Megaphthalma pallida

• Main Author: Iwasa, Mitsuhiro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Scathophagidae; Megaphthalma; Megaphthalma pallida; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5047225; https://zenodo.org/record/5047225

Megaphthalma pallida (Fallén, 1819) [Japanese name: Seobi-kiiro-funbae] (Figs 28–29) Cordylura pallida Fallén, 1819: 8. Type-locality: “Westrogothis… Scania ” [Sweden]. Material examined. Hokkaido, 2 ♀, Iwanai Riv., Obihiro, Tokachi, 19. ix. 1995, leg. M. Iwasa. Diagnosis. This species is recognized by the following characteristics: frons, face, parafacial, and gena yellow; prescutum and scutum dark brown; postpronotum and thoracic pleura yellow; scutellum yellow with a pair of apical setae (Fig. 28); legs wholly yellow; abdominal tergites wholly yellow with narrow black line on each posterior margin (Fig. 29). Body length (♀). 5.5–6.0 mm. Distribution. Europe, Japan (Hokkaido), Russia (the European part, Siberia, the Far East) (Bagachanova et al ., 2016), North America. New to Japan. Remarks. Available specimens of this species are females, but as a result of my examination of specimens of M. pallida preserved in the Museum National d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), the characteristics agreed with those of female M. pallida . : 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 541-542, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4921413 : {"references": ["Fallen, C. F. (1819) Scatomyzidae Sveciae. Berlingianis, Lundae [Lund], 10 pp.", "Bagachanova, A. K., Ovchinnikov, A. N. & Ozerov, A. L. (2016) On the fauna of Scathophagidae (Diptera) of Yakutia. Entomological Review, 96, 775 - 785. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873816060087"]}