DIPTERA

Nartshuk, E. P., Yatsuk, A. A., Tomkovich, P. S. & Matyukhin, A. V., 2024, TAXONOMIC STATUS OF ICOSTA OMNISETOSA MAA, 1969, STAT. N. (DIPTERA: HIPPOBOSCIDAE) IS UPGRADED TO SPECIES RANK, Far Eastern Entomologist 508, pp. 27-32 : 27

( DIPTERA : HIPPOBOSCIDAE ) IS UPGRADED TO SPECIES RANK

E. P. Nartshuk 1), A. A. Yatsuk 2*), P. S. Tomkovich 3), A. V. Matyukhin 2)

1) Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia.

2) A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Av. 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia. *Corresponding author, E-mail: [e-mail]

3) Zoological Museum, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str. 2, Moscow, 125009, Russia .

Summary. A study of morphology and biology of the louse flies Icosta holoptera holoptera Lutz, 1915 and I. holoptera omnisetosa Maa, 1969 showed that they are two different species. Specimen of I. omnisetosa stat. n., a parasite of migrant pintail snipe Gallinago stenura (Bonaparte) , is recorded from Chukotka Autonomous Region ( Russia) for the first time.