Brachycoma nigra

Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 4208 (4), pp. 301-324 : 306

nigra

Brachicoma nigra Chao & Zhang, 1988: 275 (as “ Brachycoma nigra ”). Type locality: China, Sichuan, Xiangcheng. Holotype, male, in ZMCAS. References: Chao & Zhang (1988: 275 –276, descriptions of male and female, remarks, records, fig. 3a: male head, lateral view, b: male terminalia, c: male left hind tibia); Yang & Sun (1991: 89, catalog); Fan (1992: 615, key, fig. 1247a: male head, lateral view, g: male left hind tibia, m: male terminalia,); Zhang & Chao (1993: 1174, catalog, fig. 2a: male head, lateral view, b: male terminalia, c: male left hind tibia); Fan & Pape (1996: 244, checklist); Pape (1996: 162, catalog); Xue & Chao (1998: 1562, fig. 3130L1: male terminalia, E: male left hind tibia; 1563, key and catalog); Cui et al. (2007: 386, catalog); Xue & Rong (2013: 986‒987, redescription of male; 987, fig. 1–1: male head, lateral view, 2: male hind leg, posterior view, 3: male abdomen, dorsal view, 4: sternite 5, ventral view, 5: cercus, dorsal view, 6: male terminalia, lateral view); Feng (2014: 109, faunistics); Zhang et al. (2015: 481 , 484, detailed redescription; 482, fig. 17A: male body, lateral view, B: male terminalia, lateral view, C: head, anterior view, D: head, anterolateral view, E: head, lateral view, F: abdomen, dorsal view, G–H: labels; 483, fig. 18A: body, lateral view, B: head, right lateral view, C: head, anterior view, D: head, anterolateral view, E: female abdomen, dorsal view, F: labels).

Chinese specimens examined. CHINA: Sichuan: Holotype, male, Xiangcheng , alt. 3800 m, 2.VII.1982 ; paratypes: 10 males, Xiangcheng , alt. 3800 m, 2.VII.1982 ; 1 male, Hongyuan , alt. 3500 m, 28.VIII.1983 ; 1 female [“allotype”], Luding, alt. 2050¯ 2400 m, 18.IX.1982; all collected by X.Z. Zhang (all ZMCAS).

Distribution. CHINA: Sichuan (Hongyuan, Luding, Xiangcheng), Yunnan (Zhongdian [= Shangri-La]); Palaearctic Region.