Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-05
Page range: 275–295
Abstract views: 87
PDF downloaded: 4

Catochini, Strobliellini and Acoenoniini revisited: a taxonomic review of the small tribes of the Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Station Linné, Ölands Skogsby 161, SE-38693 Färjestaden, Sweden.
Diptera Gall midges fungivores morphology new species Palearctic region Europe Japan

Abstract

The taxonomy of Catochini, Strobliellini and Acoenoniini, three species-poor tribes of the subfamily Micromyinae, is reviewed on the basis of new material from Europe and Japan. In the Catochini, the genus Anocha Pritchard stat. rev. is revived from synonymy with Catocha Haliday and shown to include eight species, five of which are new: Anocha glabra sp. nov. (Sweden), A. grytsjoenensis sp. nov. (Sweden), A. japonica sp. nov. (Japan), A. moraviensis sp. nov. (Czech Republic), and A. vernalis sp. nov. (Sweden). Anocha minuta (Jaschhof), originally described in the genus Catarete Edwards, and Catocha brachycornis (Spungis & Jaschhof), previously classified in the genus Strobliella Kieffer, tribe Strobliellini, are new combinations. In the Acoenoniini, new species described are Acoenonia baltica sp. nov. (Sweden, Latvia) and A. ulleviensis sp. nov. (Sweden). The female of Groveriella Mamaev (tribe Strobliellini) is described for the first time. Keys are provided to the species of Anocha and Acoenonia Pritchard.

 

References

  1. Edwards, F.W. (1938) On the British Lestremiinae, with notes on exotic species.—3. (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 7, 102–108.

    Fedotova, Z.A. (2004) Supplement. 22. Fam. Cecidomyiidae – Gall Midges. In: Ler, P.A. (Ed.), Key to the Insects of the Far East of Russia in Six Volumes. Vol. VI. Two-winged Insects and Fleas. Part 3. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, pp. 565–629. [in Russian]

    Gagné, R.J. & Jaschhof, M. (2014) A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World. 3rd edition. Digital version 2. Available from: http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12454900/Gagne_2014_World_Cecidomyiidae_Catalog_3r
    d_Edition.pdf (accessed 15 December 2016)

    Jaschhof, M. (1998) Revision der “Lestremiinae” (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) der Holarktis. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 4, 1–552.

    Jaschhof, M. (1999) Revision der Gallmücken der Unterfamilie Lestremiinae in der Collection Strobl (mit einer Checkliste für Österreich) (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 86, 229–244.

    Jaschhof, M. (2016) Taxonomic revision of some Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) described by Zoya L. Berest. Zootaxa, 4097 (2), 255–262.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.2.7

    Jaschhof, M. & Jaschhof, C. (2009) The Wood Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 18, 1–333.

    Mamaev, B.M. (1978) New genus Groveriella Mamaev, gen. n. of the tribe Strobliellini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Cecidologia Indica, 12–13, 1–3.

    Mamaev, B.M. & Krivosheina, N.P. (1993) The Larvae of the Gall Midges (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Comparative morphology, biology, keys. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam and Brookfield, IX + 293 pp.

    Meyer, H. & Spungis, V. (1994) New species of gall midges of the genus Acoenonia Pritchard and Allaretella gen. nov. from North West Germany. (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Entomofauna, 38, 433–441.

    Pritchard, A.E. (1948) The North American gall midges of the tribes Catotrichini and Catochini (Diptera: Itonididae (Cecidomyiidae)). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 40 (1947), 662–671.

    Pritchard, A.E. (1960a) A new classification of the paedogenic gall midges formerly assigned to the subfamily Heteropezinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 53, 305–316.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/53.3.305

    Pritchard, A.E. (1960b) Forbesomyiini, a new tribe of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 62, 193–195.

    Skuhravá, M. (1997) Faunistic records from the Czech Republic – 67, Diptera: Cecidomyiidae. Klapalekiana, 33, 119–120.

    Spungis, V. & Jaschhof, M. (2000) Gall midges of subfamily Lestremiinae from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: checklist and description of new species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 50, 283–316.

    Tomasson, K., Tammaru, T. & Kurina, O. (2014) Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in Estonia: results of the Estonian Malaise Trap Project. Entomologica Fennica, 25, 142–156.