Paneliusia Jaschhof, 2013

Jaschhof, Mathias, 2024, New taxa and new records of Winnertziinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Germany, European Journal of Taxonomy 953, pp. 1-134 : 84

Genus Paneliusia Jaschhof, 2013

This genus was recently introduced to accommodate three species with generally similar male terminalia structures, of which two were misplaced in Porricondyla and one was unnamed ( Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013). To present knowledge, the geographical distribution of Paneliusia is essentially Palearctic, with only a single record published from Pennsylvania, eastern United States ( Plakidas 2019). Plakidas’s (2019) description leaves no doubt that his species is not P. aurantiaca (Panelius, 1965) , as he believed, but is either P. albimanoides Jaschhof, 2013 or a closely related, unnamed species. Arguments in support of my view are the toothless claws (fig. 129) and the peculiar shape of the gonostylus (fig. 131) depicted by Plakidas (2019). There is indication that P. albimanoides as described by Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2013) is an aggregate species in need of further investigation ( Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2021b). All three species of Paneliusia are present in Germany, with P. albimanoides recorded here for the first time.