Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ancilla Rondani 1865
Creators: name: Whitmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Sarcophaga
Sarcophaga ancilla

description: Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ancilla Rondani, 1865
(Figs 45–46)
Sarcophaga ancilla Rondani, 1865: 226
Heteronychia iubita Lehrer, 1999: 410, syn. nov.
Spatulapica lucentina Lehrer & Martínez-Sanchez, 2001: 3, syn. nov.
Type material examined. Sarcophaga ancilla: Holotype 3: 1029 // Lectotypus / Sarcophaga / ancilla Rond. // Heteronychia / ancilla / det. F. Mihalyi // HOLOTYPE 3 / Sarcophaga / ancilla Rond. / T. Pape det. 1968 [sic! = 1986] (see Pape 1988).
Heteronychia iubita: Holotype 3: 10.V.1977 / leg. Kugler / FRANCE / Provence / Lagnes // Heteronychia 3 / iubita sp. n. / HOLOTYPUS / Det. Dr. A.Z. Lehrer / 1998 // Heteronychia 3 / iubita sp. n. / HOLOTYPUS / Det. Dr. A.Z. Lehrer /1998 (TAU); terminalia dissected and mounted on three separate slides, labelled as follows: Heteronychia 3 / iubita n. sp. / Det. Dr. A.Z. LEHRER // 3 HOLOTYPUS / Sternite V (TAU); Heteronychia 3 / iubita n. sp. / Det. Dr. A.Z. LEHRER // 3 HOLOTYPUS / Cerci & paralobi (TAU); Heteronychia 3 / iubita n. sp. / Det. Dr. A.Z. LEHRER // 3 HOLOTYPUS / Phallosome (TAU).
Additional material examined. France: Bouches-du-Rhône, Chaines-des-Alpilles, 21.IV.1994, R. Blackith leg., 6 3 (NHRS); Vingrau (66), V.2004, R. Richet leg., 1 3 (NHRS). Italy: 2 3: 1020 (MZUF) [these are paralectotypes of Pierretia (Heteronychia) rondaniana Rohdendorf, 1937 designated by Pape (1988: 17), and were both misidentified by Pape: one as S. (H.) depressifrons Zetterstedt, the other as S. (H.) bezziana Böttcher (= infantilis Böttcher) (see Pape 1988)]; Latium, Rieti prov., Amatrice, 7.VII.1897, 2 3 (SMF, Böttcher collection); Lombardy, Pavia, 10.VI.1890, 1 3 (SMF, Böttcher collection); Tuscany, Firenze, 10–18.V.1986, T. Pape leg., 3 3 (ZMUC). Spain: Lerida, Sierra de Boumort, 24.VI. 1982, 900m, Andersen, Lyneborg & Michelsen leg., 3 3 (ZMUC); Lerida, Tremp, 1–12.VII.1981, V. Michelsen, 1 3 (ZMUC). Switzerland: Valais, Leuk-Pfynwald, 630m, 25.V.1997, B. Merz leg., 1 3 (NHRS).
Remarks. Pape (2004a) synonymized Heteronychia iubita with Sarcophaga (H.) depressifrons Zetterstedt, 1845. Direct examination of the holotype, and the original description and illustrations (Lehrer 1999: 410 + fig. 1) allow me to formalize that H. iubita is a junior synonym of S. (H.) ancilla.
Spatulapica lucentina was described on a single specimen from Sierra Salinas (Alicante, Spain), deposited at DCAA (Lehrer & Martínez-Sanchez (2001: 221). I did not examine the holotype, but the original description and illustrations (Lehrer and Martínez-Sanchez 2001: 221, figs 1–5) correspond exactly to Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ancilla. Sarcophaga (H.) ancilla is a small species (3–4mm) with a shiny black epandrium, showing only slight variation in the shape of the cercus and distiphallus; the apical process of harpes is relatively long (Fig. 45), and the tip of juxta is narrow (less than 1/4 of width of juxta in apical view) (Fig. 46). Slightly larger specimens with a reddish-black to entirely red epandrium, a much shorter apical process of harpes and a much wider tip of juxta (about 1/3 of width of juxta in apical view), which have often been referred to as S. ancilla in the literature (e.g., Rohdendorf 1937: 356, figs 483–484; Povolný 1996: 106, fig. 19b), belong to Sarcophaga (H.) belanovskyi (Verves, 1973) (see below). Due to the confusion of the two species over a long period of time, the distribution of S. (H.) ancilla (see Pape 1996, 2004a) is in need of revision, and may even be restricted to south-western Europe. Illustrations of “ Heteronychia ancilla ” by Povolný (1996: 106, fig. 19a) and Povolný and Verves (1997: 165, fig. 177) refer to S. (H.) lederbergi (Lehrer, 1995a).
Both paralectotypes of Pierretia (Heteronychia) rondaniana designated by Pape (1988: 17) belong to S. (H.) ancilla (see above).
description: Published as part of Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, pp. 1-57 in Zootaxa 2778 on pages 17-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201885