Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) belanovskyi Verves 1973
Creators: name: Whitmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Sarcophaga
Sarcophaga belanovskyi

description: Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) belanovskyi (Verves, 1973), revived stat.
(Figs 47–48)
Heteronychia (Heteronychia) belanovskyi Verves, 1973: 946. Type locality: Ukraine, Zaporozhye Region, environs of Berdyansk [not Zhdanov, as reported by Verves (1986) and Pape (1996)].
Heteronychia (Heteronychia) povolnyi Mihályi, 1975: 104, syn. nov.
Type material examined. Heteronychia (Heteronychia) povolnyi: Holotype 3: Budapest / Csillebérc // 1957. IX.7 / leg. Mihályi // rét // Heteronychia / (s. str.) sp. nova! / Det. B. Rohdendorf // Holotypus / Heteronychia / povolnyi / Mihalyi (HNHM) [severely damaged: both wings and all legs missing except right fore leg; epandrium and terminalia included in Canada balsam in a small slide pinned beneath the source specimen, rest of abdomen missing].
Additional material examined. Georgia: Abkhazia, Suchum, 13.VI.1932, B. Rohdendorf leg., 1 3 (ZIN, as “ ancilla ”, see Rohdendorf 1937: 356, figs 483–484). Hungary: Budapest, Sashegy, leg. Povolný, 2 3 (MMBC, as “ Heteronychia ancilla ”); Kiskunság National Park, 23.VIII.1986, 1 3 (ZMUC); Kalocsa, Thalhammer leg., 2 3 (SMF, Böttcher collection). Italy: Abruzzi, L’Aquila prov., Anversa degli Abruzzi, M.te Mezzana, Bocca Mezzana, 1475–1548m, 29.VII.1997, P. Cerretti leg., 1 3 (CNBFVR); Latium, Castelporziano, IX.1938, G. Saccà leg., 1 3 (MZUR, as “ ancilla ”); Lombardy, Brescia prov., Serle, Villa, 550m, 15.VIII.2005, D. Avesani leg., 1 3 (CNB- FVR). Romania: Bucharest, Montandon leg., 1 3 (SMF, Böttcher collection). Serbia: Topcider, 3.V.1924, N. Baranov leg., 1 3 (USNM). Ukraine: Odesa region, Ismail district, Suvorove, VIII.2003, Y. Protzenko leg., 1 3 (YVC, as “ Heteronychia ancilla ”).
Remarks. Heteronychia belanovskyi was described based on the holotype 3 and 14 male paratypes, all deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kiev (Verves 1973: 946–947). I was not able to examine any of the type specimens, but the original description and illustrations are sufficiently detailed for H. belanovskyi to be considered a senior synonym of H. povolnyi.
Shortly after describing Heteronychia povolnyi, Mihályi (1979a) synonymized both the latter and Heteronychia belanovskyi with Heteronychia ancilla. However, Sarcophaga (H.) belanovskyi should be considered a valid species as it differs from S. (H.) ancilla by several features: usually larger size (5–6mm vs. 4–5mm); entirely or partly red epandrium (shiny black in S. ancilla); cercus often with a sharply pointed tip (blunter in S. ancilla); distiphallus (Fig. 47): proximal part of harpes rounded, bulging; apical process of harpes much shorter than in S. ancilla; juxta wider in apical view (Fig. 48). Sarcophaga (H.) belanovskyi is possibly more closely related to S. (H.) armeniaca (Rohdendorf, 1937) than it is to S. (H.) ancilla. Povolný (1996: 106) suggested that S. (H.) armeniaca and S. (H.) ancilla are conspecific, but this synonymy is not supported by the morphology of the material examined.
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 page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201885