Dasyhelea bifida Zilahi-Sebess

Dasyhelea fascigera Kieffer var. bifida, Zilahi-Sebess 1936a: 44 (male, Hungary); Zilahi-Sebess 1940: 48 (male, Hungary).

Dasyhelea bifida: Remm 1967: 21 (male, Azerbaijan); Damian-Georgescu 1975: 97 (male, Romania); Navai 1994: 364 (male, Afghanistan); Yu et al. 2006: 237 (male, China); Dominiak et al. 2007a: 260 (male, Israel).

New country records. Poland. Krościenko on the river Dunajec, 12 August 1988, at light, 1 male, leg. C. Majkowska. Inowrocław Mątwy, Apiaceae, 19 August 2009, net, 4 males, leg. P. Dominiak. Ukraine. Crimea, Near Armians’k, at the freshwater lake, 46°10.897'N 33°31.924'E, 1 m BMSL, 25 May 2008, net, 6 males, leg. P. Dominiak.

Distribution. An arboreal Palaearctic faunal element reported from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine (Crimea), Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Israel, China.

Discussion. In their taxonomic revision of the fasciigera species group, Borkent & Forster (1986) proposed to treat Dasyhelea bifida as a senior synonym of D. furva Remm, 1967 . Our examination of new materials from Europe revealed that they both represent valid, distinct species (see D. furva below). The specimens previously recorded from Poland (Szadziewski 1991) actually belong to D. furva . The records from Moldova, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Siberia (Remm 1988) and Germany (Havelka & Aguilar 1999) are questionable because they did not provide locality data, and therefore, we have not included these countries in this section.