An update of Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) taxonomy, with descriptions of a new genus and 13 new species from Northern Europe
Author
Jaschhof, Mathias
Author
Jaschhof, Catrin
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-12
4750
3
349
369
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.3
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Neurolyga
Rondani, 1840
This Holarctic genus of previously 25 extant species was last revised by
Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2009: 123
ff.) with a focus on Fennoscandia. Since then, our taxonomic inventory of the
Micromyinae
in
Sweden
has revealed another five unnamed
Neurolyga
, of which two are described here, while the rest must be shelved for the time being due to insufficient specimens.
Neurolyga
is a well-defined genus of the tribe
Campylomyzini
(
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009:
123
f.). The diversity found in male genitalic structures was once used for subdividing the genus into several species groups (
Jaschhof 1998
), a practice later abandoned due to the discovery of species with intermediate character distributions (
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009
). The genus includes many rarely collected species, an observation corroborated by the two species described here.