Wiedemannia erminea (Mik)

Wagner, Rüdiger, Plant, Adrian, Ivković, Marija & Gattolliat, Jean-Luc, 2022, New synonyms and new species of European aquatic dance flies (Diptera, Empididae), Zootaxa 5222 (5), pp. 427-442 : 435-438

Wiedemannia erminea (Mik)

( Fig. 8b–d )

Philolutra erminea Mik, 1887: 161 . Type locality: Carinthia, Tirolis (today Carinthia, Tyrol, Austria) .

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE ♁ by present designation ( Fig. 8b ) (slide mounted): label 1: 810 (or 819?); label 2: small rectangle: erminea det Mik (handwritten). Both labels are glued to the slide. The specimen is slide mounted in Canada balsam with additional red label, handwritten: Wiedemannia erminea Mik , Lectotypus, Wagner 2021 ( NHMW). PARALECTOTYPES: 1 ♁, label 1: 582, label 2: erminea / det. Mik; 1 ♀, label 1: 824, label 2: erminea / det. Mik; 1 ♀, label 1:818, label 2: erminea / det. Mik; all labels handwritten (all in NHMW).

Remarks. No type locality is stated on the labels on the pins. According to the text of the original description, the type series is from “ Carinthia, Tirolis ”. Lectotype and paralectotypes by present designation in order to fix the identity of the species.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Wiedemannia species. a, W. bilobata Oldenberg, slide with lectotype; b, W. erminea Mik, slide with lectotype; c, W. erminea, head with prothorax; d, W. erminea, abdomen with terminalia. (photos RW).