Hydrellia tarsata Haliday, 1839

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 tarsata Haliday, 1839

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: http://id.luomus.fi/GV.16707 ; recordedBy: Tiensuu, Lauri; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; behavior: on Stratiotes; preparations: gen. prep. on pin; Taxon: scientificName: Hydrelliatarsata Haliday, 1839; order: Diptera; family: Ephydridae; genus: Hydrellia; specificEpithet: tarsata; scientificNameAuthorship: Haliday, 1839; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: V; municipality: Naantali; decimalLatitude: 60.13; decimalLongitude: 22.02; geodeticDatum: wgs84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 10000; georeferencedBy: Kahanpää, Jere; Identification: identifiedBy: Kahanpää, Jere; dateIdentified: 2013-9-26; Event: year: 1936; month: 7; day: 7; 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). Western and Central Europe, also recorded from Bulgaria ( Zatwarnicki 2013).

Biology

The Finnish specimen was caught on water soldiers ( Stratiotes ), which is a host plant of H. tarsata ( Przhiboro 2004).

Notes

Three most likely conspecific females were caught together with the male.