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 Cleigastra apicalis ( Meigen, 1826 ) [Japanese name: Hizaguro-funbae] ( Figs 11–14 ) Cordylura apicalis Meigen, 1826: 236 . Type-locality: not given. Material examined. Honshu , 2 ♂ , 1 ♀ , Mt. Hayachine , Iwate Pref. , 17-18. vi. 1971 , leg. S. Shinonaga ; 1 ♂ , Sawauchi Vill. , Iwate Pref. , 19. v. 1991 , leg. T . Hasegawa ; 1 ♂ , 2 ♀ , Mt. Shiritaka , Ishikawa Pref. , 23. v. 1971 , leg. S. Shinonaga ; 1 ♂ , Mt. Hakusan , Ishikawa Pref. , 24. v. 1971 , leg. S. Shinonaga. Diagnosis. This species can be characterized as follows: face, parafacial, and gena distinctly silvery shiny; fore coxae yellow; scutellum with apsc and dsc setae ( Fig. 11 ); legs very bristled; fore femur yellow often with black stripe anteriorly with long black and pale hairs ventrally; female fore femur without pale hairs; mid and hind femora with black apical rings; posterior lobes on male sternite V with long hairs ( Fig. 12 ); male surstyli apically broad in posterior view ( Fig. 14 ); male cerci sclerotized and projected dorsally ( Figs 13, 14 ). Body length ( ♂ ♀ ). 7.8–8.2 mm. Distribution. Europe (widespread), Iraq , Mongolia , Russia (widespread) ( Ozerov & Krivosheina, 2015 ), and Japan (Honshu).