Review of the European Greenomyia Brunetti (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) with new descriptions of females

By

Kurina, Olavi
Hedmark, Kjell
Karström, Mats
Kjaerandsen, Jostein

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

77

Pages

31-50

Subjects

Mycetophilidae, Greenomyia, Neoclastobasis, fungus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.77.936

 

Abstract

The females of the four continental Greenomyia Brunetti species in Europe are associated with the males, diagnosed and keyed, providing the first association and description of the females of G. baikalica Zaitzev, 1994 and G. stackelbergi Zaitzev, 1982. Colour photographs of their habitus and line drawings of their female terminalia are provided. Greenomyia mongolica Laštovka & Matile, 1974 is found to be a senior synonym of Greenomyia theresae Matile, 2002. syn. n. The diagnostic characters used to distinguish between Greenomyia and Neoclastobasis Ostroverkhova in keys did not hold up to a closer scrutiny and leave the status of Neoclastobasis as separate genus questionable.