Stratiomys longicornis ( Scopoli, 1763 )

Mason, Franco, Rozkošný, Rudolf & Hauser, Martin, 2009, A review of the soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) of Sardinia *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 507-530 : 525

Stratiomys longicornis ( Scopoli, 1763)

Published records. Sardinia ( Röder 1884; Bezzi 1892; Rozkošný 1982; Mason & Krivosheina 1995; Rozkošný 2004). Cagliari prov.: Assemini, Rio Flumini; Cagliari, Stagno di Molentargius, Sarroch ( Mason 2005). Carbonia-Iglesias prov.: Gonnesa ( Mason 2005). Nuoro prov.: Lula ( Troiano & Toscano 1997; Mason 2005). Oristano prov.: Oristano ( Costa 1884). Sassari prov.: Asinara Island ( Costa 1883; Nuvoli et al. 2007); Chilivani ( Mason 2005).

Material examined. Olbia-Tempio prov.: Olbia, Le Vecchie Saline di [= The old saltworks of] Porto Palo , N 40°54’16.5” E 9°34’23.2”, 24.VI.2007, D. Birtele, F. Mason & F. Mazzocchi leg. 3 ♂, 2 ♀♀, sweep net, on Salicornia sp. ( FMV) . Oristano prov.: Arborea, Sant’Anna , 18.VI.2004, L. Fancello leg., 1 ♂ 1 ♀, ( FMV) ; Arborea, Stagno di s’Ena Arrubia ,, N 39°50’32.4” E 8°33’47.3”, 23.VI.2007, D. Birtele, F. Mason & F. Mazzocchi, 3 ♂ 1 ♀, on Salicornia sp. , sweep net ( FMV) .

Distribution. A widely distributed Palaearctic species, extending in Europe from southern Sweden (absent in Ireland, Norway and Finland) to the extreme southern coast of the continent; well known in North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt), and eastwards through Turkey, the Near East and Middle Asia to Mongolia, China and Korea ( Rozkošný 1982).