Aprionus onychophorus Berest 1991
Aprionus onychophorus Berest, 1991 —new junior synonym of Aprionus cardiophorus Mamaev, 1963 According to Berest (1991 a), the male of A. onychophorus differs from that of A. cardiophorus in the antennal sensilla, which are branched rather than simple, and in the ninth tergite, which is trapezoid ra...
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| Summary: | Aprionus onychophorus Berest, 1991 —new junior synonym of Aprionus cardiophorus Mamaev, 1963 According to Berest (1991 a), the male of A. onychophorus differs from that of A. cardiophorus in the antennal sensilla, which are branched rather than simple, and in the ninth tergite, which is trapezoid rather than heartshaped. Both these distinctions do not stand up to scrutiny. Antennal sensilla were shown to be branched also in A. cardiophorus (Spungis & Jaschhof 2000, Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009), and the ninth tergite of Aprionus (and other Micromyinae) is a flexible rather than rigid sclerite, so readily alters in outline when displaced in microscope preparations (Jaschhof 1998). In the holotype of A. cardiophorus , which I studied some time ago (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009), pressure of the cover slip caused the ninth tergite to slip posteriorly and take on the “heart-shape” that Mamaev (1963) described and accentuated in the species’ name. Since nothing remains that would make A. onychophorus distinct from A. cardiophorus , the two species are regarded here as identical. : 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 257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/271068 : {"references": ["Mamaev, B. M. (1963) [Gall midges of the USSR. 2. The tribe Micromyini (Diptera, Itonididae).] Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 42, 436 - 454.", "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.", "Spungis, V. & Jaschhof, M. (2000) Gall midges of subfamily Lestremiinae from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: checklist and description of new species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Beitrage zur Entomologie, 50, 283 - 316.", "Jaschhof, M. & Jaschhof, C. (2009) The Wood Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 18, 1 - 333.", "Jaschhof, M. (1998) Revision der \" Lestremiinae \" (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) der Holarktis. Studia dipterologica Supplement, 4, 1 - 552."]} |
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