Dasyhelea arenivaga Macfie

Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard, 2010, Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 2437, pp. 1-37 : 5-6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.194838
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6492629
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/830EE845-0712-FFD8-1F90-233F6B09C234
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Dasyhelea arenivaga Macfie
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Treatment

Dasyhelea arenivaga Macfie View in CoL

Dasyhelea inconspicuosa View in CoL var. arenivaga Macfie, 1943: 151 (male, female; Egypt). Dasyhelea arenivaga: Szadziewski 1986: 55 View in CoL (male, Algeria, Poland); Delécolle 1998 (1999): 137 ( Spain); Tóthová et al. 2004a: 309 ( Czech Republic); Dominiak & Szadziewski 2006: 6 ( Poland); Dominiak et al. 2007a: 260 (male, Israel).

Dasyhelea flavoscutellata: Szadziewski 1983: 66 ( Poland) View in CoL ; Szadziewski 1998: 103 ( Switzerland). Nec D. flavoscutellata ( Zetterstedt, 1850) View in CoL .

New country records. Bulgaria. Pirin, Sandanski, 12 June 1984, 1 male, leg. W. Krzemiński. Romania. Lacul Rosu n. Piatra-Neamţ, 46°47.139'N 25°47.589'E, 971 m AMSL, 21 June 2007, net, 6 males, leg. R.

Szadziewski; 1 male, leg. P. Dominiak. Ukraine. Crimea, Razdolnoe, 45°49.779'N 33°29.142'E, 6 m BMSL, Tamarix sp., 18 May 2008, net, 1 male, leg. P. Dominiak.

Distribution. Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Romania, Ukraine (Crimea), Bulgaria, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Israel.

Discussion. This species is a western Meridional faunal element. Adults have been collected in meadows, peat-bogs, steppes, mountains and reared from wet saline soil (present observations).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Dasyhelea