New species of Aprionus (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Micromyinae) from Sweden and other parts of the Palearctic region
Author
Jaschhof, Mathias
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Station Linné, Ölands Skogsby 161, SE- 38693 Färjestaden, Sweden. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 8 B 4 B 11 B 4 - 7 C 33 - 41 AC-A 042 - AA 9903 CDC 4 B 1 & Corresponding author: mjaschhof @ yahoo. de
mjaschhof@yahoo.de
Author
Jaschhof, Catrin
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Station Linné, Ölands Skogsby 161, SE- 38693 Färjestaden, Sweden. & Email: cjaschhof @ yahoo. de & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: BE 4 CA 083 - 88 F 6 - 4037 - 826 D- 605 FFF 5078 F 7
cjaschhof@yahoo.de
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2017
2017-12-12
378
1
38
journal article
21947
10.5852/ejt.2017.378
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2118-9773
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Genus
Aprionus
Kieffer, 1894
The genus has recently been revised (
Jaschhof 1998
) and updated (
Jaschhof 2015
,
2016
;
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009
, 2015, 2017), a circumstance that greatly facilitates identifying and classifying unnamed species. Even so, to distinguish closely related
Aprionus
from each other using male morphology (which is the routine method, see
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009
) continues to be challenging. As shown here using the example of
Aprionus styloideus
Mamaev & Berest, 1990
, previously accepted names may denote species complexes rather than single species, with this kind of hidden biodiversity usually discovered when extensive new study material becomes available.
The genus
Aprionus
is defined by male genitalic characters, as follows (see
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: 219
). The gonocoxites are connected ventrobasally by an extremely short bridge, typically a thin, curvate, sclerotized bar; the tegmen of many species is provided with finger-like processes, a structure not known from other
Micromyinae
; and the hypoproct is present as a glabrous, usually partially sclerotized structure called subanal plate, which differs from the soft, microtrichose and often sparsely setose double-lobe forming the hypoproct in other
Micromyinae
.