Three new species and six new records of Scathophagidae (Diptera) from Japan with a key to the Japanese genera Author Iwasa, Mitsuhiro text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-08 4981 3 531 553 journal article 5897 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.6 e602c4fe-7400-4287-b3f5-62fecf81f369 1175-5326 4921413 6416487B-1776-4BA5-AFB5-6D382C1940D4 Megaphthalma pallida ( Fallén, 1819 ) [Japanese name: Seobi-kiiro-funbae] ( Figs 28–29 ) Cordylura pallida Fallén, 1819: 8 . Type-locality: “Westrogothis… Scania ” [ Sweden ]. Material examined. Hokkaido , 2 ♀ , Iwanai Riv., Obihiro, Tokachi, 19. ix. 1995 , leg. M. Iwasa. Diagnosis. This species is recognized by the following characteristics: frons, face, parafacial, and gena yellow ; prescutum and scutum dark brown; postpronotum and thoracic pleura yellow; scutellum yellow with a pair of apical setae ( Fig. 28 ); legs wholly yellow; abdominal tergites wholly yellow with narrow black line on each posterior margin ( Fig. 29 ). Body length ( ♀ ). 5.5–6.0 mm. Distribution. Europe, Japan ( Hokkaido ), Russia (the European part, Siberia, the Far East) ( Bagachanova et al ., 2016 ), North America. New to Japan . Remarks. Available specimens of this species are females, but as a result of my examination of specimens of M. pallida preserved in the Museum National d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), the characteristics agreed with those of female M. pallida .