Muscina levida Harris 1780
Creators: name: Vikhrev, Nikita E.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Muscina
Muscina levida

description: Muscina levida Harris, 1780
Figs. 5, 8, 9
Muscina assimilis Fallen, 1823
Muscina danubea Zielke, 2019, syn. nov.
AZERBAIJAN: Lankaran Distr., Xanbulan, 38.66 ° N, 48.80 ° E, N. Vikhrev, 25.10.2008, 2♂; Yardimli Distr., Kyurekchi, ulmus forest, 38.86 ° N, 48.11 ° E, 1700 m, K. Tomkovich, 23– 25.05.2009, 2♂;
FINLAND, Harjavalta, on dead mice, 61.31 ° N, 22.14 ° W, T. van Ooik, 25.06.2009, 1♂, 1♀; GREECE, Serres Reg., Promachonas env., 41.3772N, 23.3663E, G. Ramel, 18– 24.07.2007, 1♂;
KAZAKHSTAN: Kyzylorda Reg., Kazalinsk env., 45.757 ° N, 62.311 ° E, K. Tomkovich, 15– 19.05.2011, 1♂; Almaty Reg., Medeu, Malaya Almatinka R., 43.17 ° N, 77.04 ° E, 1450 m, N. Vikhrev, 15– 21.05.2016, 1♂;
MOLDOVA, Vadul lui Voda near Chișinau (47.08 ° N, 29.10 ° E), V. Sychevskaya, 16.09.1973, 5♂, 6♀;
RUSSIA: Altai Kray Reg., Biysk (52.50 ° N, 85.15 ° E), V. Sychevskaya, 23.08.1971, 1♂; Altai Republic Reg., Shebalino Distr, Peschanaya R. (51.95 ° N, 86.39 ° E), O. Kosterin, 29.07.2008, 1♂;
Amur Reg., Tygda vill., pasture, (55.1 ° N, 126.3 ° E), G. Veselkin, 25.07.1977, 1♂; Arkhangelsk Reg., Yuras R., 64.52 ° N, 40.70 ° E, N. Vikhrev, 5.08.2011, 1♂;
Buryatia Reg., Turan env., 51.67 ° N, 101.684 ° E, 870 m, N. Vikhrev, 9.06.2021, 1♂; Kamchatka Reg., Lazo (55.54 ° N, 159.76 ° E), Ovcharenko, 17.06.1981, 1♀;
Khabarovsk Reg., Khabarovsk, airport env., 48.53 ° N, 135.13 ° E, N. Vikhrev, 5– 7.06.2022, 4♂; Nizhnyaya Manoma, 49.33 ° N, 136.61 ° E, N. Vikhrev, 22.06.2022, 1♂, 1♀; Khanty–Mansi Reg., Shapsha vill., 61.09 ° N, 69.46 ° E, K. Tomkovich, 22– 31.07.2018, 1♂; 1– 15.08.2018, 1♂;
Moscow Reg. Ruza env., 55.66 ° N, 36.05 ° E, E. Erofeeva:11– 20.07.2015, 1♂;10– 20.08.2015, 1 ♂; Podolsk env., 55.385 ° N, 37.509 ° E, forest glade, K. Tomkovich, 16.05.2021, 1♀; Murmansk Reg., Monchegorsk env. (67.9 ° N, 32.8 ° E), M. Kozlov, 25– 31.07.2009, 1♂; Sakhalin Reg.: Yuzhno–Kurilsk Distr., Ivanoskiy Cape (43.839 ° N, 145.411 ° E), I. Melnik, 8– 15.08.2008, 1♂, 4♀ Tretyakovo env., near stream (43.99 ° N, 145.80 ° E), I. Melnik, 13– 22.09.2009, 1♂; volcano Golovnina, lodge Ozernyi (43.874 ° N, 145.482 ° E), K. Makarov, A. Zaitsev, 25– 27.08.2009, 1♂; 13 km south of the city of Nevelsk (46.51 ° N, 141.86 ° E), Proschalykin, Loktionov, 16.07.2011, 1♂, 2♀; Yamalo-Nenets Reg., Schuchya R. (66.8 ° N, 67.1 ° E), P. Basikhin, 22– 25.06.1084, 3♀; 16.07.1984, 2♀;
SERBIA, Kalna village, Timok River, 43.417 ° N, 22.424 ° E, N. Vikhrev, 19– 21.09.2014, 1♂; SPAIN, Canary Islands Reg., Tenerife Isl.: south slope, 28.166 ° N, 16.637 ° W, 1500 m, N. Vikhrev, 30.03.2011, 1♂; north part, N. Vikhrev, 25– 30.03.2011, 1♀; TAJIKISTAN, Varzob Distr.: Varzob vill., (38.77 ° N, 68.82 ° E), 1134–1210 m, K. Tomkovich, 30.05.2010, 1♀; Kondara Gorge, 38.81 ° N, 68.82 ° E (1200 m), A. Medvedev, 19.06.2016, 4♂;
TURKEY, Sakarya prov., Karasu, 41.1 ° N, 30.7 ° E, N. Vikhrev, 14– 15.06.2010, 1♂; UKRAINE: Cherkasy Reg., Kaniv env., (49.7 ° N, 31.4 ° E): M. Delikatnyi, 01.08.1977, 3♀; V. Sychevskaya, 16.09.1975, 1♂; Zakarpattia Reg., Uzhgorod Distr., Turya Polyana NR (48.7 ° N, 22.8 ° E), L. Zimina, 27.06.1954, 1♀.
DISTRIBUTION. A Holarctic species distributed in the south to the Levant and in the north beyond the Arctic Circle.
SYNONYMY. Muscina danubea was described from a single male collected in 1976 from Romania, Danube Delta near Mahmudia (45.08 ° N 29.10 ° E). In the description Zielke (2019: 72) wrote “palpus … of changing colour depending on angle of light, from yellowishorange to dark”. In the diagnosis Zielke (2019: 73) mostly argued that the new species is not M. prolapsa: a glance at the photo of the holotype is enough to agree with it. Zielke also mentioned that his new species was not M. levida because its palpi were not black and male frontal vitta was not linear. We discussed above that the colour of palpi in M. angustifrons is variable depending on the age of specimen, in M. levida the palpi never become pure yellow, but they often become brownish in specimens collected long ago. For example, we have a series of M. levida from Moldova which is neighboring Romania (the type locality of M. danubea) and collected as long ago as the holotype of M. danubea (in 1973). Several specimens from the Moldovan series have distinctly yellow-brown palpi. The width of the frontal vitta in M. levida is more variable than in the other species of Muscina, it may be linear as in Fig. 8 or broader as in Fig. 9. Zielke (2019: 73) also mentioned the presence of several long fine v setae near the base of f3 of M. danubea, such setae are actually present in M. levida (and to a less extent in M. angustifrons). So, Zielke’s arguments are unconvincing and Muscina levida Harris, 1780 = M. danubea Zielke, 2019, syn. nov.
description: Published as part of Vikhrev, Nikita E. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2023, Notes on Palaearctic Muscina (Diptera, Muscidae), pp. 31-41 in Amurian Zoological Journal XV (1) on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-1-31-41, http://zenodo.org/record/11089068