Swammerdamella acuta Cook, 1956

Xiao, Yishen, Hong, Dawei, Li, Zhu & Yang, Ding, 2025, First report of the genus Swammerdamella Enderlein, 1912 (Diptera: Scatopsidae) in China, with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 5723 (1), pp. 49-70 : 50-51

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.1.2
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scientific name	Swammerdamella acuta Cook, 1956
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1. Swammerdamella acuta Cook, 1956 View in CoL 尖DzDzĸxü

Swammerdamella acuta Cook, 1956 View in CoL . Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., 49: 20. Type locality: Sweden: Pajama .

Description. Male. Body length 1.5–1.6 mm, wing length 1.5 mm. Female. Body length 1.4–1.7 mm, wing length 1.4–1.5 mm. Other morphological characters as in Cook 1956.

Material Examined. 2♂ 4♀, China, Beijing, Xiaolongmen National Forest Park [ 小ẑm国ṽŭūȓ园] [39°97’ N, 115°43’ E, 1330m], 2023. VI . 13, Chen Lin ( CAU) .

Distribution. China ( Beijing); Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Remarks. This is a common species that can be found in Europe and Russian Far East (Cook 1956, 1972; Haenni 2013; Haenni et al. 2023; Krivosheina 1999). It is easily distinguished from other species of this genus by the paired row of small setae present on the inner margin of male sternite 7 and trangular shaped male terminalia. The specimens we examined were collected by sweep net in Beijing, which is also located in the Palaearctic Region.