Spilogona platyfrons Sorokina 2018

• Main Authors: Sorokina, Vera S., Shaikevich, Elena V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Muscidae; Spilogona; Spilogona platyfrons; Arctic; Sorokina; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846075; https://zenodo.org/record/3846075

Spilogona platyfrons Sorokina, 2018 Figs 4C, F, I, 5C, F, I Type locality RUSSIA: Altai Mountains. Material examined Holotype RUSSIA: 1 ♁, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Shapshal’skiy mountain range, upper part of Shui River, ~ 50º33′ N, 89º50′ E, 2550–2900 m a.s.l., 25 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN). Paratypes RUSSIA: 34 ♁♁ 21 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Shapshal’skiy mountain range, upper part of Shui River, ~ 50º33′ N, 89º50′ E, 2550–2900 m a.s.l., 25 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (2 males and 2 females in ZMUM & ZISP, the rest in SZMN); 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, upper part of Naryn-Gol River, 49°49′ N, 89°32′ E, 2520 m a.s.l., 16–19 Jul. 2009, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, environs of Muzdy-Bulak lake, 49º17′ N, 87º39′ E, 2400–2900 m a.s.l., 27 Jun., 1 Jul. 2005, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, 6–8 km NW of Maitobe Mountain, 49º34′ N, 87º43′ E, 2420–2550 m a.s.l., 6–10 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 4 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, environs of Kal’dzhin-Kul’-Bas lake, 49°19′ N, 87°26′ E, 2400–2600 m a.s.l., 18, 20–21 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 17 ♁♁ 3 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Kosh- Agach district, Ukok plateau, south slope of Yuzhno-Chuiskiy range, valley of Tara River, 49°39′ N, 88°13′ E, 2175–2200 m a.s.l., 1–4 Jul. 2006, 11 Jul. 2009, leg. V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, upper part of Zhumaly river, Rodonovyi spring, 49º16′ N, 88º30′ E, 2300 m a.s.l., 24 Jun. 2005, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Ongudai district, Terektinskiy range, upper part of Bolshoi Yaloman River, 2200–2300 m a.s.l., 3 Aug. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Kurayskiy range, 50º20′ N, 87º45′ E, 2500–2800 m a.s.l., 29–30 Jun. 2008, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN); 13 ♁♁ 20 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, environs of Dzhulukul’ lake, 50º28′ N, 89º46′ E, 2200 m a.s.l., 21–24 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 18 ♁♁ 3 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ust-Koksa district, 47 km W of Ust-Koksa, Krasnaya Mountain, 2000–2100 m a.s.l., 50°04′ N, 85°13′ E, 16 Jul. 2015, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 6 ♁♁ 4 ♀♀, Tyva Republic, Morgun-Taiginskii kozhuun, environs of Mugur-Aksy, ~ 50º22′ N, 90º25′ E, 2000–2100 m a.s.l., 22 Jul. 1993, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN). Distribution Palaearctic Region: southern Siberia. Remark Mountain species, but probably living in the arctic tundra too. : Published as part of Sorokina, Vera S. & Shaikevich, Elena V., 2018, The identification of the species of the ' Spilogona contractifrons species-group' and the ' Spilogona nitidicauda species-group' (Diptera, Muscidae) based on morphological and molecular analysis, pp. 1-26 in European Journal of Taxonomy 484 on page 20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.484, http://zenodo.org/record/3825664 : {"references": ["Sorokina V. S. 2018. Eleven new species of Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 (Diptera, Muscidae) from the Altai Mountains of Russia, with key to species. Zootaxa 4410 (2): 201 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4410.2.1"]}