Spilogona nitidicauda
Creators: name: Sorokina, Vera S.
name: Shaikevich, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Spilogona
Spilogona nitidicauda

description: Spilogona nitidicauda (Schnabl, 1911)
Figs 4B, E, H, 5B, E, H
Type locality
RUSSIA: Yamalo-Nenetsk AO.
Material examined
Syntype
RUSSIA: 5 ♁♁ 5 ♀♀, “Karskaja tundra, s. Tobol’s. gub., 21.vii.09, Zaizev” [Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO, east slope of Polar Ural, mouth of the River Kara, ~ 69º02′N, 64º35′E, 21 Jul. 1909, Zaizev leg.]. 1 ♁, holotype of Limnophora (Spilogona) nitidicauda var. depressa Schnabl, same data as for preceding (ZISP).
Other material examined
RUSSIA: 9 ♁♁ 2 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, environs of Muzdy-Bulak lake, 49°17′ N, 87°39′ E, 2450 m a.s.l., 26 Jun. 2005, 1–2 Jul. 2005, A. Barkalov and V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 24 ♁♁ 8 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, environs of Kal’dzhin-Kul’- Bas lake, 49°19′ N, 87°26′ E, 2400–2600 m a.s.l., 17–21 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 4 ♁♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, 8 km NW of Maitobe Mountain, 49°34′ N, 87°43′ E, 2400–2500 m a.s.l., 8–10 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 12 ♁♁, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Ukok plateau, Rodonovyi spring, upper part of Zhumaly River, 49°27′ N, 88°03′ E, 2410 m a.s.l., 24 Jun. 2005, 4 Jul. 2005, 23–24 Jul. 2006, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, upper part of Naryn-Gol River, 49º49′ N, 89º32′ E, 2520 m a.s.l., 15–19 Jul. 2009, V. Sorokina and T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁, Altai Republic, Kosh-Agach district, Severo-Chuyskyi Ridge, valley of Aktru River, 50°06′ N, 87°48′ E, 1865–2064 m a.s.l., 21 Jul. 2013, T. Novgorodova leg. (SZMN); 2 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ongudai district, Terektinskiy range, upper part of Bolshoi Yaloman River, 50º28′ N, 86º19′ E, 2200– 2300 m a.s.l., 3 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Kurayskiy range, 50º20′ N, 87º45′ E, 2500–2800 m a.s.l., 29–30 Jun. 2008, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN); 5 ♁♁ 16 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, environs of Dzhulukul’ lake, 50º28′ N, 89º46′ E, 2200 m a.s.l., 21 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 2 ♁♁ 5 ♀♀, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Shapshal’skiy mountain range, upper part of Shuy River, 50º32′ N, 89º48′ E, 2550–2878 m a.s.l., 23–25 Jul. 2007, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁ 1 ♀, Altai Republic, Ust-Koksa district, 47 km W Ust-Koksa, Krasnaya Mountain, 50°04′ N, 85°13′ E, 2000–2100 m a.s.l., 16 Jul. 2015, V. Sorokina leg. (SZMN); 15 ♁♁ 3 ♀♀, Chukotka AO, Beringovskii district, 40 km SSW of Beringovskii, 62º43′ N, 178º55′ E, yellow plate trap, 22–23, 26 Jul. 2012, A. Stekolshchikov leg. (SZMN); 1 ♀, Chukotka AO, 30 km NW of Krasneno, Anadyr river, 64º46′ N, 174º8′ E, 15 Jul. 2014, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁, Krasnoyarsk Kray, Taymyr Peninsula, Kuria village, upper part of Pyasina river [70°16′ N, 88°30′ E], alder forest near village, 13 Jul. 1967, K. Gorodkov leg. (ZISP); 1 ♀, Krasnoyarsk Kray, Taymyr Peninsula, 114 km S of Khatanga, Kotuy river, 71°02′ N, 103°00′ E, 2–5 Jul. 2010, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁ 2 ♀♀, Nenets AO, Khaypudyrskaya Bay, “Chuba”, 68°16′ N, 59°57′ Е, yellow plate trap, meadow, 6–16 Aug. 2015, O. Makarova and Bizin leg. (SZMN); 1 ♁ 1 ♀, Nenets AO, Bolvanskaya Bay, 68°05′ N, 54°47′ Е, yellow plate trap, anthropogenic meadow, 18–25 Jul. 2015, O. Makarova and Bizin leg. (SZMN); 1 ♀, Nenets AO, Pakhancheskaya Bay, 68°29′ N, 57°26′ Е, 26 Jul.–5 Aug. 2015, O. Makarova and Bizin leg. (SZMN); 2 ♁♁, Yamalo-Nenets AO, 73 km NE of Labytnangi, Longot’egan river, 67º19′ N, 66º43′ E, 175 m a.s.l., 2, 10 Jul. 2015, A. Barkalov leg. (SZMN).
SWEDEN: 1 ♁, Abisko, Nuolja, meadow below Topstation, 19 Jul. 1987, A. Pont leg. (SZMN).
Distribution
Holarctic Region; in the Palaearctic, from North Scandinavia, Russia and China. Arcto-alpine species.
description: Published as part of Sorokina, Vera S. & Shaikevich, Elena V., 2018, The identification of the species of the ' Spilogona contractifrons species-group' and the ' Spilogona nitidicauda species-group' (Diptera, Muscidae) based on morphological and molecular analysis, pp. 1-26 in European Journal of Taxonomy 484 on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.484, http://zenodo.org/record/3825664