Swammerdamella brevicornis ( Meigen, 1830 )

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 : 51

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.1.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:761290B6-8D54-4FC6-AD16-0B1AA494F139
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17894635
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scientific name	Swammerdamella brevicornis ( Meigen, 1830 )
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2. Swammerdamella brevicornis ( Meigen, 1830) View in CoL ĦssDzĸxü

Scatopse brevicornis Meigen, 1830 View in CoL . Syst. Besch., VI: 314. Type locality: not given.

Description. Male. Body length 1.6–1.9 mm, wing length 1.4–1.6 mm. Morphological characters as in Cook 1956.

Material Examined. 2♂, China, Qinghai Province, Qilian [ Ēê], Huangzangsi [ Wëȕ] [ 38°25’ N, 100°19’ E, 2588m], 2023. VIII. 2, Shang Gao ( CAU) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. China ( Qinghai Province); Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain ( Canary Islands), Spain (Continental), Sweden, Switzerland.

Remarks. According to the literature record, this species has a wide distribution in Eurasia ( Ebejer 2021; Haenni 2013; Haenni & Kettani 2011; Hrviniak et al. 2018; Oboňa et al. 2017) and can be separated from other species of this genus by the characters of male terminalia and tergite 7. The two males available were collected by sweeping net in Qinghai Province, belonging to the Palaearctic Region.