Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) uncicurva Pandellé, 1896

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Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) uncicurva Pandellé, 1896

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Sarcophaga uncicurva Pandellé, 1896: 183 . Type locality: France, Var , Hyères.

Type material examined. Lectotype ♂: ♂ / S497 // Sarcophaga uncicurva / Pandellé, 1896 / LEPTOTIPO [sic!] / Desig. Peris et al. / Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. ( MNHN) (cf. Pape 2004b).

Material from Sardinia. A11: 13.IX.2006, 0\1. S2: 13–27.VI.2006, 1\0. W03: 24.III.2004, 2\0. W04: 10–25.VII.2004, 2\0.

Additional material. Italy. Calabria: Cosenza prov., Villapiana , beach, 18.V.1998, PC MM, 4\0 . Latium: Latina prov., Capo Circeo , spiaggia sud [= south beach], 21.IX.1939, NC, 1\0 ( MZUR) . Sicily: Agrigento prov., Torre Salsa , dune [= dunes], 22.V.2004, PC DB GN DW, 4\3 .

Chorotype. W-Mediterranean.

Italian distribution. Calabria ( Böttcher 1913b); Latium ( Saccà & Rivosecchi 1953); Lombardy ( Böttcher 1913b, doubtful); Sardinia; Sicily ( Böttcher 1913b); Tuscany ( Verity 1918; Saccà & Rivosecchi 1953). Saccà and Rivosecchi (1953) recorded this species also from the Marches, but the specimen (in MZUR) belongs to an undescribed species closely related to S. thirionae . Böttcher’s (1913b:127) illustration of S. uncicurva does not correspond to Pandellé’s species (see above), so his record from Pavia (Lombardy) should be considered doubtful.

Biology. A parasitoid of Eobania vermiculata (Müller) , Theba pisana ( Gastropoda: Helicidae ) and Cernuella virgata ( Gastropoda: Hygromiidae ) (cf. Coupland & Barker 2004).

Remarks. New to Sardinia. Not yet recorded from Corsica ( Pape 2004a) .