Egle longirostris (Stein, 1907)

Michelsen, Verner, 2009, Revision of the willow catkin flies, genus Egle Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), in Europe and neighbouring areas, Zootaxa 2043 (1), pp. 1-76 : 18

The Egle longirostris species group

This species group equals the ‘ Egle longirostris superspecies’ proposed by Griffiths (2003) and includes the European E. myricariae Grossmann, 1998 and two northern Chinese species E. longirostris ( Stein, 1907) and E. anthomyioides (Fan in Jin et al., 1981). The peculiar structure of the postgonite with abundant setae and setulae on posterior lobe is a strong synapomorphy for the included species.

The Chinese E. anthomyioides (Fan) , described in Lasiomma , is apparently only known from the male holotype from southern Gansu ( Jin et al., 1981: 92, figs. 10–13; Wei et al. 1998: 660). The species can be identified by the absence of coarse setae apically on the male cerci. It is not treated further below.