Dasyhelea flavoscutellata (Zetterstedt)

Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard, 2010, Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 2437, pp. 1-37 : 15-16

Dasyhelea flavoscutellata (Zetterstedt)

Ceratopogon flavoscutellatus Zetterstedt, 1850: 3648 (female, Norway).

Dasyhelea flavoscutellata: Remm 1962: 120 (male, female; Estonia); Remm 1967: 16 ( Azerbaijan, Georgia); Remm & Zhogolev 1968: 832 ( Ukraine: Crimea); Remm 1973a: 172 ( Mongolia); Remm 1973b: 355 ( Hungary); Havelka 1976a: 63 ( Germany); Havelka 1976b: 225 (male, female, syn.: = egens , = flavoscapula, = alonensis , = heraclae, = halobia ); Havelka 1978b: 177 ( Germany); Remm 1979: 51 ( Estonia); Szadziewski 1986: 51 (male, female; Poland); Delécolle et al. 1991: 256 ( France); Knoz et al. 2004: 84 ( Czech Republic); Tóthová et al. 2004a: 309 ( Czech Republic); Tóthová et al. 2004b: 146 ( Czech Republic); Tóthová & Knoz 2006: 106 ( Czech Republic).

New country record. Algeria. Chegga n. Biskra, 2 May 1981, 1 male, leg. R. Szadziewski. Distribution. Norway, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ukraine (Crimea), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Algeria.

Discussion. The first record of this species from Poland ( Szadziewski 1983) actually concerned D. arenivaga Macfie, 1943 . Synonyms proposed by earlier authors are placed among doubtful names. This species is rather rare in Europe, where it does not occur in saline habitats. Records of D. flavoscutellata from Denmark ( Petersen & Achim 2001) and Azores ( Delécolle 2002) are without locality data. This species probably represents an arboreal Palaearctic faunal element.