Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) proxima Rondani, 1860

Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 2778, pp. 1-57 : 45-46

Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) proxima Rondani, 1860

Sarcophaga proxima Rondani, 1860: 392 .

Heteronychia lednicensis Povolný in Povolný & Verves, 1986: 115, syn. nov.

Type material examined. Sarcophaga proxima : Holotype 3: 1041 // Spec. buona / non = / proxima / Pand. / Böttcher // HOLOTYPE 3 / Sarcophaga / proxima Rond. / T. Pape det. 1986 // Heteronychia / proxima (Rond.) / T. Pape det. 1986 ( MZUF).

Heteronychia lednicensis : Holotype 3, preserved in what appears to be a mixture of (somewhat aromatic) ethanol and glycerin in a large glass vial with a plastic, screw-on lid containing the following labels: Nejdek [ Czech Republic], 13.5. / 83. spec. ?? // [blank red label] // lednicensis ( MMBC) [terminalia located in a microvial in the same vial, together with the small handwritten label “ lednicensis ”; the vial was topped up with 70% ethanol after examination].

Additional material examined. Austria: Kärnten, Oberschütt, 29.VII. 1993, 600m, C. Lange & J. Ziegler leg., 1 3 ( NHRS); Mödling, 17.VII.2002, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC). Croatia: Sljeme, 23.VI.1931, N. Baranov leg., 1 3 ( USNM). Czech Republic: Brno, V. 1935, 1 3 ( MMBC); same locality, 17.VII.1940, 1 3 ( MMBC); same locality, 5.V.1954, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC); Brno, Kamenný vrch, 300m, 6.VIII.1997, Farkač leg., 1 3 ( ZMUC); Brno-Kozí, hora steppe, 330m, 2.IX.1986, M. Barták leg., 1 3 ( ZMUC); Hády, 3.IX.1940, 1 3 ( MMBC); same locality, 4.VI.1942, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC); Kanice, 16.VIII.1940, 1 3 ( MMBC); Moravany, 18.VI.1942, 1 3 ( MMBC); Pálava, 2.VIII.1983, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC); same locality, 5.VII.1995, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC); Praha-Lysolaje, 300m, 30.VII.1993, M. Barták leg., 1 3, 1 Ƥ ( ZMUC); Zdánice, 10.VII.1942, 2 3 ( MMBC); same locality, 3.VIII.1942, 2 3 ( MMBC). France: Pyrénées-Orientales, Vernet-les- Bains, 1 3 ( IRSNB); same locality, 14.VII.1904, 2 3 ( IRSNB). Estonia: Peedu, 2.VII.1951, Stackelberg leg., 6 3 ( ZIN). Italy: Lombardy: Bergamo prov., Selvino, 20–21.VIII.1901, 2 3 ( USNM); Sondrio prov., Le Prese, 950m, 7–24.VII.1997, A. Bellati leg., 18 3 ( NHRS); Sicily (new regional record), Messina prov., Montalbano Elicona, Due Monti, 1.VI.2002, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC); Trentino-Alto Adige, Trento prov.: Lago di Levico, 4.VII.2010, D. Whitmore leg., 2 3 (CNBFVR); Mori, 12.IX.1890, 1 3 ( USNM); Storo, 9–16.VII.1986, S. Andersen leg., 1 3 ( ZMUC). Russia: Leningrad region, Luga, 19.VII.1953, Stackelberg leg., 33 3 ( ZIN); same locality, 11–14.VII.1956, Stackelberg leg., 2 3 ( USNM). Serbia: Golubac, 20.V.1925, N. Baranov leg., 1 3 ( USNM); same locality, 12.VI.1925, N. Baranov leg., 1 3 ( USNM); same locality, 7.V.1927, N. Baranov leg., 2 3 ( USNM); same locality, 27–28.V.1929, N. Baranov leg., 2 3 ( USNM); same locality, 2.V.1936, N. Baranov leg., 1 3 ( USNM). Spain: Lerida, Sierra de Boumort, 24.VI. 1982, 900m, S. Andersen et al. leg., 1 3 ( ZMUC); Malgrat de Mar, 28.VI.1996, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 ( MMBC). Ukraine: Chernobyl region, Khotyn, 26– 29.VIII.1983, Yu.G. Verves leg., 2 3 ( MMBC); Dnipropetrivs’k region, Novomolovs’k, 1–2.VIII.2000, Yu.G. Verves leg., 2 3 ( YVC); Kiev, Gryshko botany garden, 15.VIII.2006, Yu.G. Verves leg., 1 3 ( YVC).

Remarks. The terminalia of the holotype of Heteronychia lednicensis are strongly deformed by treatment with KOH. This, together with the belief that Sarcophaga (H.) proxima has a sharply pointed pregonite (see also Povolný & Verves 1997), induced Povolný to describe a new species, but the holotype of H. lednicensis is in fact a specimen of S. (H.) proxima .