Empis kamtchatica, Frey, 1935: 5

Shamshev, Igor V., 2020, Notes on species of Empididae (Diptera) described by R. Frey from the Swedish Kamchatka Expedition 1920 - 1922, Zootaxa 4758 (3), pp. 532-548 : 533

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.3.6

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812100

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1104DE18-500A-FFF6-5CBC-FC69FEA35813

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scientific name

Empis kamtchatica
status

 

kamtchatica Frey, 1935: 5 View in CoL ( Empis ( Polyblepharis ))

Current name. A junior synonym of Empis (Polyblepharis) subciliata Loew, 1871 .

Type locality (by lectotype fixation): Russia, Kamchatka, “Bolscherjetsk” [=Ust-Bolscheretsk].

Notes on the type series. Frey described this species after the female sex only. He noted the following material: “ 2 ♀, Kamtchatka (Malaise). Ausserdem im Museum zu Helsingfors 1 ♀ von Kamtchatka: Bolscherjetsk (Wuoren- taus)” .

Type material examined. PARALECTOTYPES: Kamtschatka, Malaise; Spec. typ.; Empis kamtschatica [sic!] Frey [hand-written by Frey], Frey det. (1 ♀, NHRS) . Kamtschatka, Malaise (1 ♀, NHRS) .

Remarks. Chvála & Wagner (1989) synonymised E. kamtchatica with E. subciliata Loew. Later Chvála (1999: 205) commented on this synonymy. He noted a single female specimen of E. kamtchatica in MZH, and probably based on the Frey type label, assumed erroneously that this specimen was the holotype. I consider Chvála’s statement as a lectotype fixation (sensu O’Hara & Cerretti (2016). Although I could not examine the lectotype. I have studied two paralectotypes from NHRS and can confirm that they agree with Frey’s description and are identical with E. subciliata .

NHRS

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Genus

Empis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Genus

Empis

Loc

Empis kamtchatica

Shamshev, Igor V. 2020
2020
Loc

kamtchatica

Frey, R. 1935: 5
1935
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