Planetella brunnea ( Rübsaamen, 1892 )

Ševčík, Jan, Hippa, Heikki, Burdíková, Nikola, Sopuch, Kryštof, Skuhravá, Marcela & Bruun, Hans Henrik, 2023, Integrative taxonomy of Central European Planetella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) indicates high species diversity, intraspecific variation and low host specificity, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63 (2), pp. 413-450 : 439

Planetella brunnea ( Rübsaamen, 1892)

Hormomyia brunnea Rübsaamen, 1892: 396 . Type locality: Switzerland: Bergün.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, Switzerland: Bergün, H. Loew leg. (no other data, in coll. ZMHB Berlin, number 435), examined.

Comments. The original description contains 3 paragraphs, with figures of the wing, palpus and apical part of antenna. The antennae are reported as having 2 + 24 binodose flagellomeres, the apical one with a small appendage. The number 24 almost certainly refers to nodes, not flagellomeres. Male terminalia are figured by RȖBsAAMEN (1892) in Table XVII, figure 19 (not 14 as mentioned at page 396). The gonocoxite is relatively long and narrow, gonostylus short, pointed, about half as long as gonocoxite. Hypoproct relatively long, subrectangular, with a shallow posterior depression. The type specimen (male) has 12 binodose flagellomeres. The terminalia resemble those of P. attilai sp. nov. and P. galiciensis sp. nov. but we do not think that these three species are identical.