Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer

Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard, 2010, Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 2437, pp. 1-37 : 26-27

Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer

Dasyhelea turficola Kieffer, 1925a: 152 (male, Estonia); Kieffer 1929: 296 (female, Russia: Kaliningrad Oblast); Goetghebuer 1934a: 36 (male); Remm 1962: 124 (male, female; Estonia); Remm 1966: 60 ( Lithuania); Remm 1967: 17 ( Georgia); Remm 1969: 208 (key, male); Remm 1971: 200 ( Russia: Ussuri Land); Remm 1979: 51 ( Estonia); Szadziewski 1983: 66 ( Poland); Szadziewski 1985: 80 (male, female, syn.: = grenieri ; Algeria, Belgium, Poland, Canary Islands); Knoz 1997: 81 ( Czech Republic); Knoz 1998: 118 ( Czech Republic); Delécolle 1998 (1999): 137 ( Spain); Knoz et al. 2004: 84 ( Czech Republic); Dominiak & Szadziewski 2006: 7 ( Poland); Dominiak et al. 2007a: 261 ( Israel); Chandler et al. 2008: 87 (= flavoscutellata sensu Edwards 1926 , male, Great Britain, Ireland). Dasyhelea flavoscutellata: Edwards 1926: 402 (syn.: = egens ). Nec D. flavoscutellata ( Zetterstedt, 1850) . Dasyhelea grenieri Clastrier, 1966: 703 (male, female; Tenerife).

Dasyhelea malibui Yu, 2008: 165 (male, France). Syn. nov.

New country records. Morocco. Larache, south of Tanger, 9 April 1984, 2 males, leg. P. Sura. Sweden. Johannisfors, 18 July 2003, net, 1 male, leg. W. Giłka.

Distribution. Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast, Ussuri Land), Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Georgia, Spain (Canary Isl.), Morocco, Algeria, Israel.

Discussion. There are no major differences between D. turficola and the recently described D. malibui from France ( Yu 2008). The illustrations of D. malibui by Yu (2008) indicate that it is a new junior synonym of D. turficola , which is very common and well known in Europe.

This is an arboreal Palaearctic species. The records from Germany ( Havelka & Aguilar 1999) and from the Netherlands ( Knoz & Beuk 2002) are questionable because they did not provide locality data, and therefore, we have not included these countries in this section. Larvae of D. turficola live in fresh and saline wet soil and in peat-bogs.