Wohlfahrtia vigil

Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 4208 (4), pp. 301-324 : 316-319

vigil

Sarcophaga vigil Walker, 1849: 831 . Type locality: Canada, Nova Scotia.

Sarcophila meigenii Schiner, 1862: 567 . Type locality: Austria, nr Graz.

Wohlfahrtia meigeni: Rohdendorf (1956: 205, key; 207–209, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, figs 3: male cercus and surstylus, lateral view, 4: phallus and gonites, lateral view) ; Fan (1965: 293, figs 1162–1163: male terminalia, lateral view; 294, fig. 1172: male abdomen, dorsal view; 295, key); Verves (1985: 303, key; 325–328, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, fig. 309: abdominal pattern, male cercus, surstylus, lateral view, phallus and gonites, lateral view, female terminalia, posterior view); Verves (1986: 121, catalog); Xiang et al. (1989: 97, catalog, records); Wang et al. (1992: 173, checklist); Fan (1992: 619, fig. 1259c: male abdomen, dorsal view; 622, key); Wu (1994: 44, checklist); Ma et al. (1998: 35, checklist); Xue & Chao (1998: 1562, fig. 3140Cd: male abdomen, dorsal view; 1565, key; 1567, catalog); Nonnaizab (1999: 312, catalog); Tian et al. (1999: 54, checklist); Wang et al. (2000: 88, checklist); Wang et al. (2001: 266, checklist); Wang et al. (2002: 13, checklist); Yue (2016: 75, description; 149, fig. 72A: male body, dorsal view, B: male body, lateral view, C: male head, anterior view, D: male terminalia, lateral view).

Wohlfahrtia vigil: Verves (1985: 303, key; 337–339, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, figs 327: abdominal pattern, male cercus and surstylus, lateral view, phallus and gonites, lateral view, 328: female terminalia, posterior view) ; Fan & Pape (1996: 245, checklist); Pape (1996: 172, catalog).

Chinese specimens examined. None.

Distribution. CHINA: Heilongjiang (Da Hinggan Ling), Liaoning (Dandong), Neimenggu (Alxa, Eastern Urad, Xilin Gol), Ningxia (Jingyuan), Shandong (Jinan), Xinjiang (Aerjin Shan, Ruoqiang); Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

Remarks. The male terminalia of W. vigil are reminiscent of those of W. atra . Considering the variation in the abdominal color pattern of W. vigil , from distinct spots to almost completely unicolorous black (e.g., Verves 1982, fig. 326), a taxonomic revision specifically focusing on these two species is required.