov. from the other species of the C. vagum group. The species Copestylum araceorum Ricarte & Rotheray and C. tenorium Ricarte & Rotheray are recorded for the first time in the Amazonian rainforest in Colombia.

Flower flies of the genus Cepa are endemic to the Neotropical region and Cepa apeca is currently known only from Costa Rica. Here we report the first record of C. apeca in Colombia based on a single female collected using a canopy trap in a dense secondary forest in a mountainous ecosystem in the locality of Vereda San Francisco, municipality of Florencia-Caquetá, at an altitude of 643 m.a.s.l. This finding constitutes the first record of the genus Cepa in Colombia and expands the geographic range of Cepa apeca by approximately 1,500 km (straight line) southwards to South America. Our finding represents the southernmost occurrence of the species and contributes to the incipient knowledge on the Diptera diversity in the Colombian Andean-Amazonian region.

The morphological similarities between five new large Argentinomyia species and Talahua fervida Fluke are characterized and presented. Six new species of Argentinomyia (10–12 mm long) are described: Argentinomyia andina Montoya & Wolff, sp. nov. (Colombia), Argentinomyia choachi Montoya, sp. nov. (Colombia), Argentinomyia quimbaya Montoya & Wolff, sp. nov. (Colombia), Argentinomyia huitepecensis Montoya, sp. nov. (México), Argentinomyia puntarena Montoya, sp. nov. (Costa Rica), and Argentinomyia talamanca Thompson, sp. nov. (Costa Rica). The genus Talahua Fluke is re-diagnosed and, Talahua fervida redescribed. A taxonomic key and a comparison of diagnostic characters are presented. Photographs of head, abdominal and wing maculae patterns, as well as illustrations of male genitalia are provided for species identification.