Dasyhelea (Pseudoculicoides) turficola Kieffer, 1925

Strandberg, Jonas & Johanson, Kjell Arne, 2015, New records of Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911 from Sweden, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 131, pp. 1-22 : 7-8

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2015.131
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DCD171EC-6709-4495-85B3-6430E85C529E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3794717
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/85592A26-EF74-FF93-E0A5-F90EA793FDCB
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Dasyhelea (Pseudoculicoides) turficola Kieffer, 1925
status

Treatment

Dasyhelea (Pseudoculicoides) turficola Kieffer, 1925 View in CoL

Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer, 1925a: 15 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea grenieri Clastrier, 1966: 703 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea malibui Yu, 2008: 165 View in CoL .

Distribution

Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast, Ussuri Land), Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Spain (Iberian Peninsula, Canaries: Tenerife), Georgia, Morocco, Algeria, Israel ( Dominiak & Szadziewski 2010).

Biology

Dasyhelea turficola larvae are known to inhabit peat bogs and moist soil close to fresh and salt-water bodies. Adults of the species visit umbelliferous flowers (Dominiak 2012). Previously, D. turficola have been collected in Johannisfors ( Dominiak & Szadziewski 2010).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Dasyhelea