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Kieffer, 1894
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=
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Plakidas, 2017
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=
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFE6EFC2080007376" bold="true" box="[469,562,1008,1032]" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">syn. nov.</emphasis>
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The genus
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFEA8FBE78348732F" box="[275,378,1079,1105]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus</emphasis>
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is, after
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, second within the
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in terms of species richness. Only eight of previously 133 valid species are non-Palearctic (
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;
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,
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). However, vast stretches of the Palearctic region are entirely unexplored for this genus, while a comparatively small, integral part of it – the land area of
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– has been shown to contain 95 different species (Jaschhof &amp; Jaschhof 2017). This imbalance suggests that the number of undiscovered
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should be immense; and, indeed, unnamed
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we have seen over the years from only a few places in the Palearctic outnumber all the species previously named in the genus (unpublished data). Most descriptions of
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFCBBFADF81557257" box="[768,871,1295,1321]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus</emphasis>
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published in the past 60 years were based on the morphology of male adults, the consequence being that we are comparatively uninformed regarding female and larval structures. Both the generic definition and intrageneric classification of
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are largely based on male characters (
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ff.). According to present opinion, the male genitalia are the only morphological structures of
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diverse enough to provide taxonomists with sufficient information. Unawareness of this enormous diversity has repeatedly misled taxonomic authors to separate single, seemingly aberrant species from the core of the genus, or
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFE53FA37807D717F" box="[488,591,1511,1537]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus</emphasis>
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, and classify those in discrete subgenera (see the synonymy of
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in
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.
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Recently, two new genera were proposed to absorb two newly described species that according to our definition are representatives typical of the
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Mamaev
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group (
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ff.):
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Plakidas, 2017 and
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFE57F9A680EE71EE" box="[492,732,1654,1680]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Ampullomyia surcula</emphasis>
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. As regards generic characters of
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,
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referred to the lack of tegminal processes (which is the key feature of the
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group), along with female and larval traits, which in our opinion are uninformative here because the respective conditions in most
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, including the
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group, are unknown and thus inaccessible to comparison.
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, described on the basis of male traits, differs from
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFDEEF8D7808E705F" box="[597,700,1799,1825]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the absence of the subanal plate (
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), which in our opinion is a less than convincing argument as long as all other characters speak for
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFBFCF8FB869C703B" box="[1095,1198,1835,1861]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. We know of several
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC2FF8EFF2CF89F82CC7017" authorityName="in Gagne &amp; Jaschhof" authorityYear="2017" box="[151,254,1871,1897]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="352" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFF2CF89F82CC7017" box="[151,254,1871,1897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, both within and outside the
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC2FF8EFDF2F89F80997016" authorityName="Mamaev" authorityYear="1961" box="[585,683,1871,1896]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="352" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="smirnovi">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFDF2F89F80997016" box="[585,683,1871,1896]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">smirnovi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group, where the subanal plate is hard to discern due to its largely membranous texture ― even less so when, for lack of experience, one does not know what exactly to look for as to determine the plate’s presence. Moreover,
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFDC0F846815970CE" box="[635,875,1942,1968]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Ampullomyia surcula</emphasis>
as described by
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is indistinguishable from
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC2FF8EFEB7F86B80F370AB" authority="Mamaev &amp; Berest" authorityName="Mamaev &amp; Berest" authorityYear="1990" box="[268,705,1978,2005]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="352" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="umbrellus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFEB7F86B83D870AA" box="[268,490,1978,2005]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Aprionus umbrellus</emphasis>
Mamaev &amp; Berest
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="F322767FFFC2FF8EFCBCF86A815770AA" box="[775,869,1978,2004]" name="Ukraine" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Ukraine</collectingCountry>
. The present senior author studied the
<typeStatus id="548E884DFFC2FF8EFAA0F86A874F70AA" box="[1307,1405,1978,2004]" pageId="3" pageNumber="352" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC2FF8EFF2CF80F83147086" authorityName="Mamaev &amp; Berest" authorityYear="1990" box="[151,294,2014,2041]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="352" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="umbrellus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC2FF8EFF2CF80F83147086" box="[151,294,2014,2041]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">A. umbrellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
a few years ago; in addition we know of a conspecific male from
<collectingCountry id="F322767FFFC2FF8EFBA0F80E86B17086" box="[1051,1155,2014,2040]" name="Germany" pageId="3" pageNumber="352">Germany</collectingCountry>
(unpublished). The Ger- man specimen, which we reexamined here, has a soft, sparsely microtrichose structure in the position where other
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC5FF89FF2CFF6D82CC77A9" authorityName="in Gagne &amp; Jaschhof" authorityYear="2017" box="[151,254,189,215]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FF2CFF6D82CC77A9" box="[151,254,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
hold the subanal plate. Apparently,
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FD28FF6D811077A9" box="[659,802,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">A. umbrellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is one of those
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC5FF89FC6EFF6D860E77A9" authorityName="in Gagne &amp; Jaschhof" authorityYear="2017" box="[981,1084,189,215]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FC6EFF6D860E77A9" box="[981,1084,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
whose hypoproct is retained in the plesiomorphous state. In conclusion, the type species of
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FC96FF3181867785" box="[813,948,225,251]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Azygotricha</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FC52FF3186AD7785" box="[1001,1183,225,251]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Ampullomorpha</emphasis>
come within the limits of the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC5FF89FE9CFED583BC7661" authorityName="in Gagne &amp; Jaschhof" authorityYear="2017" box="[295,398,261,287]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FE9CFED583BC7661" box="[295,398,261,287]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as presently defined, which is why we treat both names as junior synonyms.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8A36EFFFC5FF89FF7CFEF9875D7619" blockId="4.[151,1437,153,360]" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">
Among our Swedish material of
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<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FD84FEF98094763D" box="[575,678,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are eight unnamed
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC5FF89FC31FEF981C3763D" authorityName="in Gagne &amp; Jaschhof" authorityYear="2017" box="[906,1009,297,323]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FC31FEF981C3763D" box="[906,1009,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">Aprionus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, of which two are qualified for taxonomic description here. Both are members of the
<taxonomicName id="4C354D6CFFC5FF89FD79FE9D81947616" authority="(Kieffer)" baseAuthorityName="Kieffer" baseAuthorityYear="1894" box="[706,934,333,360]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Aprionus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spiniger">
<emphasis id="B941EAFDFFC5FF89FD79FE9D810F7619" box="[706,829,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="353">A. spiniger</emphasis>
(Kieffer)
</taxonomicName>
group (
<bibRefCitation id="EFA44B1EFFC5FF89FC46FE9D87517619" author="Jaschhof, M. &amp; Jaschhof, C." box="[1021,1379,332,359]" pageId="4" pageNumber="353" pagination="1 - 333" refId="ref13620" refString="Jaschhof, M. &amp; Jaschhof, C. (2009) The Wood Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 18, 1 - 333." type="journal article" year="2009">Jaschhof &amp; Jaschhof 2009: 275</bibRefCitation>
).
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