Pherbellia czernyi Hendel, 1902

Vikhrev, Nikita E. & Murphy, William L., 2022, Notes on the taxonomy of species of Sciomyzini with a predominantly setulose anepisternum (Diptera, Sciomyzidae), Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2), pp. 281-298 : 283-284

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-281-298
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12816632
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scientific name	Pherbellia czernyi Hendel, 1902
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Specimen examined:

SERBIA: Crni Vrh env., 43.407 ° N 22.587 ° E, 800 m, N. Vikhrev, 1– 7.07.2015, 1♂ ( ZMUM). Remarks. Described from the Austrian state of Upper Austria (Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall, 48.0 ° N 14.2 ° E), the type material is in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. We initially had doubts about the validity of Ph. czernyi as a species separate from Ph. pilosa , but our Serbian specimen differs from all specimens of Ph. pilosa that we examined (listed below) by its much longer aristal hairs, which are longer than the width of the arista at its base; this character was noted in Hendel’s (1902) original description of Ph. czernyi . Rozkošný (1991) offered as additional diagnostic characters the chaetotaxy of the fore coxa, the contrasting white tar1-1, and the shape of the surstyli. We examined a large series of Ph. pilosa Hendel, 1902 and found that the chaetotaxy of the fore coxa and the colour of tar1- 1 may be the same as offered diagnostic for Ph. czernyi . We did not examine genitalia of Ph. czernyi .

Examination of more European specimens is required to reach a conclusion regarding the status of this taxon as a species.

Distribution. Known only from W Europe.