Empis kamtchatica Frey 1935

• Main Author: Shamshev, Igor V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Empididae; Empis; Empis kamtchatica; Kamchatka; Kamtschatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812099; https://zenodo.org/record/3812099

kamtchatica Frey, 1935: 5 ( Empis ( Polyblepharis )) Current name. A junior synonym of Empis ( Polyblepharis ) subciliata Loew, 1871. Type locality (by lectotype fixation): Russia, Kamchatka, “Bolscherjetsk” [=Ust-Bolscheretsk]. Notes on the type series. Frey described this species after the female sex only. He noted the following material: “ 2 ♀, Kamtchatka (Malaise). Ausserdem im Museum zu Helsingfors 1 ♀ von Kamtchatka: Bolscherjetsk (Wuoren- taus)”. Type material examined. PARALECTOTYPES: Kamtschatka, Malaise; Spec. typ.; Empis kamtschatica [sic!] Frey [hand-written by Frey], Frey det. (1 ♀, NHRS). Kamtschatka, Malaise (1 ♀, NHRS). Remarks. Chvála & Wagner (1989) synonymised E . kamtchatica with E . subciliata Loew. Later Chvála (1999: 205) commented on this synonymy. He noted a single female specimen of E . kamtchatica in MZH, and probably based on the Frey type label, assumed erroneously that this specimen was the holotype. I consider Chvála’s statement as a lectotype fixation ( sensu O’Hara & Cerretti (2016). Although I could not examine the lectotype. I have studied two paralectotypes from NHRS and can confirm that they agree with Frey’s description and are identical with E . subciliata . : Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., 2020, Notes on species of Empididae (Diptera) described by R. Frey from the Swedish Kamchatka Expedition 1920 - 1922, pp. 532-548 in Zootaxa 4758 (3) on page 533, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3734737 : {"references": ["Frey, R. (1935) Entomologische Ergebnisse der schwedischen Kamtschatka-Expedition 1920 - 1922. 36. Diptera Brachycera. 5. Empididae, Micropezidae, Lauxaniidae, Chloropidae. Arkiv for Zoologi, 28 A (10), 1 - 8.", "Loew, H. (1871) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. Von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Neunter Theil oder dritter Supplementband. Beschreibung europaischer Dipteren. Zweiter Band. H. W. Schmidt, Halle, 319 pp.", "Chvala, M. & Wagner, R. (1989) Empididae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 6. Therevidae-Empididae. Elsevier Science Publishing, Amsterdam, pp. 228 - 336.", "Chvala, M. (1999) Revision of Palearctic species of the Empis subgenus Polyblepharis (Diptera, Empididae), with descriptions of fourteen new species. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 42 (1998), 113 - 225.", "O'Hara, J. E. & Cerretti, P. (2016) Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera. ZooKeys, 575, 1 - 344. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 575.6072"]}