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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812100
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scientific name	Empis kamtchatica
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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 .