Bicellaria collini Tuomikoski

Barták, Miroslav & Kubík, Štěpán, 2013, Species of Bicellaria Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) of Europe, with descriptions of four new species, Zootaxa 3647 (2), pp. 251-278 : 256-257

Bicellaria collini Tuomikoski

( Figs 9–10 )

Bicellaria collini Tuomikoski, 1955: 70 .

Material examined (533, 9Ƥ). Austria: 13, Boden nr. Villach, edge of wood, 15.vii.1998; 53, Sulzgau, along river, 47°33'N, 13°11'E, 30.vii.1988; 83, 1Ƥ, Brennersee, nr. lake, 47°00'58''N, 11°30'18''E, 1320 m—all M.

Barták—(CULSP); 33, Tirol, Stafflach, 19–20.vi.1933, A.C.W. Wagner (NHMH). Italy: 53, 4Ƥ, Passo Rolle, alpine meadow, 46°13'N, 11°42'E, 1900 m, 8.viii.1988; 193, 1Ƥ, Passo Nigra , meadow + wood, 46°26'39''N, 11°35'18''E, 1700 m, 5.vii.2011; 63, 1Ƥ, Weisslahnbad, edge of forest, 46°28'40''N, 11°34'11''E, 1400 m, 4.vii.2011 —all M. Barták—(CULSP). Romania: 53, 2Ƥ, Mt. Bucegi, 16.vii.1970, M. Chvála (“ B. collini ” det. Chvála) (OUMNH).

Diagnosis. Bicellaria collini is a member of the B. austriaca complex of species as defined by Chvála (1991), for characters see under B. austriaca . All species of this complex may be easily identified according to the key using the male sex. Males have two rather long and almost equally shaped phallic hooks and broadly U-shaped hypandrial processes armed with rather long setae ( Figs 9–10 ).

Distribution. Mountains of Central and Southern Europe.

Remarks. This species was described (and hypandrium illustrated) on the basis of four males and four females from “Bayern, Allgäu, Burgegg” ( Germany).

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 16. Hypandrium (ventral view) and phallus with postgonites (lateral view). 9 – 10. Bicellaria collini Tuomikoski. 11 – 12. Bicellaria halterata Collin. 13 – 14. Bicellaria intermedia Lundbeck. 15 – 16. Bicellaria italica sp. nov. Scale bars = 0.10 mm.