Dolichopus picipes Meigen, 1824

Kahanpää, Jere, 2008, Nematode-induced demasculinisation of Dolichopus males (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), Zootaxa 1689, pp. 51-62 : 59

Dolichopus picipes Meigen, 1824

Dolichopus picipes Meigen, 1824: 76

Dolichopus consimilis Wahlberg, 1850: 217 syn. nov.

Demasculinised males examined: Coll. JK — Finland, 1ɗ Ks: Kuusamo, Reposuo (73353:35980), 7.vii.2006, J. Kahanpää, id jka06-02620; 1ɗ Ok: Sotkamo, Lauttopuro (71183:35433), 5.vii.2006, J. Kahanpää, id jka06-01180; 1ɗ Ok: Paltamo, Kylmänpuro (71387:35505), 5.vii.2006, J. Kahanpää, id jka06- 01205; 1ɗ Obb: Tervola, Hirviaapa (73475:34184), 8.vii.2006, J. Kahanpää, id jka06-01354. In alcohol. 1ɗ Obb: Tervola, Sompujärvi NE2 (7320408:3414913), 28.vi.–2.viii.2004, J. Salmela & J. Ilmonen.

According to Wahlberg (1850) Dolichopus consimilis is closely related to D. picipes , from which it differs by a broader face, smaller hypopygium and small, more or less uniformly dark cerci. It has been recorded from France, Norway and Sweden ( Negrobov 1991, Pollet 2006). Ringdahl (1949) classified D. consimilis as a probable gynandromorphic form of D. picipes , but Stackelberg (1930), Parent (1938), Negrobov (1991) and Yang et al. (2006) have treated D. consimilis as a valid species. Four of the five males examined were parasitised; the fifth has an exit scar in the pleural membrane. D. consimilis Wahlberg is here synonymised with D. picipes Meigen.