Americina vittata ( Meigen, 1826 )

Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1), pp. 111-196 : 174

Americina vittata ( Meigen, 1826)

Cordylura vittata Meigen, 1826: 236 . HOLOTYPE: J, type locality not given; 1 st label ‘ Dflc’, 2 nd label ‘ Bhn. ’, 3 rd red label ‘ vittata MG. , coll. H.Loew’, 4 th red label ‘J, Type’ (ZMHB).

Cordylura unicolor Loew, 1864: 217 , syn. nov. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Spain, Andalusia, Staudinger leg. (depository unknown).

Note. All characters of C. unicolor are within the limits of variability of A. vittata and I therefore consider C. unicolor to be a junior synonym of A. vittata .

Cordylura inermis Loew, 1869: 178 . HOLOTYPE: ♀, USA, New Hampshire (depository unknown). Synonymized by VOCKEROTH (1965: 840).

Parallelomma nudicornis Cresson, 1918: 135 . HOLOTYPE: J, USA, California, Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, 22.iii.1908, E. T. Cresson jr. leg., No. 6181 (USNM). Synonymized by VOCKEROTH (1965: 840).

Parallelomma paridis Hering, 1923:200 . HOLOTYPE: J(?), Germany, ‘Jungfernheide [= part of Berlin]’ (ZMHB). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 290).

Chylizosoma paucheti Séguy, 1932: 153 . HOLOTYPE: ♀, France, ‘forêt de Herz [= forest at Herz], iv.’; labelled: ‘ Chylizosoma paucheti, E. Séguy det.’, red label ‘Type’ (MNHN). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 291).

Chylizosoma beckeri Séguy, 1932: 153 . HOLOTYPE: J, Estonia, ‘Dorpat [= Tartu], 30.iii.’; labelled: ‘ Cordylura vittata Meig. , det. Becker’, red label ‘Type’ (MNHN). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 290).

Note. The proposed synonymy of C. beckeri with Americina media ( ŠIFNER 2003a: 64) was an error.

Chylizosoma hostae Hering, 1955: 6 . HOLOTYPE: ♀, Japan, Mie provincie, Ôsudigami, 4.vii.1952, Sasakawa leg., Hering det. (ZMHB). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 290).

Chylizosoma sasakawae Hering, 1955: 7 . HOLOTYPE: ♀, Japan, Nara province, Omine Mt., 25.vi.1953, Sasakawa leg., M. Hering det. (ZMHB). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 292).

Chylizosoma albamentum Séguy, 1962: 163 . HOLOTYPE: ♀, China, ‘ Kan-su [= Gansu], 8.v.1919, E. Licent leg., Séguy det.’ (MNHN). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 290).

Cordylura convallaria Kaltenbach, 1874: 724 . HOLOTYPE: J, Austria; 1 label with the name convallaria and the name of locality ‘Charl. br. [=?], No. 11372’ (NHMW, see Note). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1978: 291).

Note. I discovered the male deposited in NHMW in 1972. The species name is apparently handwritten by Kaltenbach and it is most probably the holotype.

New record. AUSTRIA: without locality, 1 ♀, labelled ‘ Cord. convallariae Kaltenbach,

Mik det.’ and with one leaf of Polygonatum sp. with a mine (NHMW).

Distribution. Austria ( FRANZ 1989: 121); Belgium (DE JONG 2005); China ( SÉGUY 1962:

153); Czech Republic ( ŠIFNER 2003a: 65); Denmark (DE JONG 2005); Estonia ( ELBERG

1965: 345); Finland ( HACKMAN 1980: 131); France ( SÉGUY 1934: 667); Germany ( PÜCHEL

1999: 187); Great Britain ( CHANDLER 1998: 164); Hungary (DELY- DRASKOVITS 1981:

11, PAPP 2001a: 385); Ireland ( CHANDLER 1998: 164); Japan ( HERING 1955: 6-7); Latvia

(DE JONG 2005); Lithuania ( PAKALNIŠKIS et al. 2000: 44); Netherlands (DE MEIJERE 1940b:

124); Norway ( NELSON & GREVE 2002: 47); Poland (DRABER- MONKO 1991: 232); Russia

– European Russia ( GORODKOV 1970: 444); Slovakia ( ŠIFNER 2003a: 65); Spain (DE JONG

2005); Sweden ( HEDSTRÖM 1991: 144); Switzerland (MERZ & BÄCHLI 1998: 311); Ukraine

( SZILÁDY 1943: 180); Nearctic region ( VOCKEROTH 1965: 840).