Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) kataphygionis (Povolný, 1999)

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Heteronychia kataphygionis Povolný, 1999: 8 .

Type material examined. Heteronychia kataphygionis: Holotype 3: GREECE / Olymp Mountain / Kataphygion, 1800 n a. s. l. / August 26 1996 // [red label] H. kataphygionis / Holotypus / det. Povolný [/] Spatulapica / kataphygionis / [illegible scribble] 26.8.93 [sic!] // TRANSCRIPTIO / Heteronychia / kataphygionis sp. n. / det. Povolný 1999 // Invent. č. / 5592 /Ent. / Mor. muzeum, Brno (MMBC) [holotype in average condition, with two legs inadvertently broken off (by myself) and glued to locality label; terminalia missing, not recovered in MMBC (I. Malenovský, pers. comm. 2007)]. Paratypes: 36 3 (MMBC; 35 = S. (H.) kataphygionis, 1 = S. (H.) lederbergi) [all without labels except one: Olympos, Kataphyg., 26.8.93, “ Heteronychia kataphygionis ”, “ paratype ”]. [The holotype and paratypes were found in Povolný’s collection under the following heading labels (pinned to the floor of the box, written with a typewriter): “ Heteronychia kataphygionis / Holotype + Paratypes /” and “Olympos 26.8.93 [sic!]”.]

Additional material examined: France: Doubs: Beaumes-les-Dames, 21.VII.1992, R. Richet leg., 1 3 (CNBFVR); Maîche, VII.2003, R. Richet leg., 1 3 (CNBFVR) (see also Richet et al. in press). Italy: Venetia, Belluno prov. Vincheto di Celarda, 2 3 (CNBFVR) (see Whitmore et al. 2008a). Poland (new country record): Stettin, Finkenwalde, 23.VII.1914, G. Schroeder leg., 1 3 (MZPW, as “ Heteronychia haemorrhoa det. Rohdendorf”).

Remarks. Sarcophaga kataphygionis is a valid species of Heteronychia with a narrow frons, setulae on wing vein R1, a pair of strong median marginal setae on abdominal tergite 3, and red epandrium; the cercus and distiphallus are similar to those of S. (H.) bulgarica, but the median part of juxta is distinctly longer (Fig. 59). Specimens of difficult placement, seemingly intermediate between Sarcophaga (H.) kataphygionis and S. (H.) haemorrhoides Böttcher, 1913, were found in YVC (Russia: Altay; Ukraine: Chernigiv, Dnipropetrivs’k and Volyn’ regions), ZMUC (Russia: Serpuchov, Moscow reg.) and USNM (Russia: Yashchera, Leningrad reg.) (Fig. 60).