Scathophaga inquinata
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Scathophaga
Scathophaga inquinata

description: Scathophaga inquinata (Meigen, 1826)   
 Scatophaga inquinata Meigen, 1826: 250. SYNTYPES: J ♀, ‘Beide Geschlechtern [= both sexes]’; type locality not given, no additional data quoted in the original paper (depository unknown).   
 Cordylura analis Meigen, 1826: 244, syn. nov. ? SYNTYPES: Austria, ‘Aus Österreich’; no additional data quoted in the original paper except: ‘von Hrn. Megerle von Mühlfeld als Brachygaster analis mitgetheilt […] In allem Uebrigen stimmen sie mit Cordylura überein.’ [= communicated by Mr. Megerle von Mühlfeld as Brachygaster analis […] It is identical in all characters with Cordylura.] (depository unknown).   
 Note. The original description states: ‘32. Cord. analis. Meg. [= Megerle]’. However, the remaining text does not confirm Megerle’s authorship. Thus I accept Meigen as the single author of the description (see ICZN 1999:Article 50).All characters of C. analis are within the limits of variability of S. inquinata and I therefore regard C. analis as a junior synonym of S. inquinata.   
 Scatophaga analis Meigen, 1826: 251, syn. nov. HOLOTYPE: ♀, type locality not given, no additional data quoted in the original paper except: ‘Aus dem Kais. Königl. Museum [= from the Imperial and Royal Museum]’ (current depository unknown).   
 Note. The original paper states: ‘7. Scat. analis. Meg. [Meg. = Megerle]’. However, the remaining text does not give any indication of Megerle’s authorship.Thus, I accept Meigen as the single author of the description (see ICZN 1999: Article 50).   
 BERNASCONI (2000: 42) wrote in his unpublished PhD thesis: ‘ S. analis, considered as a doubtful species in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (GORODKOV 1986), could be a synonym of S. inquinata. The [mitochondrial DNA] sequences of the two species are identical and incomplete sorting or introgression seem very unlikely in this case [...]’. I agree with Bernasconi’s opinion and establish S. analis as a junior synonym of S. inquinata.   
 Scatophaga thoracica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830:626. HOLOTYPE: ♀, France, canton Saint-Sauveur, departement Yonne, ‘[…] dans un bois touffu et humide [= in a dense and humid forest]’ (depository unknown). Synonymized by BECKER (1894: 168).   
 Scatophaga umbrarum Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 626, syn. nov. SYNTYPES: J ♀, France, canton Saint-Sauveur, departement Yonne, ‘[…] dans les lieux humides et dans les grands marais [= in damp habitats and in morasses]’ (depository unknown).   
 Note. All characters of S. umbrarum are within the limits of variability of S. inquinata and I therefore consider S. umbrarum as a junior synonym of S. inquinata.   
 Scatophaga turpis Haliday, 1832 in CURTIS (1832): 495.? SYNTYPES: England; no additional data quoted in the original paper (depository unknown). Synonymized by CHANDLER (1998: 164).   
 New records. ITALY: Sestri Levante, 28.iii.1906, 1 J, Dr. Uzel leg.; Ragusa, 1868, 1 J 1 ♀, no collector (NHMW). PORTUGAL: Estrelle Mts., Monteigas env., valley of Mondago river, 12.vi.1997, no collector (FSPC). SLOVENIA: Görz [= Nova Gorica], 26.vi.1864, 1 J, Mik leg. (NHMW).   
 Distribution. Austria (FRANZ 1989: 119); Belgium (DE JONG 2005); Czech Republic (ŠIFNER 2003a: 71); Denmark (DE JONG 2005); Estonia (ELBERG 1965: 351); Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 131); France (SÉGUY 1934: 697, BECKER et al. 1910: 661); Germany (PÜCHEL 1999: 187); Great Britain (CHANDLER 1998: 164); Hungary (DELY- DRASKOVITS 1981: 39, PAPP 2001a: 385); Ireland (CHANDLER 1998: 164); Italy (BEZZI 1918: 55); Latvia (DE JONG 2005); Lithuania (PAKALNIŠKIS et al. 2000: 45); Netherlands (DE JONG 2005); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 46); Poland (DRABER- MONKO 1991: 332); Portugal (this paper); Romania (KOWARZ 1873: 462); Russia – European Russia (GORODKOV 1970: 453); Slovakia (ŠIFNER 2003a: 71); Slovenia (this paper); Spain (DE JONG 2005); Sweden (HEDSTRÖM 1991: 144).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493