Megaphthalma pallida
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Description
Megaphthalma pallida (Fallén, 1819)
[Japanese name: Seobi-kiiro-funbae]
(Figs 28–29)
Cordylura pallida Fallén, 1819: 8. Type-locality: “Westrogothis… Scania ” [Sweden].
Material examined. Hokkaido, 2 ♀, Iwanai Riv., Obihiro, Tokachi, 19. ix. 1995, leg. M. Iwasa. Diagnosis. This species is recognized by the following characteristics: frons, face, parafacial, and gena yellow; prescutum and scutum dark brown; postpronotum and thoracic pleura yellow; scutellum yellow with a pair of apical setae (Fig. 28); legs wholly yellow; abdominal tergites wholly yellow with narrow black line on each posterior margin (Fig. 29).
Body length (♀). 5.5–6.0 mm.
Distribution. Europe, Japan (Hokkaido), Russia (the European part, Siberia, the Far East) (Bagachanova et al., 2016), North America. New to Japan.
Remarks. Available specimens of this species are females, but as a result of my examination of specimens of M. pallida preserved in the Museum National d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), the characteristics agreed with those of female M. pallida.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1995-09-19
- Family
- Scathophagidae
- Genus
- Megaphthalma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fallen
- Species
- pallida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1995-09-19
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megaphthalma pallida (Fallen, 1819) sec. Iwasa, 2021
References
- Fallen, C. F. (1819) Scatomyzidae Sveciae. Berlingianis, Lundae [Lund], 10 pp.
- Bagachanova, A. K., Ovchinnikov, A. N. & Ozerov, A. L. (2016) On the fauna of Scathophagidae (Diptera) of Yakutia. Entomological Review, 96, 775 - 785. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873816060087