Swammerdamella brevicornis
Authors/Creators
- 1. State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, MARA Key Lab of Surveillance and Management for Plant Quarantine Pests, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- 2. Xizang Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University 860000, China
- 3. Natural History Museum of China, Beijing 100050, China
Description
2. Swammerdamella brevicornis (Meigen, 1830) ĦssDzĸxü
Scatopse brevicornis Meigen, 1830. Syst. Besch., VI: 314. Type locality: not given.
Description. Male. Body length 1.6–1.9 mm, wing length 1.4–1.6 mm. Morphological characters as in Cook 1956.
Material Examined. 2♂, China, Qinghai Province, Qilian [Ēê], Huangzangsi [Wëȕ] [38°25’ N, 100°19’ E, 2588m], 2023. VIII. 2, Shang Gao (CAU).
Distribution. China (Qinghai Province); Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain (Canary Islands), Spain (Continental), Sweden, Switzerland.
Remarks. According to the literature record, this species has a wide distribution in Eurasia (Ebejer 2021; Haenni 2013; Haenni & Kettani 2011; Hrviniak et al. 2018; Oboňa et al. 2017) and can be separated from other species of this genus by the characters of male terminalia and tergite 7. The two males available were collected by sweeping net in Qinghai Province, belonging to the Palaearctic Region.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CAU
- Event date
- 2023-08-02
- Verbatim event date
- 2023-08-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Meigen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Scatopsidae
- Genus
- Swammerdamella
- Species
- brevicornis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Swammerdamella brevicornis (Meigen, 1830) sec. Xiao, Hong, Li & Yang, 2025
References
- Meigen, J. W. (1830) 11. Scatopse brevicornis. In: Meigen, J. W. & Loew, H. (Eds.), Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vol. 6. Friedrich Wilhelm Forstmann: Gedrukt bei Beaufort Sohn, Aachen, pp. 314. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12464
- Cook, E. F. (1956) A Contribution towards a monograph of the Scatopsidae (Diptera). Part IV. The genus Swammerdamella Enderlein. Annals of the entomological Society of America, 49 (1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/49.1.15
- Ebejer, M. (2021) The families Bibionidae and Scatopsidae in Malta (Diptera: Nematocera). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 157 (1), 35-37.
- Haenni, J. P. (2013) Fauna Europaea: Scatopsidae. In: Pape, T. & Beuk, P. (Eds.), Fauna Europaea: Diptera Nematocera. Archived version, Available on PESI portail. Available from: https://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/search.php?search=adv (accessed 20 October 2025)
- Haenni, J. P., Kettani, K. (2011) Premiere note sur les Scatopsidae du Maroc, avec la description d'une espece nouvelle (Diptera). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 116 (1), 73-79. https://doi.org/10.3406/bsef.2011.2907
- Obona, J., Dvorak, L., Haenni, J. P., Manko, P., Hrivniak, L. & Papyan, L. (2017) New records of Diptera families Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Dixidae, Ptychopteridae and Scatopsidae from Armenia. Spixiana, 40 (1), 61-67.