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Pelidnoptera fuscipennis
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Subspecies
No subspecies are recognized; a monotypic
species.
Original
description
Meigen, 1830
Meigen JW (1830). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten
europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Volume 6. Schulzische
Buchhandlung, Hamm. p. 16
The type locality is not cleary stated in the original description.
However, Meigen writes that he found both males and females in the area
where he lived ("beide Geschlechter aus hiesiger Gegend"). Thus, it is
likely that the types were collected around Stolberg, near Aachen
(Nordrhein-Westfalen). Meigen´s personal collection is in the
Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle Paris, but there are
no type specimens in this collection (Sueyoshi et al. 2009). The types
thus might have been distributed to other collections. There are a
number of alleged type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
(Sueyoshi et al. 2009), but so far the original types have not been
identified with certainty.
Synonyms
Sciomyza fuscipennis Meigen, 1830
Phaeomyia fuscipennis (Meigen,
1830)
Lignodesia fuscipennis (Meigen, 1830)
Pelidnoptera fuscipennis (Meigen, 1830)
Sciomyza fumipennis Zetterstedt,
1846
Lignodesia fumipennis (Zetterstedt, 1846)
Phaeomyia fumipennis (Zetterstedt, 1846)
Phaeomyia umbripennis Girschner, 1885
Phaeomyia pictifrons Becker, 1905 (nec Meigen) (an error)
Identification
Size ranges between 3.0 to 7,2 mm.
Distribution
Widely distributed in Europe. Recorded from Spain, Poland, Germany,
Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, UK, southern Scandinavia and the Baltic states (but
it is also recorded from Norway), France, Italy, Hungary,
Romania, northern Balcans, western Russia, Ukraine.
In Germany the species is recorded at least from these
Bundesländer: Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bayern.
Biology
The imagines fly from March to August. The preferred habitat are dry
forests. To my knowledge the immature stages of this species are so far
unknown.
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