Eristalinus sepulchralis

• Main Authors: El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Gilbert, Francis
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae; Eristalinus; Eristalinus sepulchralis; Pacific; Fennoscandia; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5929885; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929885

Eristalinus sepulchralis (Linnaeus, 1758) [ERISTALINAE: ERISTALINI] Musca sepulchralis Linnaeus, 1758: 596. Type locality: Sweden. Musca melanius Harris, 1776: 53. Type locality: England. Syrphus tristis Fabricius, 1794: 303. Type locality: Germany (Kiel). Eristalis impunctata Strobl, 1910: 106. Type locality: Austria (Radkersburg). Eristalinus riki Violovitsh, 1957: 752. Type locality: Russia (Far East: Sakhalin). Eristalis miki Mutin & Barkalov, 1999: 451. Misspelling of riki Violovitsh. World distribution: OR: India, Pakistan. PA: Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Europe (Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean; from Ireland through most of Europe into Turkey and European parts of Russia; through Siberia to the Pacific coast), Israel, Japan, Jordan, Mongolia, Morocco, Syria. Egyptian localities: Unknown. Activity period in Egypt: Unknown. Remarks: This species was listed as recorded from Egypt by Steyskal & El-Bialy (1967) and Peck (1988), but no specimens or published records have been found. Probably the record is a misidentification. Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), pp. 201-248 in Zootaxa 4577 (2) on page 226, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2629643