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Spilogona platyfrons Sorokina 2018

  • 1. Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.
  • 2. Laboratory of Insect Genetics, N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkin Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia.

Description

Spilogona platyfrons Sorokina, 2018

Figs 4C, F, I, 5C, F, I

Type locality

RUSSIA: Altai Mountains.

Material examined

Holotype

RUSSIA: 1 ♁, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Shapshal’skiy mountain range, upper part of Shui River, ~ 50º33′ N, 89º50′ E, 2550–2900 m a.s.l., 25 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN).

Paratypes

RUSSIA: 34 ♁♁ 21 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Shapshal’skiy mountain range, upper part of Shui River, ~ 50º33′ N, 89º50′ E, 2550–2900 m a.s.l., 25 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (2 males and 2 females in ZMUM & ZISP, the rest in SZMN); 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, upper part of Naryn-Gol River, 49°49′ N, 89°32′ E, 2520 m a.s.l., 16–19 Jul. 2009, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, environs of Muzdy-Bulak lake, 49º17′ N, 87º39′ E, 2400–2900 m a.s.l., 27 Jun., 1 Jul. 2005, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, 6–8 km NW of Maitobe Mountain, 49º34′ N, 87º43′ E, 2420–2550 m a.s.l., 6–10 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 4 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, environs of Kal’dzhin-Kul’-Bas lake, 49°19′ N, 87°26′ E, 2400–2600 m a.s.l., 18, 20–21 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 17 ♁♁ 3 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Kosh- Agach district, Ukok plateau, south slope of Yuzhno-Chuiskiy range, valley of Tara River, 49°39′ N, 88°13′ E, 2175–2200 m a.s.l., 1–4 Jul. 2006, 11 Jul. 2009, leg. V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, upper part of Zhumaly river, Rodonovyi spring, 49º16′ N, 88º30′ E, 2300 m a.s.l., 24 Jun. 2005, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Ongudai district, Terektinskiy range, upper part of Bolshoi Yaloman River, 2200–2300 m a.s.l., 3 Aug. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Kurayskiy range, 50º20′ N, 87º45′ E, 2500–2800 m a.s.l., 29–30 Jun. 2008, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN); 13 ♁♁ 20 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, environs of Dzhulukul’ lake, 50º28′ N, 89º46′ E, 2200 m a.s.l., 21–24 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 18 ♁♁ 3 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ust-Koksa district, 47 km W of Ust-Koksa, Krasnaya Mountain, 2000–2100 m a.s.l., 50°04′ N, 85°13′ E, 16 Jul. 2015, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 4 ♀♀, Tyva Republic, Morgun-Taiginskii kozhuun, environs of Mugur-Aksy, ~ 50º22′ N, 90º25′ E, 2000–2100 m a.s.l., 22 Jul. 1993, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN).

Distribution

Palaearctic Region: southern Siberia.

Remark

Mountain species, but probably living in the arctic tundra too.

Notes

Published as part of Sorokina, Vera S. & Shaikevich, Elena V., 2018, The identification of the species of the ' Spilogona contractifrons species-group' and the ' Spilogona nitidicauda species-group' (Diptera, Muscidae) based on morphological and molecular analysis, pp. 1-26 in European Journal of Taxonomy 484 on page 20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.484, http://zenodo.org/record/3825664

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
V, SZMN
Event date
2007-07-25
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Spilogona
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Sorokina
Species
platyfrons
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2007-07-25
Taxonomic concept label
Spilogona platyfrons Sorokina, 2018 sec. Sorokina & Shaikevich, 2018

References

  • Sorokina V. S. 2018. Eleven new species of Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 (Diptera, Muscidae) from the Altai Mountains of Russia, with key to species. Zootaxa 4410 (2): 201 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4410.2.1