Cordilura proboscidea ( Zetterstedt, 1838 )

Ozerov, A. L. & Krivosheina, M. G., 2020, A review of the genus Cordilura Fallén, 1810 (Diptera: Scathophagidae) of Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 29 (4), pp. 439-480 : 465

Cordilura proboscidea ( Zetterstedt, 1838)

Figs 16, 87–89.

proboscidea Zetterstedt, 1838: 728 ( Cordylura ). Type-locality: “Tromsoe ... Nordlandiae ... Wittangi Lapponiae Tornensis” ( Norway, Sweden).

REMARK. Noted by Gorodkov [1970: 446, 1986: 15] for north of European part of Russia (Kola Peninsula, Polar Ural) and for north of Siberia, but without indicating specific locality.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Komi: Sivaya Maska station (66.675ºN 62.569ºE), 5 km NW, 14.VII.1961, Gorodkov (2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, ZISP); Krasnoyarsk Krai: Igarka (67.457ºN 86.598ºE), River Yenisei , 1–3.VII.1967, Gorodkov (3 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, ZISP); Tyumen’ Oblast: Obdorsk [now = Salekhard] (66.53ºN 66.6135ºE) , 25. VI .1914 , Shukhov (1 ♂, ZISP); Tobol’sk (58.206ºN 68.264ºE), 22. V .1925 , Fridolin (2 ♂♂, ZISP); Yakutia: Kyusyur (70.687ºN 127.366ºE), 14.VII.1957, Gorodkov (1 ♂, 1 ♀, ZISP) .

DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION. Male. Female. Body-length 6.8–7.8 mm. Head. Frontal vitta yellow; fronto-orbital plate black, greyish dusted. Face, parafacial and gena yellowish with whitish reflection. Postcranium black, greyish dusted. 3 orbital and 2–4 frontal setae present. Antenna blackish; postpedicel approximately 1.5–2 times as long as wide. Arista nearly bare, longest hairs not exceeding greatest diameter of arista. Palpus black. Thorax black, greyish dusted. Acrostichals setulose in two rows, dorsocentrals (4– 5)+3 (including scapular seta), intra-alars 1+2, supra-alars 1+2, 2 postpronotals. Scutellum with a pair of strong discal and a pair of strong apical setae. Legs greyish dusted. Femora of all legs black; tibiae of all legs from yellow to blackish; tarsi of all legs yellow. Wing tinged with light brownish; veins brownish. Vein R 1 bare on apical third of dorsal surface. Abdomen black, greyish dusted. Male sternite 4 rectangular, wid- er than long ( Fig. 16). Male sternite 5, epandrium and surstyli as in Figs 87–89.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Komi, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tyumen’ Oblast, Yakutia. — Europe, North America .