Cleigastra tibiella

• Main Author: Iwasa, Mitsuhiro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Scathophagidae; Cleigastra; Cleigastra tibiella; Norway; Magadan; Nacka; Tornensis; Black Face; Kamchatka; Kamtschatka; Lapponia; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5047222; https://zenodo.org/record/5047222

Cleigastra tibiella (Zetterstedt, 1838) [Japanese name: Togeashi-hizaguro-funbae] (Figs 15–20) Cordylura tibiella Zetterstedt, 1838: 731. Type-locality: “Juckasjervi Lapponiae Tornensis, ad Lycksele Lappon. Umensis, ut et ad Bjŏrkvik Nordlandiae… Dowre… Uplandia ad Nacka prope Stockhomiam… Smoland…” [Sweden, Norway]. Cordylura nigripes Zetterstedt, 1846: 2026. Type-locality: “Smolandia… Jemtlandia boreali ad diversorium Skalstugan… Lapponia Lulensi” [Sweden]. Amaurosoma nigrifrontata Becker, 1894: 120. Type-locality: “Sud-Tirol vom Luisier Pass” [now Passo di Lusia (Italy, Trentino)]. Amaurosoma mutans Becker, 1894: 120. Type-locality: Legnica (formerly Liegnitz), Poland. Amaurosoma kamtschatkense Hendel, 1930: 9. Type-locality: “Klutchi” [Russia, Kamchatka Kray] Material examined. Hokkaido , 2 ♂, Kushiro, 16. v. 1988, leg. M. Iwasa (OUAVM). Diagnosis. Cleigastra tibiella (Zetterstedt) can be recognized by the following characteristics: frons black; face, parafacial, and genae pale yellow with silvery microtrichose; postpedicel black with acute upper corner (Fig. 15); thorax and abdominal tergites grey dusted (Fig. 15); katepisternum with 3 setae (Fig. 16); fore femora blackish with 7-10 distinct av setae (Fig. 17); male sternite V bilobate posteriorly (Fig. 18); male surstyli filiform, apically rounded, arched close to each other at the tips (Figs 19, 20). Body length (♂). 4.7–4.8 mm. Distribution. Europe, Japan (Hokkaido), Russia (Kamchatka Kray, Kranoyarsk Kray, Leningrad Oblast and St.- Petersburg, Magadan Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Tumen’ Oblast) (Ozerov & Krivosheina, 2015). New to Japan. Remarks. This species is very similar to C. puberula (Becker) in the structure of male fore femora and surstyli, but can be easily distinguished from it by the blackish fore femora. : Published as part of Iwasa, Mitsuhiro, 2021, Three new species and six new records of Scathophagidae (Diptera) from Japan with a key to the Japanese genera, pp. 531-553 in Zootaxa 4981 (3) on pages 537-539, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4921413 : {"references": ["Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Dipterologis Scandinaviae, Sectio tertia. Diptera. In: Insecta Lapponica. Leopold Voss, Lispiae, pp. 477 - 868. [1840]", "Zetterstedt, J. W. (1846) Diptera Scandinaviae Disposita et descripta. Tomus quintus. Ex officina lundbergiana, Lundae, pp. 1739 - 2162.", "Becker, T. (1894) Dipterologische Studien. I. Scatomyzidae. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 39, 77 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18940390108", "Hendel, F. (1930) 28. Diptera Brachycera 2. Fam. Cordyluridae und Dryomyzidae. In: Entomologische Ergebnisse der schwedischen Kamtschatka - Expedition 1920 - 1955. Arkiv for Zoologie, 21 (A), 1 - 12.", "Ozerov, A. L. & Krivosheina, M. G. (2015) A review of the genera Cleigastra Macquart, Gonarcticus Becker, Gonatherus Rondani, Hexamitocera Becker, Nanna Strobl, Orthachaeta Becker and Spathephilus Becker (Diptera, Scathophagidae) of Russia. Zootaxa, 4012 (2), 201 - 258. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4012.2.1"]}