Scatophila pumilio (Loew, 1860) (Figs 10–12, 21–25) Scatella pumilio Loew, 1860: 44. Scatophila pumilio: BECKER (1896): 244 (combination). Type locality. Lower Silesia (as ʽSchlesien'), Poland. Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀ in moderate condition (Fig. 22), labelled: ʽSchlesien Scholtz // Coll. H. Loew // 14496 // Scatella pumilio m. [handwritten] // Holotypus [red]' (ZMHB). Other material examined. BELGIUM: Knokke (Zwijn), 5.iii.1950, M. Bequaert leg., 1 ♂ (RBINS). GERMANY: Berlin-Jungferheide, 22.iii.1908, L. Oldenberg leg., 1 ♂ (SDEI). Diagnosis. Body grey with pattern on mesonotum (Figs 24, 25); face not shiny, without whittish microtomentum; acrostichal setulae similar in size; wing with conspicuous spots (Figs 21, 22); margin of wing at apex of vein R 4+5 rounded (Fig. 21); knob of halter light brown; male terminalia (Figs 10–12) with epandrial anterior margin slightly projected medially (Fig. 10), phallapodeme Y-shaped, split posteriorly (Fig. 12). Distribution. Palaearctic: Belgium (BASTIN 1931, ZATWARNICKI 2023), Czech Republic (KUBÁTOVÁ- HIRšOVÁ 2006, ZATWARNICKI & KEJVAL 2022), Germany (BÄHRMANN 1988, HOLLMANN- SCHIRRMACHER & ZATWARNICKI 1999), Hungary (PAPP & ADÁM 1996), Poland (LOEW 1860, the type locality), Portugal (STUKE et al. 2024). Old records by BEUTHIN (1887), KRÖBER (1910, 1935), SAAGER (1970) are possibly misidentification of other Scatophila species. Remarks. Labels of the holotype and short redescription of Scatophila pumilio were provided by PAPP (1975). The species was erroneously synonymized with S. noctula (Meigen, 1830) by ZATWARNICKI (1987), then resurrected from synonymy by ZATWARNICKI & MATHIS (1994).

Published as part of Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz & Kejval, Zbyněk, 2025, A review of Palaearctic species of the contaminata group of Scatophila (Diptera: Ephydridae) with description of a new species, pp. 157-165 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 65 (1) on pages 163-164, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2025.012, http://zenodo.org/record/16972893