Wohlfahrtia atra

Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 4208 (4), pp. 301-324 : 312

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Wohlfahrtia atra Aldrich, 1926: 10 . Type locality: China, Sichuan, Yellow Dragon Gorge , near Songpan. Syntypes, 2 males, in USNM . References: Rohdendorf (1956: 204, key; 209, redescription of male, biology and faunistics); Fan (1965: 293, key, fig. 1161: male terminalia, lateral view); Verves (1985: 303, key; 307–308, description of male, fig. 277: male terminalia); Verves (1986: 119, catalog); Fan (1992: 618, fig. 1255a: male head, lateral view, m, p: male terminalia, d: wing, dorsal view; 620, key); Shanghai Institute of Entomology Academia Sinica (1992: 87, checklist); Zhang & Chao (1993: 1174, catalog; 1175, fig. 4a: male head, lateral view, b: wing, dorsal view, c–d: male terminalia); Huhebateer et al. (1993a: 62– 63, records, descriptions of male and female; 64, discussion, fig. 3: male terminalia); Fan & Pape (1996: 245, checklist); Pape (1996: 169, catalog); Xue & Chao (1998: 1565, key and catalog; 1566, fig. 3133A1: male head, lateral view, D: wing, dorsal view, L1: male terminalia, lateral view, Np: male cerci, posterior view); Feng (2014: 109, faunistics).

Sinotibetomyia curvifemura Xue & Fei , 2011: 1. Type locality: China, Xizang, Gongbo’gyamda. Holotype, male, in IESNU. References: Xue & Fei (2011: 1–2, description of male, fig. 1a: phallus, lateral view, b: phallus, anterior view, c: male pregonite and postgonite, lateral view, d: male terminalia, posterior view, e: male terminalia, lateral view, f: male sternites 4 and 5, ventral view, g: male hind femur and tibia, anterior view).

Chinese specimens examined. CHINA: Sichuan: 1 male, Dêgê, Maniganggo , alt. 3900 m, 8.VII.1983, X.Z. Zhang ( ZMCAS).

Distribution. CHINA: Qinghai (Nangqên, Yushu), Sichuan (Dêgê, Hongyuan, Songpan), Xizang (Gongbo’gyamda); Palaearctic Region.

Remarks. Wohlfahrtia atra Aldrich can be distinctively identified by the black thorax with faint silvery pollinosity and the entirely shiny black abdomen. The male terminalia are reminiscent of those of W. vigil , and considering the variation in abdominal color pattern shown by this species (e.g., Verves 1982, fig. 326), a taxonomic revision specifically focusing on these two species is recommended. We have compared the descriptions provided by Aldrich (1926) and Xue & Fei (2011) of Wohlfahrtia atra and Sinotibetomyia curvifemura, respectively, and found them to be a sufficiently good match to consider these two nominal taxa as conspecific. Therefore, we propose Wohlfahrtia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 as a senior synonym of Sinotibetomyia Xue, 2011, syn. nov., and Wohlfahrtia atra Aldrich, 1926 as a senior synonym of Sinotibetomyia curvifemura Xue & Fei, 2011, syn. nov.