Sarcophaga ( Heteronychia ) plotnikovi Rohdendorf, 1925

Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 2778, pp. 1-57 : 44

Sarcophaga ( Heteronychia) plotnikovi Rohdendorf, 1925

Sarcophaga plotnikovi Rohdendorf, 1925: 53 .

Heteronychia ( Eupierretia) brachystylata Chao & Zhang, 1988: 78 , syn. nov.

Material examined. Kyrgyzstan: Alai. 45 km S of Kyzyk-Kiya, Isfairim-Sai basin, 1800–2000m, 10.VII.1999, V. Korneyev & E. Kamenova leg., 1 3 ( YVC); Chuy Thon-Aryk, Boz-Peldek Mt., Bishkek, 1094m, 12.VI.1999, C. Young leg., 1 3 ( NHRS); Dzhalal Abad, 5 km E of Kosh Bulak, 1820m, 30.VI.1999, C. Young leg., 2 3 ( NHRS); Issyk-kul, 10km E of Kadhzi-Saj, S. Issyk Kul lake, 1675m, 5.VII.1999, C. Young leg., 1 3 ( NHRS); 20 km N of Lejlek, 5–24.IX.1968, L. Primykina leg., 7 3 ( YVC, ZIN); same locality, 14–29.VIII.1969, L. Primykina leg., 4 3 ( MMBC, ZIN); 30 km NE of Lejlek, 16–31.VIII.1968, L. Primykina leg., 5 3 ( ZIN). Uzbekistan: Surchan-Darja, 3.VI.1960, Sychevskaya leg., 1 3 ( ZIN); Tashkent, 19.IV.1919, 1 3 ( ZIN). Tajikistan: Darvaz, Djorf, 26.VIII.1943, Stackelberg leg., 1 3 ( ZIN); Gadzhei, 6 3 ( ZIN); Garm, 26.VII, 1 3 ( ZIN); Gissar, 8.VIII.1943, Stackelberg leg., 2 3 ( ZIN); Kondara, Varzob, 3.V.1944, Stackelberg leg., 4 3 ( ZIN); Zimtut, 14.IX.1962, 1 3 ( ZIN).

Remarks. Rohdendorf (1925: 54) described Sarcophaga plotnikovi on two male syntypes from Uzbekistan, Tashkent Region, both located at ZMUM (although no depository was originally mentioned by Rohdendorf). I did not examine these syntypes, the slides containing the terminalia of which appear to be lost (A. Ozerov, pers. comm. 2008). I could not examine type material of Heteronychia brachystylata either (including the holotype 3 from Baicheng (Xinjiang, China), deposited at IZCAS, but the rather vague arguments used by Chao and Zhang (1988: 80) to distinguish their new species from S. plotnikovi , paired with the good correspondence of the original illustrations of both species, leave few doubts as to their conspecificity. Sarcophaga ( H.) plotnikovi shows considerable variability in length of the juxta.