Musca latifrons

Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 4208 (4), pp. 301-324 : 309-311

latifrons

Musca latifrons Fallén, 1817: 238 . Sweden, Skåne, Äsperöd.

Agria latifrons: Xiang et al. (1989 : 97, catalog, records); Shanghai Institute of Entomology Academia Sinica (1992: 85, checklist); Ma et al. (1998: 36, checklist); Nonnaizab (1999: 311, catalog and biology); Yao et al. (2000: 21, catalog).

Sarcophila latifrons: Verves (1982: 296, key) ; Verves (1985: 297–299, description, figs 264–265: male head, lateral and anterior views); Verves (1986: 117–118, catalog); Fan & Pape (1996: 244, checklist); Pape (1996: 167, catalog); Zhang et al. (2015: 484, 486, new synonymy, redescription, remarks; 485, fig. 19A: male body, lateral view, B: male terminalia, lateral view, C: male head, anterior view, D: male head, anterolateral view, E: male head, lateral view, F: male abdomen, dorsal view, G–H: labels).

Sarcophila mongolica Chao & Zhang, 1988: 274 . Type locality: China, Neimenggu, Qog B. Holotype, male, in ZMCAS. References: Chao & Zhang (1988: 274 –275, description, remarks and records, fig. 2a–b: male terminalia); Yang & Sun (1991: 89, catalog); Fan (1992: 614, key, fig. 1246m –n: male terminalia); Fan & Pape (1996: 244, checklist); Pape (1996: 167, catalog); Xue & Chao (1998: 1562, fig. 3131Mp–L1: male terminalia; 1564, key and catalog); Nonnaizab (1999: 312, catalog); Tian et al. (1999: 54, checklist); Cui et al. (2007: 388, catalog); Zhang et al. (2015: 484 , new synonymy).

Chinese specimens examined. Type specimens of Sarcophila mongolica Chao & Zhang, 1988 . CHINA: Neimenggu: Holotype, male, Qog B, 29.VI.1978 ; paratypes: 3 males, Erenhot , 8.VII.1972, C.M. Chao ; 2 males, Erenhot , 31.VII.1972, C.M. Chao (all ZMCAS) . Other specimens. CHINA: 1 male, Xinjiang, Altay, Kalamaili , 16.VIII.2009, D. Zhang ; 1 male, Ningxia, Lingwu , 19.VI.2012, Q. Gao & Y.R. Zhang ; 7 males, Xinjiang, Altay, Kalamaili , 45°14’30.12”N, 89°4’28.86”E, alt. 950 m, 15.V–9.VI.2014, M. Zhang (all MBFU) .

Distribution. CHINA: Neimenggu (Erenhot, Qog B, Urad), Ningxia (Lingwu), Xinjiang (Altay, Ruoqiang, Ürümqi); Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

Remarks. The presence of S. latifrons in the eastern Palaearctic has been debated, and Verves (1982) considered all records of this species from Mongolia to be misidentifications of S. rasnitzyni . Zhang et al. (2015) provided unambiguous documentation for the presence of this species in China.