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Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer

Description

Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer

Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer, 1925a: 152 (Estonia).

Material examined. Lebanon. Tyre, N 33° 15.535 E 35°12.726, 06.V.2012, beach, net, 2 males, leg. A. Alwin & P. Dominiak (LU & UG). Tyre, Al-Bass ruins, N 33° 16.232 E 35°12.706, 19 m asl, 12.V.2012, net, 2 males, leg. P. Dominiak (UG).

Distribution. Dasyhelea turficola is widely distributed in the Palaearctic region (Dominiak & Szadziewski 2010), but from the Near East previously known only from Israel (Dominiak et al. 2007). New species for the Lebanese fauna.

Notes

Published as part of Dominiak, Patrycja & Alwin, Alicja, 2013, Five new species and new records of biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer from the Near East (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 133-144 in Zootaxa 3683 (2) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/219725

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Dasyhelea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kieffer
Species
turficola
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Kieffer, J. J. (1925 a) Chironomiden der Hochmoore Nordeuropas und des ostlichen Mitteleuropas. Beitrage zur Kunde Estlands, 10, 145 - 163.
  • Dominiak, P. & Szadziewski, R. (2010) Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa, 2437, 1 - 37.
  • Dominiak, P., Braverman, Y. & Szadziewski, R. (2007) New records of biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea from Israel, with notes on synonymy in the genera Culicoides and Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology, 76, 257 - 265.