Empis kamtchatica Frey 1935

Dataset
Notes on species of Empididae (Diptera) described by R. Frey from the Swedish Kamchatka Expedition 1920 - 1922: Rank
SPECIES: Published in
Frey, R. (1935) Entomologische Ergebnisse der schwedischen Kamtschatka-Expedition 1920 - 1922. 36. Diptera Brachycera. 5. Empididae, Micropezidae, Lauxaniidae, Chloropidae. Arkiv for Zoologi, 28 A (10), 1 - 8.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Arthropoda: class
Insecta: order
Diptera: family
Empididae: genus
Empis: species
Empis kamtchatica

discussion

Remarks. Chvála & Wagner (1989) synonymised E. kamtchatica with E. subciliata Loew. Later Chvála (1999: 205) commented on this synonymy. He noted a single female specimen of E. kamtchatica in MZH, and probably based on the Frey type label, assumed erroneously that this specimen was the holotype. I consider Chvála’s statement as a lectotype fixation (sensu O’Hara & Cerretti (2016). Although I could not examine the lectotype. I have studied two paralectotypes from NHRS and can confirm that they agree with Frey’s description and are identical with E. subciliata.

materials_examined

Type locality (by lectotype fixation): Russia, Kamchatka, “ Bolscherjetsk ” [= Ust-Bolscheretsk]. Notes on the type series. Frey described this species after the female sex only. He noted the following material: “ 2 ♀, Kamtchatka (Malaise). Ausserdem im Museum zu Helsingfors 1 ♀ von Kamtchatka: Bolscherjetsk (Wuoren- taus) ”. Type material examined. PARALECTOTYPES: Kamtschatka, Malaise; Spec. typ.; Empis kamtschatica [sic!] Frey [hand-written by Frey], Frey det. (1 ♀, NHRS). Kamtschatka, Malaise (1 ♀, NHRS).

Name

Homonyms: Empis kamtchatica Frey 1935