Scathophaga vlastae ŠIFNER , 2000

Šifner, František, 2020, Scathophaga karmazini nov. sp., a new species from Austria, with a key to Scathophaga species from Central Europe (Diptera, Scathophagidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (1), pp. 731-757 : 738

Scathophaga vlastae ŠIFNER, 2000 ( Figs 61–63 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: SLOVAKIA: Zádielská dolina, valley, 21.ix.1962, 1♂ (holotype), Šifner leg. (FSPC).

D i a g n o s i s. Male. The abdominal sternite 5 with an incision medio-caudally, otherwise more or less rectangular and with long hairs latero-caudally ( Fig. 61 ), surstyli short, cerci wide basally and caudally with long hairs ( Fig. 62 ), pregonite very narrowed apically, with three setae dorsally ( Fig. 63 ).

Female. Unknown.

C o m m e n t s. This species was discovered in Eastern Slovakia as a single male.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Known only in Slovakia ( ŠIFNER 2000, 2018).

Figures

Figs 61-63. Scathophaga vlastae ŠIFNER, 2000. (61) male abdominal sternites 5 to 4; (62) cerci and surstyli (caudal view); (63) right pregonite. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (Fig. 61, 62); 0.1 mm (Fig. 63).