Paramyia hungarica Papp, 1993

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Paramyia hungarica Papp, 1993

Paramyia hungarica Papp, 1993 has only been previously recorded from Hungary ( Papp, 1993, 2001). Based on its original description, it was difficult to find any clear distinctions between P. hungarica and the North American species. We were not able to obtain a specimen of this species to verify its morphology. We did however acquire one leg from the Hungarian Natural History Museum, which was sequenced. The sequence obtained through Next- Generation sequencing was very short (137 bp), as only the fragment 6 amplified (see Prosser et al. 2016). Luckily, that fragment contained some unique substitutions that made it clearly unique and different from the North American species ( Fig. 31 ). Its distinct molecular barcode from the North American species leads us to conclude that it is unlikely to be present in North America.

As mentioned in our P. nitens redescription, we believe that Papp (2001) may have mistakenly used specimens of P. pseudonitens in his re-description of P. nitens . This makes using the key provided in Papp (2001) difficult as it is not actually corresponding to P. nitens but P. pseudonitens . Currently, the surest way to differentiate P. hungarica from P. nitens is through their geographic distribution and molecular sequence; P. hungarica is restricted to the Palearctic and even a short fragment of its molecular barcode is divergent from P. nitens .

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FIGURE 31. Maximum likelihood tree of North American species of Paramyia with an outgroup of Neophyllomyza using pdistance (order of information: Species| sequence length|BIN|GenBank Accesion).