Cordilura sibirica Gorodkov, 1974

Ozerov, A. L. & Krivosheina, M. G., 2020, A review of the genus Cordilura Fallén, 1810 (Diptera: Scathophagidae) of Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 29 (4), pp. 439-480 : 475

Cordilura sibirica Gorodkov, 1974

Figs 113–115.

sibirica Gorodkov, 1974: 388 ( Cordilura ). Type-locality: 6 km E of Kyren , 700 m (ca. 51.677ºN 102.214ºE) ( Russia, Buryatia).

REMARK. This species is known from a single male specimen [ Gorodkov, 1974: 388].

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Buryatia: Khargun, 6 km E of Kyren (51.677ºN 102.214ºE), Sayan Mountains, 700 m, 11.VII.1965, Gorodkov (holotype ♂, ZISP) .

DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION. Male. Body-length 7.5 mm. Head. Frontal vitta blackish, with whitish reflection; fronto-orbital plate black, with whitish reflection. Face yellowish with whitish reflection. Parafacial brownish, gena blackish. Postcranium black, grey dusted. 3 orbital and 3–4 frontal setae present. Antenna black. Postpedicel approximately 2 times as long as wide. Arista plumose, the longest hairs approximately equal to the width of postpedicel. Palpus black. Thorax black, grey dusted. Acrostichals setulose in two rows, dorsocentrals 3+3 (including scapular seta), intra-alars 0+(1–2), supra-alars 1+2, 2 postpronotals. Scutellum with a pair of strong discal setae only; apical scutellar setae as setulae or absent. Legs greyish dusted. Fore coxa black; femora of all legs black; tibiae and tarsi of all legs yellow. Wing tinged with brownish; veins blackish. Vein R 1 setulose on apical third of dorsal surface. Abdomen black, grey dusted. Male sternite 4 rectangular, slightly longer than wide. Male sternite 5, epandrium and surstyli as in Figs 113–115.

Female unknown.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Buryatia.