New Dicerurini from Europe, mostly Sweden (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae, Porricondylinae)
Author
Jaschhof, Mathias
Author
Jaschhof, Catrin
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-02-20
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.2
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Tetraneuromyia
Mamaev, 1964
This Palearctic genus of previously nine species (
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013
,
2015
) is enlarged here by four new species from
Sweden
and
Slovakia
. Three of the new species are true novelties, whereas the fourth results from splitting
T. lamellata
Spungis, 1987
sensu
Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2013)
into two discrete species. Furthermore, the male of
T. bulbifera
Mamaev, 1964
is redescribed based on specimens from
Sweden
, thereby completing our revision of
Tetraneuromyia
species begun earlier (
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013: 155ff.
).
Tetraneuromyia varimezovi
from
Bulgaria
, a species of which we have not seen specimens, seems to resemble
T. lenticularis
(
Spungis, 1987
)
, if the male genitalic sketch provided by the describing authors (
Mamaev & Dimitrova 1998: fig. A
) is correct. The genus
Tetraneuromyia
is characterized by the tegmen whose basic structure is a central trunk of inverted T-shape, which extends into long, bent apodemes basolaterally and one or two pairs of processes apically (see, for example,
Fig. 23
). Size, outline and orientation of the tegminal processes have merit for the identification of species (
Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013
,
2015
, this paper). The only exceptions from this pattern are
T. lamellata
and
T. errata
sp. nov.
, two similar-looking species, whose tegmina lack processes, but have fringes of small barbs (
Figs 26–28
).