Review of the European Greenomyia Brunetti (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) with new descriptions of females
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Kurina, Olavi
Author
Hedmark, Kjell
Author
Karstroem, Mats
Author
Kjaerandsen, Jostein
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.77.936
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.77.936
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Greenomyia stackelbergi Zaitzev, 1982
Figures 481216202428
Type material studied:
Holotype ♂, RUSSIA. Primorskiy Terr., Santaheza, 07.VII.1927 (A. Stackelberg leg.) [ZIN, on pin].
Other material studied: SWEDEN. 4 ♀♀, Lu. Jokkmokk, Vuollerim, in garden, 105 m.a.s.l., Malaise trap, 11.VIII.-19.IX.2003 (K. Hedmark and M.
Karstroem
leg.); 1♂, the same locality, Malaise trap 11.-19.VIII.2004; 25♂♂ 15♀♀, the same locality, Malaise trap 11.VIII.-7.X.2005; 11♂♂ 4♀♀, the same locality, Malaise trap 11.VIII.-22.IX.2006; 18♂♂ 14♀♀, the same locality, yellow pan-trap
VII-
08.X.2006; 17♂♂ 7♀♀, the same locality, yellow pan-trap 16.VI.-20.VII.2007; 14♂♂ 4♀♀, the same
locality
, Malaise trap 12.VIII.-28.IX.2007; 9♂♂ 3♀♀, the same locality, window trap
VI-
11.IX.2007; 4♂♂ 1♀, the same locality, Malaise trap 13.-27.VI.2008; 1♀, the same locality, yellow pan-trap 19.VI.2008; 1♂, the same locality, window trap 1.VI.-1.VII.2008. In total 153 specimens: 100♂♂ 53♀♀, [most in Coll. Hedmark, some in IZBE and MZLU, most of the material preserved in alcohol, while some specimens are mounted from alcohol to pins or slide mounted].
Diagnostic characters.
Female.Thorax bi-coloured; mesonotum yellow with variably developed black thoracic stripes; pronotum and propleuron yellow, other pleural parts brown to blackish. Abdominal sternites I-IV entirely yellow or slightly brownish; tergites of first four segments bi-coloured: basally yellow, apically brown (in a few occasions first four tergites entirely brown). Legs all yellow except dark brown band on apical fourth of hind femur. Tibiae densely covered with brown setulae. Scape, pedicel, and 3-5 flagellomeres yellow, rest of flagellum light brown. Mouthparts yellow. Apical palpal segment 4.1-4.4 (n=5) times as long as penultimate segment. Wing hyaline with slight yellowish tinge, all veins reach wing margin, M1 and CuA2 basally obsolete or very weak. Terminalia brown, cercus one-segmented, apically yellow. Gonapophysis IX membranous, subsquare with shallow incision apically, not visible in lateral view. Tergite VIII wider than tergite IX. Sternite VIII medially with deep and narrow incision, lateral incisions more shallow.
Male. Coloration and other non-terminal characters similar to female. The apical palpal segment is 4-5 (n=5) times as long as penultimate segment.
Remarks.
Besides its peculiar distribution (see Fig. 29),
Greenomyia stackelbergi
is unique among the four studied species in having vivid yellowish colouration and hyaline wings. It was described from South Primorje in the Russian Far East (
Zaitzev 1982
) and has subsequently been recorded only from two semi-urban localities in the Nordic region: the single locality in Swedish Lapland (present material,
Kjaerandsen
et al. 2007
) and from one locality in the capital of Norway, Oslo (
Soli
and
Kjaerandsen
2008
). Eight years of collecting (2002-2009) with Malaise traps, yellow pan-traps and window traps near a compost in the garden of one of the authors (MK) yielded 153
specimens
, indicating rise and decline of a small population. None was collected in the first and the last year, while four in 2003, one in 2004, 40 in 2005, 47 in 2006, 54 in 2007 and seven in 2008. The flight activity lasted almost the whole vegetation season, from the middle of June (in 2007) to the beginning of October (in 2004). A garden compost is the supposed microhabitat for this population of
Greenomyia stackelbergi
and its origin should be somewhere in the surroundings. A close potential natural habitat could be the Vuollerim ravine a few hundred meters away. Waste from picked forest fungi might be another possibility.
Figure 29. Known records of European
Greenomyia
species.
Greenomyia borealis
(black squares): 4 original data 5
Polevoi 2000
(marked with a question mark) 7
Chandler 2005
9
Chandler 2005
10
Kjaerandsen
et al. 2007
, original data 12
Lackschewitz 1937
13 original data from two localities 16
Winnertz 1863
17
Chandler 1998
,
2005
(doubtful) 22
Sevcik
and
Kosel
2009
26
Sevcik
and Papp 2001
29
Chandler et al. 2006
30 original data 32
Zaitzev 1982
, 1994 33
Zaitzev 1982
, 1994 38
Zaitzev 1982
, 1994.
Greenomyia baikalica
(green squares): 3
Gammelmo and
Soli
2006
4
Kjaerandsen
et al. 2007
5
Polevoi 2000
(three different localities) 6
Polevoi 2001
34
Zaitzev 1994
35
Zaitzev 1994
.
Greenomyia mongolica
(blue squares): 2
Soli
et al. 2009
8
Chandler 2010
(seven different localities) 11
Kjaerandsen
et al. 2007
14
Kurina 1997
15
Zaitzev 1994
17
Matile 2002
(as
Greenomyia theresae
) 18
Matile 2002
(as
Greenomyia theresae
) 19
Caspers 1996
20
Kurina 2008a
(as
Greenomyia theresae
) 21 original data 22
Martinovsky
and
Sevcik
1998
,
Martinovsky
and
Bartak
2000
23
Plassmann 1996
24
Matile 2002
(as
Greenomyia theresae
) 25
Sevcik
and
Martinovsky
1999
27
Papp 2000
(several different localities), original data 28
Bechev 1989
30 original data 36
Lastovka
and Matile 1974
37
Zaitzev 1982
, 1994 40
Zaitzev 1982
, 1994.
Greenomyia stackelbergi
(red squares): 1
Soli
and
Kjaerandsen
2008
4
Kjaerandsen
et al. 2007
39
Zaitzev 1982
, 1994.