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Issue: Vol. 5514 No. 2: 26 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.2.5
Page range: 169-187
Abstract views: 168
PDF downloaded: 9

Predatory midges of the genus Schizohelea Kieffer, 1917 in Europe and North Africa (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology; Faculty of Biology; University of Gdańsk; Wita Stwosza 59; 80-308 Gdańsk; Poland
Tromsø University Museum; UiT – The Arctic University of Norway; NO-9037 Tromsø; Norway
Division of Zoology; Faculty of Science; HR-10000 Zagreb; Croatia
Chair of Botany; Faculty of Biology; Technische Universität Dresden; 01062 Dresden; Germany
Chair of Botany; Faculty of Biology; Technische Universität Dresden; 01062 Dresden; Germany; Institut für Ökologie; Evolution und Diversität; Goethe-Universität Frankfurt; 60438 Frankfurt am Main; Germany; Abteilung Botanik und molekulare Evolutionsforschung; Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung; 60325 Frankfurt am Main; Germany
Department of Environment and Biodiversity; Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg; Hellbrunnerstr. 34; 5020 Salzburg; Austria
Diptera Biting midges Ceratopogonini new species holarctic algeria france tunisia

Abstract

Five species of the Holarctic genus Schizohelea occurring in Europe and North Africa are reviewed, diagnosed and illustrated. These are S. leucopeza (Meigen, 1804), S. incerta (Clastrier, 1963), S. algeriana Szadziewski, Dominiak, Rumišek et Rupp, sp. nov., S. clastrieri Szadziewski, Dominiak, Rumišek et Rupp, sp. nov. and S. withersi Szadziewski, Dominiak, Rumišek et Rupp, sp. nov. The male of North African S. incerta is described for the first time. Schizohelea algeriana and S. clastrieri are described from northern Algeria, and S. withersi from southern France. An identification key to all species of the genus is provided.

 

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