Dasyhelea dampfi Kieffer

Dasyhelea dampfi Kieffer, 1925 a [March 1925]: 150 (female, Estonia); Goetghebuer 1934a: 32 (female); Remm 1962: 127 (male, syn.: = turfacea, =? estonica, Estonia); Remm 1966: 60 (Lithuania); Remm 1969: 208 (male); Remm 1979: 50 (syn.: = turfacea, Estonia); Dominiak & Szadziewski 2006: 5 (Poland); Tóthová & Knoz 2006: 106 (Czech Republic).

Dasyhelea turfacea Kieffer, 1925a: 151 (male, female; Estonia); Goetghebuer 1934a: 36 (male, female). Dasyhelea estonica Kieffer, 1925 d [Dec. 1925]: 409 (male, Estonia). Syn. nov.

Distribution. Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic.

Discussion. The type material of D. estonica collected from peat-bogs in Estonia, is most likely lost. Kieffer’s original description refers to it as small, black and shiny with brown legs and halteres, all of which are typical of specimens of D. dampfi . Therefore we concur with the suggestion (with a question mark) by Remm (1962) that D. estonica is a junior synonym of D. dampfi . The suggested synonymy was ignored in subsequent papers where D. estonica was treated as a valid species (Remm 1979, 1988; Borkent & Wirth 1997). This is a boreal European species that occurs only in peat-bogs. 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. Reports from Hungary (Zilahi-Sebess 1940), Spain (Sahuquillo Herráiz & Gil Collado 1982) and Russia (Krivosheina 1957) based on females are also uncertain.