Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Chinese species of Sarcophaga Meigen, 1824 (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Chao Wang; Haoran Sun; Weibing Zhu; Thomas Pape; Qiyong Liu; Dong Zhang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1108.83267

Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Chinese species of Sarcophaga Meigen, 1824 (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Zookeys. 2022 Jun 24:1108:141-159. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1108.83267. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Chao Wang^{1

2}, Haoran Sun², Weibing Zhu³, Thomas Pape⁴, Qiyong Liu¹, Dong Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector Surveillance and Management, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China Beijing Forestry University Beijing China.
² School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Beijing China.
³ Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai China.
⁴ Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark.

Abstract

New taxonomic and nomenclatural data are provided for Chinese species of Sarcophaga Meigen, 1824. Eight new synonyms are proposed: two at the genus level, Magnicauda Wei, 2005 syn. nov. = Sarcophaga Meigen, 1824 and Leigongshanophaga Lehrer & Wei, 2010 syn. nov. = Sarcophaga Meigen, 1824, two at the subgenus level, Magnicauda Wei, 2005 syn. nov. = Pterosarcophaga Ye, 1981 and Leigongshanophaga Lehrer & Wei, 2010 syn. nov. = Cornexcisia Fan & Kano, 2000, and four at the species level, Sarcophagacatoptosa Wei & Yang, 2007 syn. nov. = Sarcophagasuthep Pape & Bänziger, 2003, Pierretiadaozhenensis Wei, 2005 syn. nov. = Sarcophagasichotealini (Rohdendorf, 1938), Pierretiaautochthona Wei & Yang, 2007 syn. nov. = Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) kanoi Park, 1962, and Parasarcophagasimultaneousa Wei & Yang, 2007 syn. nov. = Sarcophagahuangshanensis (Fan, 1964). Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) aegyptica Salem, 1935 is considered a senior synonym of Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) parkeri (Rohdendorf, 1937). Correct original spellings are established, by First Reviser action, for the genus-group names Magnicauda Wei, 2005 and Pterosarcophaga Ye, 1981 and for the species-group name Magnicaudalinjiangensis Wei, 2005. Chinese material of Sarcophaga (Bellieriomima) genuforceps, S. (Robineauella) huangshanensis (holotype and paratype), S. (Liosarcophaga) kanoi, and S. (L.) aegyptica is photographed for the first time.

Keywords: Leigongshanophaga; Magnicauda; Sarcophaga; new synonyms; nomenclature; original spellings; revision; taxonomy.

Chao Wang, Haoran Sun, Weibing Zhu, Thomas Pape, Qiyong Liu, Dong Zhang.

Grants and funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2020YFC1200101), National Science Foundation of China (No. 31872964, 31572305) and the Beijing Forestry University Outstanding Young Talent Cultivation Project (No. 2019JQ03018)