Empis kamtchatica Frey 1935
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 o...
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| Summary: | 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 |
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