Amaurosoma armillatum ( Zetterstedt, 1846 )

Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1), pp. 111-196 : 151

Amaurosoma armillatum ( Zetterstedt, 1846)

Cordylura armillata Zetterstedt, 1846: 2069 . SYNTYPES: J ♀, Sweden, ‘ Scania ad Lund et Abusa [= Skåne at Lund and Abusa]’; Denmark, ‘ Hafnia Daniae [= Copenhagen]’ (probably MZLU) .

Amaurosoma mensuratum Becker, 1894: 119 , syn. nov. SYNTYPES: ‘ Schlesien, von Wölfelsfall bei Glatz [= Silesia, Bystrzyca Kłodska, environs of Wilkanów, valley of brook Wilszka]’. ‘ Lectotype’: J, 1 st label ‘ Wölfelsfall , 17.v. [without year], [No] 26560’; 2 nd red label ‘ Lectotype Amaurosoma mensuratum , designated by J. R. Vockeroth’ ; 3 rd ‘ Nanna armillata Zett. , det. J. R. Vockeroth 1962’; 4 th label ‘Zool. Mus. Berlin’; designated by J. R. Vockeroth (designation not published); I attached an additional label to the latter specimen: ’ Amaurosoma armillatum (Zett.) , revid. F. Šifner 2007’ (ZMHB).

Note. All characters of A. mensuratum are within the limits of variability of A. armillatum and I therefore suggest A. mensuratum as a junior synonym of A. armillatum .

Distribution. Austria ( FRANZ 1989: 116); Czech Republic ( ŠIFNER 2003a: 54); Denmark

( ZETTERSTEDT 1846: 2069, SCHINER 1864a: 13); Estonia ( ELBERG 1965: 349); Finland (HACK-

MAN 1980: 130); Germany ( PÜCHEL 1999: 186); Great Britain ( CHANDLER 1998: 163); Latvia

( SÉGUY 1934: 679); Lithuania ( PAKALNIŠKIS et al. 2000: 45); Norway ( NELSON & GREVE

2002: 46); Poland (DRABER- MONKO 1991: 231); Russia – European Russia ( GORODKOV

1970: 451); Slovakia ( ŠIFNER 2003a: 54); Sweden ( HEDSTRÖM 1991: 143).