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Topic: pesky flies and beetles

HI

have come across two things whilst entering some Pete Kirby data.....

Tephritis divisa (Rondani, 1871), Diptera: Tephritidae. Not in NHM or NBN Gateway or Recorder6,

quote from Essex field club website"Species text
Tephritis divisa was recorded new to Britain from Sussex in 2004. It was first found in August 2004, swept off bristly oxtongue during an insect survey of The Brooks, an area designated as a public open space on the outskirts of Bognor Regis. On a return visit at the end of August the fly was found to be present in large numbers and this led Peter Hodge to investigate other sites where bristly oxtongue grows during September and October 2005." Hodge, P. (2005) A review of wildlife recording in East & West Sussex in 2005, in ADASTRA 2005, published by the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre.)

and Carpelimus erichsoni (Sharp, 1871)  Coleoptera: Staphylinidae. Not in NHM or NBN Gateway or Recorder6,

comment from Mark Telfers website (http://markgtelfer.co.uk/beetles/staphy … xytelinae/)
"Carpelimus
I have found the illustrations of Carpelimus by Gil’denkov (2001) to be very useful. They deserve to be more widely seen and used so here’s a document covering the British and Irish species (updated 9th March 2010 to mention C. alutaceus): Carpelimus illustrations from Gil’denkov.
In addition, I offer some more detailed notes on separation of the Carpelimus incongruus and C. zealandicus species pair, drafted by myself with help from Richard Lyszkowski. Download PDF here.
The first British record of Carpelimus alutaceus (Fauvel) was published by Lott (2009a; 2009b): a single male found in 1990 on the banks of the River Soar, near Loughborough (SK52), Leicestershire. It can be identified from the keys in Lohse (1964) but is not illustrated there or in Gil’denkov (2001).
Lott (2011)  gives further information about four species (bilineatus, erichsoni, similis and rivularis) which are placed in subgenus Paratrogophloeus. There are photos of the aedeagi."

Lott, D.A. (2011). Some recent developments affecting the British list of Oxytelinae (Staphylinidae). The Coleopterist, 20, 23 – 30.

Louise Bacon
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Re: pesky flies and beetles

a further fly:  A bit less sure about this one

Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallen 1823)  (see for exampel http://eol.org/pages/807345/overview)
  but it may have synonyms: http://www.globalspecies.org/ntaxa/438979 of Synonyms: Chrysotus annulipes; Chrysotus cinerellus which also do nto seem to exist.  It does seem to have been recorded in the UK: http://72.44.83.99/photogallery.php?photo_id=4867

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Hi Louise

Thanks for commenting on those names - they raise some interesting issues:

- Tephritis divisa (Rondani, 1871) : this one is a bit embarrassing because there haven't been updates to our version of Peter Chandler's list for a long time ... about 2004 actually. Names have been added in an ad-hoc way but the checklist is high on my list to be updated. Stuart Ball should sending me the up to date list in database form in the next few days and I will try to fit it in in the coming months.

- Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallen 1823) : this one seems to have gone through a few synonymies and is in the database as "Sympycnus desoutteri Parent, 1925" - I quote from Chandler:

"Sympycnus desoutteri Parent, 1925 (= annulipes authors Brit., not (Meigen, 1824 - Chrysotus)) was not mentioned by Negrobov (1991) but he recorded S. pulicarius (Fallén, 1823 - Dolichopus) from Britain. This was due to synonymy by Meuffels (1981), who considered that desoutteri was a form of pulicarius with a shorter third antennal segment. This synonymy requires clarification but Cole (1987) has indicated that "desoutteri" includes two species in Britain, differing in chaetotaxy of male hind tarsi."

- Carpelimus erichsoni (Sharp, 1871) : this was added by the 2012 Andrew Duff checklist, which is waiting to be updated ... just not enough time in the day recently :)

I will add all those names thought and give the TVKs back here tomorrow.

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

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Re: pesky flies and beetles

Hi Louise

Tephritis divisa Rondani, 1871    TVK NHMSYS0020976859

Carpelimus erichsoni (Sharp, 1871)  TVK NHMSYS0020976865

I have left the Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallen 1823) [=Sympycnus desoutteri Parent, 1925] conundrum until I get the Chandler updates to the Diptera checklist. Peter will be able to sort it out, if he hasn't already ;)

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Hi Chris,

resurrecting an old question here, but did you resolve Sympycnus pulicarius? Can't find it in 3X. Just to make things more interesting, this http://www.diptera-in-beeld.nl/Ref-Key% … l_2015.pdf turned up whilst googling it.

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Re: pesky flies and beetles

Yes, I think so ... I have the following:

Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallén, 1823)
   =Sympycnus annulipes Brit. auctt., nec (Meigen)   
   =Sympycnus desoutteri Parent, 1925

http://nbn-sd-dev.nhm.ac.uk/taxonbrowse … pulicarius

I think that matches the Pollet paper.

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)