Sciapus Zeller, 1842

Grichanov, I. Ya. & Selivanova, O. O., 2022, The long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Kurile Islands, with description of a new species of the genus Sciapus Zeller, 1842, Far Eastern Entomologist 445, pp. 7-24 : 17

Genus Sciapus Zeller, 1842

NOTES. The Palaearctic species of Sciapus were revised recently (Grichanov & Negrobov,

2014). Later Sciapus negrobovi Naglis et Bartak, 2015 was described from West Palaearctic

( Portugal). The genus contains about 80 species worldwide, including 69 recognized species from the Palaearctic, eight from the Nearctic, two from Oriental regions and three species from Afrotropics. Sciapus is not species-rich in East Palaearctic, containing here eight species with only one Trans-Palaearctic species, Sciapus nervosus (Lehmann, 1822) . The latter is the only representative of the genus in Japan. Below a new species of the genus from Kunashir is described, and an identification key to males of East Palaearctic species is provided.