Scoliaphleps ustulata ( Zetterstedt, 1838 )

Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1), pp. 111-196 : 126

Scoliaphleps ustulata ( Zetterstedt, 1838)

Cordylura ustulata Zetterstedt, 1838: 727 . SYNTYPES: J ♀, ‘ Nordlandiae [= Norway]’, ‘ Björkvik [= Bjerkvik]’ and Giesbotstad; Sweden, ‘ Lapponia Tornensis [= Torne Lappmark], Juckasjervi’ ( MZLU) .

Cordylura marginipennis Gimmerthal, 1847: 1 . HOLOTYPE: J, ‘Curland’ [= Kurland, currently in Latvia]. Synonymized by LOEW (1873: 249).

Note. Gimmerthal’s collection was destroyed during Word War II (†A. A. Stackelberg, pers. comm.).

Cordylura melanacra Loew, 1873:247 .‘LECTOTYPE’: ♀, Poland,‘ Schlesien [= Silesia], Roseth.–D.[?], 14.iv.[18]51, coll. H. Loew’; designated as lectotype by J. R.Vockeroth (designation not published) ( ZMHB).Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1977b: 397) .

Scoliaphleps hyalinipennis Ringdahl, 1936:163 , syn. nov. HOLOTYPE: J, Sweden, ‘ Hälsingborg [= Helsingborg]’ (probably MZLU).

Note. Scoliaphleps hyalinipennis is here proposed as a junior synonym of S.ustulata ; all characters (including the size) are within the limits of the variability of S. ustulata .

Distribution. Austria ( FRANZ 1989: 115); Belgium (DE JONG 2005); Czech Republic ( ŠIFNER 2003a: 19); Estonia ( ELBERG 1965: 348); Finland ( HACKMAN 1980: 130); Germany ( PÜCHEL 1999: 186); Great Britain ( CHANDLER 1998: 163); Hungary (DELY- DRASKOVITS 1981: 16, PAPP 2001a: 382); Latvia ( GIMMERTHAL 1847: 1); Mongolia ( ŠIFNER 1975: 220); Norway ( NELSON & GREVE 2002: 45); Poland (DRABER- MONKO 1991: 231); Russia – European Russia, West Siberia, East Siberia ( GORODKOV 1970: 448); Sweden ( HEDSTRÖM 1991: 143); Nearctic region ( VOCKEROTH 1965: 830).