Empis kamtchatica Frey 1935
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kamtchatica Frey, 1935: 5 (Empis (Polyblepharis))
Current name. A junior synonym of Empis (Polyblepharis) subciliata Loew, 1871.
Type locality (by lectotype fixation): Russia, Kamchatka, “Bolscherjetsk” [=Ust-Bolscheretsk].
Notes on the type series. Frey described this species after the female sex only. He noted the following material: “ 2 ♀, Kamtchatka (Malaise). Ausserdem im Museum zu Helsingfors 1 ♀ von Kamtchatka: Bolscherjetsk (Wuoren- taus)”.
Type material examined. PARALECTOTYPES: Kamtschatka, Malaise; Spec. typ.; Empis kamtschatica [sic!] Frey [hand-written by Frey], Frey det. (1 ♀, NHRS). Kamtschatka, Malaise (1 ♀, NHRS).
Remarks. Chvála & Wagner (1989) synonymised E. kamtchatica with E. subciliata Loew. Later Chvála (1999: 205) commented on this synonymy. He noted a single female specimen of E. kamtchatica in MZH, and probably based on the Frey type label, assumed erroneously that this specimen was the holotype. I consider Chvála’s statement as a lectotype fixation (sensu O’Hara & Cerretti (2016). Although I could not examine the lectotype. I have studied two paralectotypes from NHRS and can confirm that they agree with Frey’s description and are identical with E. subciliata.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHRS
- Family
- Empididae
- Genus
- Empis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Frey
- Species
- kamtchatica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paralectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Empis kamtchatica Frey, 1935 sec. Shamshev, 2020
References
- Frey, R. (1935) Entomologische Ergebnisse der schwedischen Kamtschatka-Expedition 1920 - 1922. 36. Diptera Brachycera. 5. Empididae, Micropezidae, Lauxaniidae, Chloropidae. Arkiv for Zoologi, 28 A (10), 1 - 8.
- Loew, H. (1871) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. Von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Neunter Theil oder dritter Supplementband. Beschreibung europaischer Dipteren. Zweiter Band. H. W. Schmidt, Halle, 319 pp.
- Chvala, M. & Wagner, R. (1989) Empididae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 6. Therevidae-Empididae. Elsevier Science Publishing, Amsterdam, pp. 228 - 336.
- Chvala, M. (1999) Revision of Palearctic species of the Empis subgenus Polyblepharis (Diptera, Empididae), with descriptions of fourteen new species. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 42 (1998), 113 - 225.
- O'Hara, J. E. & Cerretti, P. (2016) Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera. ZooKeys, 575, 1 - 344. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 575.6072