Dicerura divaricata Fedotova, 2004

Jaschhof, Mathias & Spungis, Voldemars, 2018, Towards reliable identification of male Dicerura: descriptions of three new and seven poorly known species in the Palearctic region (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae, Porricondylinae), Zootaxa 4422 (1), pp. 85-103 : 100

Dicerura divaricata Fedotova, 2004

This species is known from a single male collected in the Far East of Russia. From Fedotova’s (2004) illustrations it is obvious that the genitalia of this specimen are strongly distorted, so that details of their structure remain obscure. There is no doubt that the gonostylus has a distinct basomedial lobe and the ejaculatory apodeme a furcate apex, but those characters do not distinguish D. divaricata from many other Dicerura . Fedotova’s (2004: fig. 320.3) illustration of the tegmen of D. divaricata suggests that this species might belong to the iridis group. One is left with the hope that fresh specimens will be found that can be assigned to this species and serve to describe its specific traits.