Nemotelus pantherinus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Mason, Franco, Rozkošný, Rudolf & Hauser, Martin, 2009, A review of the soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) of Sardinia *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 507-530 : 521

Nemotelus pantherinus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Published records. Sardinia ( Rozkošný 2004). Oristano prov.: Flumentongiu ( Troiano & Toscano 1997).

Remarks. Another highly variable species with regard to the length and colour of the facial projection and the extent of the black abdominal pattern in males. The distal black bands on the male abdomen can be largely reduced even within one population ( Rozkošný 1977).

Distribution. A species occurring in Europe from southern Scandinavia to southern regions including all larger Mediterranean islands; also found in Morocco, eastwards through Turkey and the Near East to Central Asia and Russian Siberia ( Rozkošný 2004).