Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Author Dominiak, Patrycja Author Szadziewski, Ryszard text Zootaxa 2010 2437 1 37 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.194838 6369ec00-c6c7-45a4-82ee-03ce5a29f628 1175-5326 194838 Dasyhelea flaviventris (Goetghebuer) Culicoides flaviventris Goetghebuer, 1910 : 96 (female, Belgium ). Dasyhelea flaviventris : Kieffer 1919 : 49 (combination, in key); Goetghebuer 1920 : 41 (male, female; Belgium ); Goetghebuer 1933a : 365 (syn.: = halobia ); Goetghebuer 1934a : 28 (male, female, syn.: = scutellatus Winnertz nec Meigen, = halobia ); Thienemann 1950 : 167 (syn.: = halobia , Austria , breeding site – water margin zone in lake); Remm 1962 : 127 (male, female; Estonia ); Remm 1966 : 60 ( Lithuania ); Remm 1967 : 22 ( Azerbaijan , Georgia ); Remm 1969: 208 (male); Remm 1973b : 355 ( Hungary ); Havelka 1976a : 62 ( Germany ); Havelka 1976b : 225 (male, female, syn.: = scutellata Winnertz nec Meigen, = halobia ); Havelka 1978b : 176 ( Germany , syn.: = scutellata Winnertz nec Meigen, = halobia ); Remm 1979 : 50 ( Estonia ); Sahuquillo Herráiz & Gil Collado 1982 : 748 ( Spain ); Gil Collado & Sahuquillo Herráiz 1983 : 44 (male, female); Delécolle & Rieb 1990 : 184 ( France ); Szadziewski 1991 : 106 ( Poland ); Knoz 1997 : 81 ( Czech Republic ); Knoz 1998 : 118 ( Czech Republic ); Tóthová et al. 2004a : 309 ( Czech Republic ); Tóthová et al. 2004b : 146 ( Czech Republic ); Dominiak et al. 2007b : 4 ( Poland ). Prokempia halobia Kieffer, 1924 : 12 (male, female, larvae in saline habitats; Germany ). Prokempia flaviventris : Kieffer 1925c : 72 (combination, male, female). New country records. Algeria . Aokas n. Béjaia, freshwater swamps, 6 May 1981 , 4 males , leg. R. Szadziewski. Sétif, Apiaceae , 5 May 1981 , 3 males , leg. R. Szadziewski. Bulgaria . Pirin, Sandanski, 12 June 1984 , 6 males , leg. W. Krzemiński. Rila, Rilski Monastir, 26 June 1982 , 1 male , leg. W. Krzemiński. North Korea . Near Pyongyang, 13 June 1981 , 1 male , leg. W. Krzemiński. Morocco . Larache, south of Tanger , 9 April 1984 , 1 male , leg. P. Sura. Romania . Lacul Rosu n. Piatra-Neamţ, 46°47.139'N 25°47.589'E , 971 m AMSL, 21 June 2007 , net, 2 males , leg. P. Dominiak. Prislop Pass n. Borşa, 47°36.556'N 24°51.898'E , 1433 m AMSL, 24 June 2007 , net, 1 male , leg. P. Dominiak. Saschiz n. Turda, 46°10.301'N 24°59.453'E , 443 m AMSL, 18 June 2007 , net, 4 males , leg. R. Szadziewski. Distribution. Estonia , Lithuania , Germany , Poland , Belgium , Czech Republic , France , Austria , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria , Spain , Georgia , Azerbaijan , North Korea , Morocco , Algeria . Discussion. This species is an arboreal Palaearctic faunal element. It has been reared from mosses covering a log at a lake margin and from wet soil (present observation). Records based on females from England ( Edwards 1926 ) and Zaire ( Goetghebuer 1933b ) are doubtful. The occurrence of this species in Hungary , reported by Zilahi-Sebess (1940) , was confirmed by Remm (1973b) . Goetghebuer (1934a) and Remm (1988) synonimized Prokempia halobia with D . flaviventris (subgenus Prokempia ) while Borkent & Wirth (1997) placed it among synonyms of D . flavoscutellata (subgenus Pseudoculicoides ). According to the original description, it is similar to D . flaviventris but the latter species was never collected in saline habitats. It is possible that D . halobia from saline habitats ( types lost) actually belongs to the subgenus Pseudoculicoides as suggested by Borkent & Wirth (l.c.) (see also D . halobia among nomina dubia).