Planetella tuberifica (Rübsaamen, 1899)

Ševčík, Jan, Hippa, Heikki, Burdíková, Nikola, Sopuch, Kryštof, Skuhravá, Marcela & Bruun, Hans Henrik, 2023, Integrative taxonomy of Central European Planetella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) indicates high species diversity, intraspecific variation and low host specificity, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63 (2), pp. 413-450 : 444-445

Planetella tuberifica (Rübsaamen, 1899)

Hormomyia tuberifica Rübsaamen, 1899a: 546 , fig.7. Type locality: Germany, Berlin. Type material. SYNTYPEs: 3 JJ 4 ♀♀ 3 exuviae, Berlin, 24.iii.– 12.v.1896, Carex stricta (vial No. 681, coll. ZMHB Berlin), examined.

Comments. In RȖBsAAMEN (1899a), only habitus figure of female is included, showing striped scutum produced over the head, and striped abdomen. The number of flagellomeres is indistinct from the figure.

In the next work by RȖBsAAMEN (1899b), only text without figures is included. Female is reported as having the abdomen reddish with posterior margin of each segment with glossy black stripes in about one third, ‘lamelles’ of short ovipositor blackish, scutum honey brown, produced over the head, with three stripes. Head and antennae blackish. Male of similar colour as female but abdomen lighter.Antennae similar to those of P. arenariae (described in the same paper), described in detail but the number of flagellomeres is not stated.Aedeagus reported as very long, longer than gonocoxites. Larvae in galls at base of stems and leaf sheaths of Carex elata .

Male terminalia studied (but not cleared in KOH) by the first author of this paper. The three males included represent two different species, one of them with terminalia different from any species treated here, the second similar to (or identical with) P. tumorifica , see below.