Strobliella Kieffer

Jaschhof, Mathias, 2017, Catochini, Strobliellini and Acoenoniini revisited: a taxonomic review of the small tribes of the Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Zootaxa 4250 (3), pp. 275-295 : 288

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4250.3.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FCB5489C-4358-45D6-9A11-D7DBC8260569

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6010550

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Strobliella Kieffer
status

 

Genus Strobliella Kieffer View in CoL

The only species included here, Strobliella intermedia , was described on the basis of a single male from Austria, which was last studied by Edwards (1938) and is now regarded as lost ( Jaschhof 1999). Three males at my disposal have genitalic structures exactly like those illustrated by Edwards (1938: fig. 7d) for S. intermedia , which leads me to regard them as conspecific. If my identification is correct, then the generic definition of Strobliella needs to be modified: male flagellomeres were previously thought to lack crenulate whorls, while those are present in the specimens studied here ( Fig. 8D View FIGURE 8 ). This discrepancy is discussed under the heading of S. intermedia . As the presence of crenulate whorls is a character rendering Strobliella even more similar to Groveriella , the distinctness of the two genera should be reconsidered once the morphology of female Strobliella is better known.

Edwards, F. W. (1938) On the British Lestremiinae, with notes on exotic species. - 3. (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 7, 102 - 108.

Jaschhof, M. (1999) Revision der Gallmucken der Unterfamilie Lestremiinae in der Collection Strobl (mit einer Checkliste fur Osterreich) (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Uereins in Innsbruck, 86, 229 - 244.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 8 A – E. Strobliella intermedia, males. A: Genitalia, ventral (specimen from Slovak Republic). B: Gonostylus, ventral (specimen from Sweden). C: Gonostylus, ventral (specimen from Sweden). D: Fourth flagellomere, lateral (specimen from Slovak Republic). E: Acropod of foreleg, lateral (specimen from Slovak Republic). Scales for A – D, 0.05 mm, for E, 0.025 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Cecidomyiidae

SubFamily

Micromyinae

Tribe

Strobliellini

Genus

Strobliella