Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) kerteszi Villeneuve 1912
Creators: name: Whitmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Sarcophaga
Sarcophaga kerteszi

description: Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) kerteszi Villeneuve, 1912
(Fig. 61)
Sarcophaga kerteszi Villeneuve, 1912a: 20.
Heteronychia dayani Lehrer, 1996b: 267, syn. nov. Salemea sororia Povolný, 2004: 8, syn. nov.
Type material examined. Sarcophaga kerteszi: Lectotype 3, herewith designated to fix unambiguously the identity of the nominal species and thus promote nomenclatural stability: Graecia / Ins. Poros // Kertészi / Villen. / (type) // [red label] LECTOTYPE 3 / Sarcophaga / kerteszi / Villeneuve, 1912 / det. D. Whitmore 2007 (IRSNB) [lectotype in good condition, with the terminalia extended].
Remarks. The type series of Sarcophaga kerteszi originally consisted of three males (Villeneuve 1912a: 20), two from Poros and one from Corfu, none of which was designated as holotype. The two from Poros are stated by Villeneuve to belong to HNHM and the one from Corfu to Becker’s collection. Clearly, Villeneuve kept at least one of the specimens from Poros in his own collection; this specimen is chosen as the lectotype.
Salemea sororia: [red label] Holotypus / det. Povolný [/] Salemea / sororia / [Sicily, Palermo prov.] Casina 22.V. / 0 1 // SALEMEA / SORORIA / HOLOTYPE (MMBC) [terminalia dissected and placed in glycerin in a microvial pinned beneath the source specimen].
Additional material examined. Greece: Crete (new regional record): Hania prov., Epanohori, 23.IV.2003, P. Cerretti et al. leg., 1 3 (CNBFVR); Georgioupolis, 6.X.2000, B. Gustafsson leg., 1 3, 1 Ƥ [in copula] (ZMUC); Peloponnese, Máni, 1–3.V.1998, V. Michelsen leg., 2 3 (ZMUC); Rhodes: Profitis, Ilias, 750m, 18.V.1983, R. Danielsson leg., 1 3 (ZMUC); Sianna, 28.V.1983, R. Danielsson leg., 1 3 (ZMUC). Israel: Mt. Hermon, 2000m, 9.VII.1975, M. Kaplan leg., 1 3 (TAU, as “ Heteronychia dayani det. Lehrer”); same locality, 1600m, 18.V.1976, J. Kugler leg., 1 3 (TAU, as “ Heteronychia dayani det. Lehrer”). Lebanon: Mt. Barukh, 9.IX.1984, I. Nussbaum leg., 2 3 (TAU, as “ Heteronychia dayani det. Lehrer”). Turkey: Antalya: Aslanbucak, 500m, 10.V.1992, C. Lange & J. Ziegler leg., 1 3 (NHRS); Köprülü Kanyon National Park, 28–29.IV.1993, V. Michelsen leg., 2 3 (ZMUC); Izmir, Samsundaġi National Park, 24–26.IV.1993, V. Michelsen leg., 1 3 (ZMUC).
Remarks. Direct comparison of type specimens of Sarcophaga kerteszi and Salemea sororia allowed me to assess the above synonymy.
Lehrer (1996b) described Heteronychia dayani on a single male from Mount Hermon in Israel (collected on 11.VIII.1977), for which he did not mention a depository. I did not find the holotype during my visit to TAU, but I found four specimens from Israel and Lebanon in the general sarcophagid collection identified by A.Z. Lehrer as “ Heteronychia dayani ” (one of which from Mt. Hermon), which I consider conspecific with the holotype of H. dayani, also based on the original illustrations of this species (Lehrer 1996b: 268, fig. 4). The only noticeable differences between these specimens and S. (H.) kerteszi can be found in details of the cercus, i.e. the much less pronounced dorsal knob and the almost straight, only slightly upturned tip (Fig. 61). As an intermediate condition can be observed in specimens of S. (H.) kerteszi from Greece and Turkey, I consider this variability to be intraspecific and propose Heteronychia dayani as a junior synonym of S. (H.) kerteszi.
The species is known, so far, from Crete, mainland Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Sicily and Turkey.
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 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201885