Porricondyla Rondani, 1840

Jaschhof, Mathias, 2024, New taxa and new records of Winnertziinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Germany, European Journal of Taxonomy 953, pp. 1-134 : 88

Genus Porricondyla Rondani, 1840

With 79 species extant in the world, including seven species named in the present paper, Porricondyla is the largest genus of Porricondylinae ( Gagné & Jaschhof 2021; de Almeida Garcia et al. 2023c). The bulk of species were described from the Palearctic region, especially Europe, and only a few from all other regions but the Afrotropics. The 39 species known from Europe were either reviewed or newly described in recent years ( Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013, 2020a). Even so, gaps in our knowledge of European Porricondyla persist. For instance, while Porricondyla colpodioides Mamaev, 1963 sensu Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2013) was previously discovered to be an unresolved aggregate of species ( Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2021a), further cases of hidden diversity were revealed only by the present project (see below). Also, there is no doubt that a number of new Porricondyla remain to be found, especially in those parts of Europe that have never been methodically surveyed for porricondylines. The German fauna sets a good example here. Prior to the present study there were German records of six Porricondyla , but now there is evidence of 31, including 13 new species. While seven of the new species are described below, the rest remain unnamed for the time being because the specimens at hand are insufficient for taxonomic description.