Swammerdamella pediculata ( Duda, 1928 )

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 : 60

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.1.2
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scientific name	Swammerdamella pediculata ( Duda, 1928 )
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9. Swammerdamella pediculata ( Duda, 1928) View in CoL MäDzĸxü

Scatopse pediculata Duda, 1928 View in CoL . In: Lindner, Fliegen. Palaearkt. Reg., 2: 33–34. Type locality: Europe (exact location not given).

Description. Male. Body length 1.5–1.6 mm, wing length 1.1–1.2 mm. Female. Body length 1.6–1.7 mm, wing length 1.3 mm. Morphological characters as in Cook 1956.

Material Examined. 2♂ 1♀, China, Heilongjiang Province, Heihe [ Dzñ], Pingshan Tree Farm [ ṮƜū场] [ 49°34’ N, 126°56’ E, 302m], collected by sweep net, 2024. VII. 5, Yuetian Gao ( CAU) GoogleMaps ; 15♂ 10♀, China, Liaoning Province, Fushun [ Kũ], Lijiacun [ ṃṽť] [ 41°60’ N, 124°22’ E, 540m], collected by Malaise trap, 2020. VI GoogleMaps . 20, Tao Li ( CAU).

Distribution. China ( Heilongjiang Province, Liaoning Province); Germany, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Remarks. The cup-shaped process on male tergite 7 and a highly sclerotized aedeagus can easily distinguish this species. S. pediculata has been recorded in several European countries ( Haenni 2013) since the original description and the specimens examined in this paper were collected from Northeast China.