Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) caudata

• Main Authors: Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia caudata; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Tromso; Bear Island; Sinclair; Prestrud; Kardis; Lapponia; Norwegian Polar Institute; Russian Arctic islands; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477210; https://zenodo.org/record/4477210

Rhamphomyia ( Pararhamphomyia ) caudata (Zetterstedt) Rhamphomyza caudata Zetterstedt, 1838: 565. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Kardis, Sweden. Other references: Frey, 1955a: 472 (revision, lectotype designation); Barták & Danielson, 2007: 107 (type material examination). Rhamphomyza aethiops Zetterstedt, 1838: 568. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Lapponia Umensi (probably Lycksele) (Sweden). Other references: Barták & Danielson, 2007: 108 (lectotype designation). Remarks. Rhamphomyia caudata has a somewhat complicated taxonomic history. As a consequence, some distributional records of this species may be misleading. Rhamphomyia caudata was identified as the single species of Empididae from Spitsbergen (Boheman 1866; Holmgren 1869; Collin 1923) and was reflected in Empididae Catalogues and faunal checklists ( e.g ., Hackman 1968; Chvála & Wagner 1989: 299; Coulson & Refseth 2004: 104; Yang et al . 2007: 169). We have examined the specimens of R . caudata noted by Holmgren (housed in NHRS) and found that, actually, they belong to R . longestylata Frey (see below). It should be noted that Collin was somewhat confused about the synonymy of R . caudata . He believed that R . longestylata Frey was conspecific with R . caudata (Zetterstedt) (see Collin, 1961: 378). However, they are distinctly two different species (see Frey 1955a: 472; Barták & Danielson 2008: 107). A note in Collin’s paper on flies collected from Spitsbergen (Collin 1923: 116) indicates clearly that he in fact had in front of him a male of R . longestylata rather than R . caudata . Our study does not confirm the presence of R . caudata on the Arctic islands. : Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4848 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987 : {"references": ["Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Sectio tertia. Diptera. Dipterologia Scandinaviae amicis et popularibus carissimus. In: Insecta Lapponica. L. Voss, Lipsiae (Leipzig), pp. 477 - 868.", "Frey, R. (1955 a) 28. Empididae. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 4 (4), 433 - 480, taf. 37 - 42 (Lfg. 181).", "Bartak, M. & Danielson, R. (2007) Revision of Rhamphomyia species (Diptera: Empididae) described by J. W. Zetterstedt. Acta Zoologica Universitatis Comenianae, 47 (2), 105 - 114. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 80397", "Boheman, C. H. (1866) Spetsbergens Insekt-fauna. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 22 (1865), 563 - 577.", "Holmgren, A. E. (1869) Bidrag till kannedomen om Beeren Eilands och Spetsbergens insektfauna. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps- Akademiens Handlingar, 8 (5), 1 - 55.", "Collin, J. E., (1923) Diptera (Orthorrhapha Brachycera and Cyclorrhapha) from Spitsbergen and Bear Island. Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1921. - No. 22. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 11 (61), 116 - 123. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932308632830", "Hackman, W. (1968) Notes on the arthropod fauna of Spitsbergen, II: 11. Diptera: Empididae, Acalyptratae families and Scatophagidae. Annales Entomologici Fennici, 34, 93 - 98.", "Chvala, M. & Wagner, R. (1989) Empididae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 6. Therevidae - Empididae. Elsevier Science Publishing, Amsterdam, pp. 228 - 336.", "Coulson, S. J. & Refseth, D. (2004) The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate fauna of Svalbard. In: Prestrud, P., Strom, H. & Goldman, H. V. (Eds.), A catalog of the terrestrial and marine animals of Svalbard. Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso, pp. 57 - 122.", "Yang, D., Zhang, K., Yao, G. & Zhang, J. (2007) World Catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera). China Agricultural University Press, Beijing, 599 pp.", "Collin, J. E. (1961) Empididae. In: British flies. Vol. 6. University Press, Cambridge, 782 pp."]}