Monardia Kieffer, 1895

Jaschhof, Mathias & Jaschhof, Catrin, 2020, An update of Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) taxonomy, with descriptions of a new genus and 13 new species from Northern Europe, Zootaxa 4750 (3), pp. 349-369 : 357

Monardia Kieffer, 1895 s. str.

Monardia sensu stricto gathers species with vestigial empodia and mostly leaf-shaped, uniporous translucent sensilla on male flagellomeres ( Fig. 14 ). Some of the species included here have hair-shaped, bifurcate sensilla, a fact indicating that this is probably not a natural group ( Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: 196 ff.). Of two unnamed species in our material, one is described below, while the other needs to be underpinned by more specimens before it can be described.

Figures

FIGURES 11–14. Male morphology of Ladopyris baltica (11–12) and Monardia (M.) lapponica (13–14), holotypes. 11: Fourth flagellomere, lateral. 12: Genitalia, ventral. 13: Genitalia, ventral. 14: Fourth flagellomere, lateral. Scales 0.05 mm. Arrows refer to characters described in the diagnoses.