Coenosia flavissima Hennig, 1961

Sorokina, Vera S., 2023, A key to the Russian species of the genus Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae), with the description of one new species and new synonymies, Zootaxa 5389 (1), pp. 79-107 : 83-85

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scientific name	Coenosia flavissima Hennig, 1961
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Comments. A mysterious species. It was described by Hennig on the basis of only two males from Orenburg [51°46’N 55°06’E] in the European part of Russia ( Hennig 1961b: 554), and no specimens (both males and females) are known apart from the holotype and the paratype. The Orenburg region borders on Kazakhstan, and it can be assumed that this is a Central Asian species that is widely distributed south of Orenburg GoogleMaps .

The holotype and the paratype are deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and they were studied by Pont & Werner (2006) and by Couri & Pont (2020). Coenosia flavissima resembles Coenosia ciliata Hennig, 1961 in the absence of basal scutellar setae but it is a very distinct species, easily recognized by its pale general colour and by the male terminalia (Fig. 478, plate XXIV in Hennig, 1961a).

Distribution. Palaearctic: Russia (SE).

References

Couri, M. S. & Pont, A. C. (2020) Type specimens of Coenosiini (Diptera, Muscidae) deposited in the Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany). Zootaxa, 4781 (1), 1 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4781.1.1

Hennig, W. (1961 b) Muscidae. [Part.] In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 63 b, Lieferung 217. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 529 - 576.

Hennig, W. (1961 a) Muscidae. [Part.] In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 63 b, Lieferung 215. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 481 - 528.

Lobanov, A. M. (1988) A species new to science and two little-known species of true flies (Diptera, Muscidae). In: Tobias, V. I. (Ed.), Sistematika nasekomyh i kleshchej. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva [La Systematique des Insectes et Acarines. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Unionis Soveticae], 70, 196 - 201. [In Russian.]

Pont, A. C. & Werner, D. (2006) The types of Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) in the Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologische Reihe, 82 (1), 3 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 200600001