New taxa and new records of Winnertziinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Germany
Author
Jaschhof, Mathias
8B4B11B4-7C33-41AC-A042-AA9903CDC4B1
Station Linné, Ölands Skogsby 161, 38693 Färjestaden, Sweden.
mjaschhof@yahoo.de
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2024
2024-09-05
953
1
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https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2649/12235
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2024.953.2649
2118-9773
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Genus
Claspettomyia
Grover, 1964
The genus
Claspettomyia
previously comprised 35 species from all biogeographic regions but the Australasian/Oceanian region (
Gagné & Jaschhof 2021
;
de Almeida Garcia
et al.
2023b
). Several of the eight species found in Europe also occur in Asia or North America (here marked with asterisks):
C. carpatica
Mamaev, 1998
,
C. formosa
(Bremi, 1847)
*,
C. hamata
(Felt, 1907)
*,
C. niveitarsis
(Zetterstedt, 1850)
*,
C. paneliusi
Mamaev, 1998
,
C. rossica
Mamaev, 1998
,
C. toelgi
(Kieffer, 1913)
*, and
C. ussuriensis
Mamaev, 1998
*. In their revision of the
Claspettomyia
of
Sweden
,
Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2013: 274)
recognized five species, including
C.
aff.
kirghizica
Mamaev, 1998
, which to our current knowledge is an unnamed species. The treatment of
Claspettomyia
in the present paper proceeds where the 2013 revision ended, with the novelty that the delimitation of species is now supported by CO1 sequences, if available. As regards the merit of morphological structures for defining species, the suggestions by
Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2013: 275)
remain valid. Also, the need to revise the taxonomy of northern hemisphere
Claspettomyia
persists, although such an ambition seems unrealistic insofar as the bulk of the critical material is deposited in hard-to-reach collections in
Russia
,
China
, and
India
(
Gagné & Jaschhof 2021
). The fact that morphological descriptions of
Claspettomyia
in the literature are all too often insufficient for the purpose of species identification affects also the present project. Of 11 species identified here, only six can be related to a specific name:
C. hamata
and
C. toelgi
, both recognized earlier as occurring in
Germany
(
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2021b
), two first-time records, and two new species, which are described and named below. The remaining five species resemble in various ways
C. carpatica
,
C. formosa
,
C. hamata
, and
C. niveitarsis
, but I am unable to decide whether they are undescribed or unidentifiable from the literature.