Corindia viridis (Parent, 1932)

Kejval, Zbyněk & Pollet, Marc, 2024, Long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the Czech Republic- 2. Corindia and Thrypticus, Zootaxa 5432 (3), pp. 411-424 : 414

Corindia viridis (Parent, 1932)

Material examined. Bohemia: Lom (5448), 50°34′57″N 13°41′50″E, 260 m, near small pond, MT, 25.vi.– 23.vii.1998, M. Barták lgt., 1 ♂ ( NMPC) . Bílina , ca 3.5 km E (5449), 50°32′56″N 13°50′27″E, ca 400 m, mine dump, wetland, MT, 16.vi.–14.vii.2002, M. Barták lgt., J. Olejníček det. (as Thrypticus viridis ), 1 ♂ ( NMPC) .

Distribution. France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Turkey ( Negrobov & Naglis 2020), Czech Republic ( Olejníček et al. 2005, present paper) and Great Britain ( Drake et al. 2023).

Status in CZ. Previously recorded only from Podyjí in southern Moravia ( Olejníček et al. 2005, as Thrypticus viridis ) and there is a male specimen (Podyjí NP, 48°53′09″N 15°50′29″E, 1–28.vi.2002, M. Barták & Š. Kubík lgt.) deposited in NMPC (det. et coll. Olejníček, Z. Kejval confirmed). The first records from Bohemia are given herein.

Ecology. Essentially unknown. The British records come from wetlands, near coastal soft-rock cliffs and from flooded disused gravel pits ( Drake et al. 2023).

Remarks. This species was originally described in the genus Thrypticus . It was redescribed by Negrobov & Naglis (2020) and recently placed in Corindia by Drake et al. (2023), based mainly on the morphology of the female ovipositor, which is almost rounded in profile and bearing six short stout spines (in contrast to the blade-like shaped oviscapt typical for Thrypticus species).

Females of Corindia species lack the blade-like ovipositor which suggests another natural history trait than in Thrypticus . However, reliable observations are not yet known and the larvae of this genus are unknown. For further details, see Drake et al. (2023).