Protearomyia rameli MacGowan, 2014

Macgowan, Iain & Reimann, André, 2021, A new species of Protearomyia (Diptera, Lonchaeidae) with a review of the genus in the Palearctic, Zootaxa 4966 (4), pp. 487-493 : 492

Protearomyia rameli MacGowan

Protearomyia rameli MacGowan, 2014 : Zootaxa, 3796 (2): 340, ( Protearomyia ). Type locality: Neo Petritsi. ( Greece). Holotype ♂ NMS-10000054. Male terminalia: Figs.7–12, p341 ( MacGowan 2014), Fig. 2B ( Reimann & Stuke 2016).

Distribution: Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Turkey.

Remarks: Recorded from Greece at altitudes between 750 and 1485 m, in a wine trap and a Malaise trap. The Spanish material was collected in a flight interception trap from Montseny, a mountainous area north east of Barcelona. The Turkish specimen was captured at 1480 m. The Swedish specimens were from nearer to sea level in a Malaise trap in an area of heath and pasture ( MacGowan 2014). The German records come from a variety of different habitats, mostly captured by Malaise traps in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests, oak forests, pastures and dry grasslands in altitudes up to 400 m. The majority of specimens were captured in April and July.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Protearomyia jonesi sp. nov. Male genitalia. 1. Epandrium and associated structures, lateral view. 2. Same, posterior view. 3. Phallus and parameres, lateral view. 5. Same, ventral view.