Schistostoma albopilosum (Becker, 1910), comb. n.

Fig. 1

Microphorus albopilosus: Becker 1910: 644 . Type locality: Corsica (Chvála 1986: 444, figs 9, 28–33 ( Microphor)).

Description:

Fully re-described by Chvála (1986: 444). The description of the terminalia of both sexes is updated as follows:

Male terminalia (Figs 1A–C). Left epandrial lamella quadrate with short knob-like process posterior to surstylus; right lamella subrectangular. Left surstylus slender, finger-like, bearing some setulae, with hooked tip and expansion near mid-length; right surstylus broadly expanded and rounded with short pointed knob-like process. Hypandrium fused basally to each epandrial lamella; prolonged from broad base, gradually tapered to broad rounded apex, bearing pair of apical setae, less than one-third length of hypandrium; apex one-third of basal width of hypandrium. Phallus sickle-shaped with slender digitiform apex. Left postgonite digitiform, folded medially beyond epandrial lobe; apex rounded, right postgonite long, flat, closely appressed to inner face of epandrial lamella, tapered to point. Cercus short, bilobed, bearing several long setae.

Female terminalia (Fig. 1D). Tergite 10 divided medially, bearing 2 pairs of stout setae (acanthophorites); outer pair of setae more slender and pointed, inner setae peg-like with rounded apex. Cercus shorter than width of tergite 10, rounded apically, bearing several slender subapical setae.

Material examined: TURKEY: Antalya Prov.: 15ơ 2^Phaselis, 10 km S Kemer, 0 m, 27.iv.2000, B. Merz & Senay leg.; 9ơ 12^Side (= Selimye), 2.v.2000, 0 m, B. Merz & Senay (ZFMK) .

Distribution and seasonal occurrence: This species is known from Spain, Corsica, Sicily, Greece and Turkey, from April to June.

Remarks: This species has been collected on a sandy boggy shoreline (in the same place as Epithalassius Mik, Dolichopodidae s.str.) at the end of June (Corsica). The material examined in this study from Turkey represents a new country record. These specimens were collected on sand dunes covered partly with vegetation, some 100 m behind the beach (Merz, pers. comm. 2006).

Chvála (1986) indicated that the syntypic series of this species is deposited in Becker’s Collection in Berlin, but a lectotype has not been designed .