Hydrellia fulviceps (Stenhammar, 1844)

Kahanpaeae, Jere & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2015, Notes on Shore Flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) from Finland and north-western Russia, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4701-4701 : 4701

Hydrellia fulviceps (Stenhammar, 1844)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: http://id.luomus.fi/HT.808 ; recordNumber: 644; recordedBy: Palmén, Johan Axel; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: gen. prep. on pin; Taxon: scientificName: Hydrelliafulvice ps (Stenhammar, 1844); order: Diptera; family: Ephydridae; genus: Hydrellia; specificEpithet: fulviceps; scientificNameAuthorship: (Stenhammar, 1844); Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: A; locality: Aland ; verbatimLocality: Aland; decimalLatitude: 60.2; decimalLongitude: 20.0; geodeticDatum: wgs84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50000; georeferencedBy: Kahanpää, Jere; Identification: identifiedBy: Kahanpää, Jere; dateIdentified: 2013-9-26; Record Level: institutionCode: MZH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Diagnosis

Best identified by structures of the male genitalia as illustrated by Collin (1966).

Distribution

First recorded from Finland by Zatwarnicki and Kahanpää (2014). Widespread in Europe, it is recorded also from the Russian Far East ( Zatwarnicki 2013).

Ecology

No reliable records of the host plant of this species could be found.

Notes

Previously misidentified as Hydrellia chrysostoma (Meigen, 1830) (sensu Becker 1896) in Finland ( Hackman 1980).