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Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-23
Page range: 581–597
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Linnaemya bergstroemi n. sp. (Diptera: Tachinidae)—a new parasitoid fly from the Finnish Lapland

University of Eastern Finland, Department of Biology, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland.
Zoological Museum, Section of Biodiversity and Environmental Science, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
Diptera Species diversity CoI DNA barcodes Holarctic Finland Tachininae Linnaemyini Tachinini Ernestiini Ophina Bonellimyia

Abstract

A new tachinid species, Linnaemya bergstroemi n. sp., is described from the Finnish Lapland. The new species closely resembles the Nearctic species Linnaemya anthracina Thompson, but can be readily distinguished from it by the characters described in this paper. The taxonomic placement of the two species is discussed in the light of morphological and CoI sequence similarities with Linnaemya Robineau-Desvoidy species in the subgenera Ophina Robineau-Desvoidy and Bonellimyia Townsend. Known aspects of the new species’ biology and distribution are reviewed.