Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) bezziana Böttcher, 1913

Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 2778, pp. 1-57 : 21

Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) bezziana Böttcher, 1913 , subg. comb. nov.

Sarcophaga bezziana Böttcher, 1913b: 242 .

Shoachaeta cornogranda Lehrer, 2009: 8, syn. nov.

Type material examined. Sarcophaga bezziana : Lectotype 3 (designated by Whitmore et al. 2009) and two male paralectotypes ( SMF); see Whitmore et al. (2009) for label details.

Shoachaeta cornogranda: Holotype 3: [ Italy] ABRUZZI / Corno Grande / 19.9. 42 m 2200 // Sarcophaga / ( Heteronychia ) / bezziana / Böttcher, 1913 / D. Whitmore det. 2006 // [red label added by myself] HOLOTYPE 3 / Shoachaeta / cornogranda / A. Z. Lehrer 2009 ( MZUR).

Additional material examined. Italy, Abruzzi, L’Aquila prov., Anversa degli Abruzzi, Pizzo Marcello, Stazzo Rotolo, 29.VII.1997, P. Cerretti & A.M. Tenga leg., 1 3 (CNBFVR); Acquasanta [probably Marches, Ascoli Piceno prov.], 2.VIII.1897 ( USNM, as “ Sarcophaga haemorrhoa det. Böttcher”).

Remarks. Whitmore et al. (2009) moved Sarcophaga bezziana from subgenus Heteronychia to subgenus Discachaeta Enderlein due to its probable sister-species relationship with Sarcophaga amita Rondani (long considered a member of the latter subgenus by most authors) and pending a cladistic analysis of this group of species. However, recent analyses are showing that Discachaeta (with type species Sarcophaga cucullans Pandellé, 1896 ) cannot be maintained as a subgenus without making the remaining species of Heteronychia paraphyletic (Whitmore, unpublished); anticipating the formal synonymization of these two genus-group names, I am here accommodating the nominal taxa Sarcophaga bezziana and Shoachaeta cornogranda in subgenus Heteronychia . Likewise, I move Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) amita Rondani, 1860 into Heteronychia , subg. comb. nov., from its previous placement in Discachaeta (see Whitmore et al. 2009). Lehrer (1997: 78) designated S. (H.) amita as type-species of his genus Shoachaeta Lehrer, which now becomes a junior synonym of Heteronychia , syn. nov.