Scathophaga taeniopa ( Rondani, 1866 )

Ozerov, A. L. & Krivosheina, M. G., 2021, A review of the genus Scathophaga Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Scathophagidae) of Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (2), pp. 201-246 : 238-239

Scathophaga taeniopa ( Rondani, 1866)

Figs 4 , 39, 118–120.

taeniopa Rondani, 1866: 27 ; 1867: 111 ( Scatophaga ). Type-locality: “in collibus agri parmensis” (vicinity of Parma, Italy).

ordinata Becker, 1894: 168 ( Scatophaga ). Type-locality: “St. Moritz” ( Switzerland).

REMARK. This species was recorded in Russia from Sayan Mountains and Kuban [ Gorodkov, 1970: 451], Komi and Caucasus [ Gorodkov, 1986: 34], Yakutia [ Veselkin, 1985: 75; Bagachanova et al., 2016: 783], Far East [ Ozerov, Krivosheina, 2014: 219].

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Altai: “Rodonovy istochnik”, 2412 m, Lake Muzdy-Bulak (49.46ºN 88.05ºE), 5.VII.2008, A. Barkalov (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ISEA) ; Bol’shoy Yaloman (50.489ºN 86.416ºE), 9.VII.1967, R. Kamenskaya (1 ♂, ISEA) ; Chuysky ridge, 2185– 2600 m (49.65ºN, 88.22ºE), 12–13.VII.2009, A. Barkalov (1 ♂, 7 ♀♀, ISEA) ; Kosh-Agach, plateau Ukok, 2400 m, Lake Muzdy-Bulak , env. (49.26ºN, 87.65ºE), 10.VII.2008, A. Barkalov (1 ♀, ISEA) ; Onguday env. (50.77ºN 86.09ºE), 8–13.VII.2016, N. Vikhrev (1 ♂, ZMUM) ; Tigirek Vill. (51.13ºN 83.05ºE), 550 m, 9– 12.VII.2014, I. Shamshev (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Amur Oblast: Bol’shoy Never (53.978ºN 124.150ºE), 8.IX.1974, Gorodkov (3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Buryatia: Khamney (50.402ºN 103.868ºE), 28. VI.1971, V. Richter (1 ♂, ZISP) ; Lake Baykal, Pokoyniki env. (53.713ºN 109.049ºE), 21.VII.1962, Gorodkov (2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Mondy env. (51.675ºN 100.992ºE), 17–18.VIII.1962, 18–19.VII., 24.VII. and 4.VIII.1965, Gorodkov (9 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Chelyabinsk Oblast: Kyshtym (55.715ºN 60.551ºE), 23.VII.–2.VIII.1929, Burakova (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Irkutsk Oblast: Listvyanka (51.863ºN 104.866ºE), 24. VI. and 6.VII.1965, Negrobov (2 ♂♂, ZISP) ; Irkutsk: (52.332ºN 104.249ºE), 5.VII.1912, Kornakova (1 ♂, ZISP) ; Kirov Oblast: Kirov env. (58.596ºN 49.663ºE), 28.VIII.1962, Kalinkova (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Komi: Shchel’yayur (65.33ºN 53.43ºE), 12.VIII.1978, Gorodkov (4 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Krasnodar Krai: River Tsetse (ca. 44.614ºN 39.548ºE), 13 and 16. VI.1903, Filipchenko (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Teberdinskiy Nature Reserve , (43.443ºN 41.738ºE), 3.IX.1965, Gorodkov (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Teberdinsky Nature Reserve , “Severnyy priyut” (43.252ºN 41.829ºE), 25.VIII.1980, Tanasiychuk (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Krasnoyarsk Krai: Buyba (52.815ºN 93.294ºE), 3.VIII.1963, Grunin (3 ♂♂, ZISP) ; Lake Il’chir env. (51.973ºN 100.993ºE), 2.VIII.1965, Gorodkov (20 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Moscow and Moscow Oblast: Kosino (55.721ºN 37.847ºE), 8.VIII.1912, E. Smirnov (1 ♀, ZMUM) ; North Ossetia – Alania: Tsey (43.793ºN 43.922ºE), 16.IX.1989, A. Shatalkin (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZMUM) ; Omsk Oblast: Omsk (54.969ºN 73.360ºE), 26. VI.2008, O. Kosterin (1 ♀, ZMUM) ; Primorsky Krai: Gornotaezhnoe (43.697ºN 132.156ºE), 17. VI.1993, M. Mikhaylovskaya (3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Primorsky (43.097ºN 131.587ºE), 26.VIII.1980, Kireychuk (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Smolensk Oblast: “Smolenskoe poozer’e” National Park (55.511ºN 31.839ºE), 12.VIII.1991, Zlobin (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Yakutia: 20 km above of the mouth of the River Biryuk (60.434ºN 119.497ºE), 15.VII. 2008, A. Ovchinnikov (2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Abaga (61.049ºN 132.280ºE), 19.VII. 2008, A. Ovchinnikov (3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Aldan env. (58.609ºN 125.373ºE), 30.VIII.1974, Gorodkov (21 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀, ZISP) ; same place, 3.VIII.1977, G. Veselkin (15 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZMUM) ; Arka (60.077ºN 142.335ºE), 26.VIII.1987, Gorodkov (1 ♂, ZISP) ; Khaptagay (61.785ºN 129.797ºE), 23. VI.–4.VII.1974, L. Zimina, R. Kamenskaya (12 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, ZMUM) ; Khaptagay (61.787ºN 129.795ºE), 29. VI.1974, Nartshuk (4 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Kutana (62.713ºN 117.579ºE), 4.VII.1987, Zlobin (2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Kyachchi env. (60.348ºN 120.084ºE), 20.VII.2008, A. Ovchinnikov (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; left bank of the River Yana opposite of Verkhoyansk (67.55ºN 133.359ºE), 23.VII.1974, Nartshuk (1 ♂, ZISP) ; Lensk (60.727ºN 114.943ºE), 14.IX.1987, Gorodkov (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Mikhaylovka (61.214ºN 132.681ºE), 1.VIII.1987, V. Zlobin (1 ♂, ZISP) ; same place, 2 and 4.VIII.1984, 4.VIII.1986, 8.VIII.1987, Bagachanova, Averinskiy (6 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Neryuktyayinsk-1 (60.258ºN 119.673ºE), 11, 17 and 18.VII. 2008, A. Ovchinnikov (8 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Oktemtsy env. (61.672ºN 129.417ºE), 4–7.VII.2008, A. Ovchinnikov (6 ♀♀, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Olekminsk (60.370ºN 120.436ºE), 6.VIII.1974, Nartshuk (1 ♂, ZISP) ; same pace, 29–31.VIII.1988, Gorodkov (3 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, ZISP) ; River Biryuk, 4 km below the mouth of the River Melichan (ca. 60.434ºN 119.495ºE), 14.VII.2008, A. Ovchinnikov (2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; the mouth of the River Olekmy (60.366ºN 120.667ºE), 3.VIII.1974, Nartshuk (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; Tommot (58.963ºN 126.282ºE), 23.VIII.1969, Sychevskaya (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Tyungyulyu (62.201ºN 130.676ºE), 21.VIII.1989, Vinokurova (3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) ; same place, 30.VIII.2003, Dedyukina (2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Yakutsk (62.034ºN 129.618ºE), 21.VII.1987, Zlobin (4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ZISP) ; Zhigansk (66.766ºN 123.372ºE), 15.VIII.1973, Gorodkov (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Zabaikalsky Krai: Baley (51.580ºN 116.638ºE), 18.VII.1971, V. Richter (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Ingoda (51.851ºN 113.097ºE), 7.VII.1971, V. Richter (1 ♀, ZISP) ; Elizavetino (51.658ºN 113.605ºE), 26.VIII.1981, V. Zherikhin (1 ♂, ZMUM) . See also Ozerov & Krivosheina [2014: 219] .

DESCRIPTION. Male. Female. Body-length 7.1– 9.6 mm.

Head ( Fig. 4 ). Frontal vitta yellow or reddish-yellow, with delicate whitish reflection; fronto-orbital plate blackish, greenish grey dusted. Face, parafacial and gena yellow, with delicate golden reflection. Postcranium black in upper third or half and yellow in lower part. 3 orbital and 4–6 frontal setae present. Antenna reddish-yellow. Postpedicel approximately twice as long as wide. Arista pubescent or plumose, the longest hairs approximately equal or more than 1/2 width of postpedicel. Palpus yellow.

Thorax black in ground colour, greyish dusted, but usually postpronotal lobe yellowish. Acrostichals not differentiated from the other hairs on scutum or setulose in two irregular rows, but prescutellar pair stronger than the other acrostichals, dorsocentrals 2+3, intra-alars 1+2, supra-alars 1+2, postpronotals 2. Katepisternum posteriorly besides yellow hairs and setulae, as a rule also with several black setulae. Anepimeron bare. Scutellum black, greyish dusted, with a pair of strong basal scutellar and a pair of strong apical scutellar setae.

Legs yellow. Fore femur covered with hairs, but without conspicuous setae. Fore tibia with 2 dorsal, 0–1 posterior, 1 preapical dorsal, and 1 posterior apical setae. Mid femur with 1 preapical seta in male and usually with a row of anterodorsal setae in female, also with 1 preapical posterior and 1 preapical posterodorsal setae in both sexes. Mid tibia with 2 posterodorsal, 1 anterodorsal setae and a ring of apicals. Hind femur with 1–2 preapical anterodorsal setae in male and with a row of anterodorsal setae in female. Hind tibia with 3–4 anterodorsal, 2–3 posterodorsal,

1 preapical dorsal, 1 preapical anterodorsal, 1 apical anteroventral setae.

Wing tinged with brownish; crossveins r-m and dm-cu slighty darkened.

Abdomen from yellowish to dark brownish, delicate greyish dusted, covered with not long hairs, female tergites with black marginal setulae. Female tergite 7 shiny. Male sternite 4 approximately 2 times as long as wide (Fig. 39); sternite 5 with a pair of median processes ( Fig. 118). Epandrium, cercal plate and surstyli as in Figs 119, 120; surstylus broad in median part.

Photo of female ovipositor was given by Ovchinnikov [2009: 636, fig. 30].

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: throughout midland, north to northern subarctic tundra. — Europe, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China.

Figures

Figs 3–5. Scathophaga furcata (Say) (3), S. taeniopa (Rondani) (4) and S. nigripalpis (Becker) (5): 3 — female adult (Photograph by D.I. Gavryushin); 4, 5 — head. Рис. 3–5. Scathophaga furcata (Say) (3), S. taeniopa (Rondani) (4) and S. nigripalpis (Becker) (5): 1 — самка (Фото Д.И. ГаврюШина); 4, 5 — голова.