Biting midges from Dominican amber : 3. Species of the tribes Culicoidini and Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

The following 10 new species of biting midges are described and illustrated from Dominican amber: Culicoides (Oecacta) antilleanus, C. (0.) brodzinskyi, C. (0.) ambericus, C. (0.) hispanicolus, C. mammalicolus, Brachypogon (B.) american us, B. (Isohelea) dominicanus, B. (Isohelea) prominuloides, Stilobezzia (S.) antilleana and S. (Acanthohelea) dominicana. Two other species, in Nannohelea and Stilobezzia, are described but not named. Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) wirthicola is a new name for Stilobezzia (A.) succinea Szadziewski from Miocene Saxonian amber, which is preoccupied by the extant Stilobezzia succinea Ingram and Macfie, from Argentina

The taxonomic status of two species of predaceous midges in the genera Bezzia and Palpomyia described by STÆGER (1839) in the genus Ceratopogon (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Palpomyiini)

Source at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2526980.Lectotypes are designated for the predaceous midges, Ceratopogon circumdatus Stæger, 1839, and Stæger, 1839 housed in the Copenhagen Zoological Museum, Denmark, and both species are redescribed and photographed. Ceratopogon circumdatus is removed from synonymy with Bezzia solstitialis (Winnertz, 1852) and recognized as a new synonym of Bezzia annulipes (Meigen, 1830). Ceratopogon binotatus Stæger, 1839, is removed from synonymy with Palpomyia lineata (Meigen, 1804) and recognized as the distinct species, Palpomyia binotata (Stæger, 1839

Two New Species of Biting Midges from France and Algeria (Diptera: ceratopogonidae)

Two new species of biting midges are described and illustrated from West Palaearctic. They are: Forcipomyia (F.) pyrenaicasp. nov. from France (Pyrenees-Orientales) and Monohelea mediterraneasp. nov. from France (Pyrenees-Orientales) and North Algeria (Sahara)

Descriptions of Brachypogon surma sp. n. from Finland and B. singularis (Santos Abreu, 1918) from the Canary Islands (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)

Source at http://www.entomologi.no/journals/nje/nje.htm. A new species Brachypogon (Isohelea) surma sp. n., with unique, leaf-like parameres, is described from Finnish Lapland based on males. Illustrations and COI sequences of this species are also provided. Females and males of Brachypogon (I.) singularis (Santos Abreu, 1918) from the Canary Islands are redescribed, a neotype is designated, and Ceratolophus rufigastris Santos Abreu, 1918 and Ceratolophus obscurus Santos Abreu, 1918 are proposed to be its new junior synonyms

Checklist of Macromycetes (Fungi) from the Wyskok village in Masurian Lakeland, NE Poland

From a small village Wyskok and its surroundings 324 species of Macromycetes are recorded in years 1998–2017. Among the species reported 38 are Polish red-listed mushrooms: rare (23), vulnerable (8), endangered (3), extinct (1) and of indetermined threat (3). Ganoderma lucidum and Polyporus umbellatus are partially protected by law in Poland. At present in the vicinity of the Oświn lake (Nature Reserve of the Seven Islands Lake) 325 species of Macromycetes are known to occur

A new genus of predatory midge in the \u3ci\u3eMonohelea\u3c/i\u3e complex from Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Monogedania, a new fossil monotypic genus of predatory midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) is described from Eocene Baltic amber and its position within the Monohelea complex is discussed. We dis­covered that the membranous portion of the aedeagus is extended in Monogedania clunipes (Loew), new combination, which suggests that the aedeagus of some extinct predatory midges can be penis-like. The Eocene Monohelea baltica Szadziewski, is transferred to the genus Schizohelea Kieffer, new combination, and, the previously unknown female is described, and key characters are included in color photographs of its entire habitus, head, distal hind tarsomeres and claws. The Monohelea complex is a world-wide group of predatory midges that includes six genera in the tribe Cerato­pogonini (Wirth and Grogan 1988). Their larvae are aquatic or semiaquatic in mainly small bodies of water and prey on aquatic larvae of a variety of insects. Adult females in this tribe are predators of mostly small nematocer­ous flies. This complex includes 232 extant species (Borkent and Dominiak 2020). Biting midges of this complex are rare in ambers worldwide (Szadziewski 2018). There are only two named species in the genus Monohelea Kieffer from Eocene Baltic amber (Szadziewski 1988). However, an enigmatic specimen of the genus Austrohelea Wirth and Grogan (sex unknown, no description or illustration) was reported by Schmidt et al. (2018) from Oligocene/Miocene amber of New Zealand; and a species from Eocene Australian (Anglesea) amber of an unde­termined genus (Peñalver et al. 2021) may belong to this complex. It is worth noting that in Upper Cretaceous Canadian and Siberian ambers there are species in the fossil genus Peronehelea Borkent (Borkent 1995), that resemble species in the Monohelea complex. Females of Peronehelea have enlarged hind legs and hind claws, how­ever, males in this genus have abdominal tergite 9 with distinct apicolateral processes which are absent or greatly reduced in males of the Monohelea complex. Females of Peronehelea have enlarged hind legs and hind claws, however, males in this genus have abdominal tergite 9 with distinct apicolateral processes which are absent or greatly reduced in males of the Monohelea complex (Szadziewski 1996). Two species from Eocene Baltic amber assigned to Monohelea by Szadziewski (1988) do not entirely resemble any of the genera in the revised Monohelea complex proposed by Wirth and Grogan (1988). Herein, we transfer these two extinct species from Monohelea, to Schizohelea Kieffer (Kieffer 1917), and, the new genus Monogedania, that we describe and illustrate

The Arthropod Fauna of Oak (Quercus spp., Fagaceae) Canopies in Norway

(1) We document the invertebrate fauna collected from 24 oak canopies in east and west Norway as a contribution to the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre’s ‘The Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative’. (2) A snap-shot inventory of the canopies was recorded by means of emitting a mist of natural pyrethrum into the canopies at night using a petrol-driven fogger and collecting the specimens in butterfly nets spread on the ground under the canopy. (3) Almost the entire catch of more than 6800 specimens was identified to 722 species. Out of 92 species new to the Norwegian fauna, 21 were new to science and, additionally, 15 were new to the Nordic fauna. Diptera alone constituted nearly half of the species represented, with 61 new records (18 new species). Additionally, 24 Hymenoptera (one new species), six oribatid mites (two new species) and one Thysanoptera were new to the Norwegian fauna. (4) Our study emphasizes the importance of the oak tree as a habitat both for a specific fauna and occasional visitors, and it demonstrates that the canopy fogging technique is an efficient way to find the ‘hidden fauna’ of Norwegian forests. The low number of red listed species found reflects how poor the Norwegian insect fauna is still studied. Moreover, the implication of the IUCN red list criteria for newly described or newly observed species is discussed.</jats:p

Biting midges from Dominican amber. III. Species of the tribes Culicoidini and Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

The following 10 new species of biting midges are described and illustrated from Dominican amber: Culicoides (Oecacta) antilleanus, C. (0.) brodzinskyi, C. (0.) ambericus, C. (0.) hispanicolus, C. mammalicolus, Brachypogon (B.) americanus, B. (Isohelea) dominicanus, B. (Isohelea) pronainuloides, Stilobezzia (S.) antilleana and S. (Acanthohelea) dominicana. Two other species, in Nannohelea and Stilobezzia, are described but not named. Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) wirthicola is a new name for Stilobezzia (A.) succinea Szadziewski from Miocene Saxonian amber, which is preoccupied by the extant Stilobezzia succinea Ingram and Macfie, from Argentina

Dasyhelea lutea Remm

Dasyhelea lutea Remm Dasyhelea lutea Remm, in Remm & Zhogolev, 1968: 834 (male, female, Azerbaijan, Ukraine: Crimea); Remm 1967: 22 (nomen nudum); Knoz & Tóthová 2008: 165 (Czech Republic). New country record. Algeria. Oasis 30 km North of Biskra, 27 April 1981, 3 males, leg. R. Szadziewski. Chegga n. Biskra, saline habitat, 2 May 1981, 14 males, leg. R. Szadziewski; saline habitat, 3 May 1981, 2 males, leg. R. Szadziewski. Distribution and biology. Czech Republic, Ukraine (Crimea), Azerbaijan, Algeria. Discussion. Adults were collected in saline habitats and steppes (present observations). This is a western Palaearctic meridional faunal element.Published as part of Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard, 2010, Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 2437 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19483

Dasyhelea lucida Remm

Dasyhelea lucida Remm Dasyhelea lucida Remm, in Remm & Zhogolev, 1968: 831 (male, female; Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine: Crimea); Remm 1967: 14 (Azerbaijan, Georgia); Remm 1979: 49 (Estonia); Szadziewski 1991: 106 (Poland); Bernotien&edot; 2002: 290 (Lithuania); Chandler et al. 2008: 84 (male, Great Britain). New country records. Algeria. Akbou, 12 May 1981, 1 male, leg. R. Szadziewski. Chegga n. Biskra, saline habitats, 2 May 1981, 2 males, leg. R. Szadziewski. Grarem n. Constantine, Apiaceae, 19 April 1981, 27 males, leg. R. Szadziewski. Kabylie, Souk El Tenine, Euphorbia sp., 14 April 1981, 5 males, leg. R. Szadziewski; 15 April 1981, 1 male, leg. R. Szadziewski. Ras Isly n. Sala Bey, 24-26 April 1981, 1 male, leg. R. Szadziewski; mountains, 24 April 1981, 1 male, leg. R. Szadziewski. Sétif, Apiaceae, 5 May 1981, 4 males, leg. R. Szadziewski. 30 km North of Biskra, oasis, 27 April 1981, 6 males, leg. R. Szadziewski. Pakistan. Peshawar, N.W. Frontier Prov., June 1959, H. Barnett, light trap, 1 male, (MHNN). Romania. Prislop Pass n. Bor&scedil;a, 47 ° 36.556 'N 24 ° 51.898 'E, 1433 m AMSL, 24 June 2007, net, 1 male, leg. P. Dominiak. Spain. Gran Canaria, Bco. Azuaze, 18 XI 1995, light trap, Baez, Nilsson & Malmqvist, 2 males. Puerte de Don Manuel n. Torre del Mar, 6 June 1984, 1 male, leg. P. Sura. Distribution. A Palaearctic arboreal species. Great Britain, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine (Crimea), Romania, Spain (Iberian Peninsula, Canary Isl.), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Algeria. Discussion. The record from Germany (Havelka & Aguilar 1999) is questionable because it did not provide locality data, and therefore, we have not included this country in this section.Published as part of Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard, 2010, Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 2437 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19483