Aprionus giganteus Berest 1991

• Main Author: Jaschhof, Mathias
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Cecidomyiidae; Aprionus; Aprionus giganteus; Giganteus; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6063510; https://zenodo.org/record/6063510

Aprionus giganteus Berest, 1991 —new junior synonym of Aprionus halteratus (Zetterstedt, 1852) I had earlier taken into consideration the synonymy proposed here (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009). I assume that Berest (1991 a) simply ignored the existence of A. halteratus when she introduced A. giganteus . Her differential diagnosis, which gives importance to the large body size and to the peculiar gonostylus of A. giganteus , makes reference to the A. flavidus (Winnertz, 1870) group of species, but not explicitly to A. halteratus , known at that time as A. flaviventris (Winnertz, 1870). A description of A. flaviventris was published in Edwards’s (1938 b) revision of British Lestremiinae, but the figure therein of the male genitalia of this species (fig. 17 h–i) is not really characteristic. An informative genital illustration of A. halteratus was presented only several years after the publication of A. giganteus (Jaschhof 1998). Berest’s (1991 a: fig. 2–3) and Jaschhof’s (1998: fig. 159 a–c) illustrations clearly depict one and the same species. : Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, Taxonomic revision of some Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) described by Zoya L. Berest, pp. 255-262 in Zootaxa 4097 (2) on page 256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/271068 : {"references": ["Jaschhof, M. & Jaschhof, C. (2009) The Wood Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 18, 1 - 333.", "Berest, Z. L. (1991 a) [New species of gall midges (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) from forest steppe and steppe regions of Ukrainian SSR.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 70, 102 - 107.", "Jaschhof, M. (1998) Revision der \" Lestremiinae \" (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) der Holarktis. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 4, 1 - 552."]}