The Herniosina story continues in the Mediterranean: H.calabra sp. nov. from Calabria and H.erymantha Roháček, new female from the Peloponnese (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)

Jindřich Roháček

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1061.72235

The Herniosina story continues in the Mediterranean: H.calabra sp. nov. from Calabria and H.erymantha Roháček, new female from the Peloponnese (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)

Zookeys. 2021 Oct 11:1061:165-190. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1061.72235. eCollection 2021.

Author

Jindřich Roháček¹

Affiliation

¹ Silesian Museum, Nádražní okruh 31, CZ-746 01 Opava, Czech Republic Silesian Museum Opava Czech Republic.

Abstract

A study of recently acquired material of Herniosina Roháček, 1983 (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae) in the Mediterranean subregion revealed a new species, H.calabra sp. nov. (Italy: Calabria: Serre Calabresi Mts) and the first females of H.erymantha Roháček, 2016 (Greece: southern Peloponnese: Taygetos Mts). Herniosinacalabra sp. nov. (both sexes) and the female of H.erymantha are described and illustrated in detail including structures of terminalia, their relationships are discussed and new information on their biology (habitat association) is given. An update of a key to all know species of Herniosina species is presented.

Keywords: Biology; Europe; Herniosina Roháček; Limosininae; distribution; key; relationships; taxonomy; terminalia.

Jindřich Roháček.

Grants and funding

Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic by institutional financing of long-term conceptual development of research institution (the Silesian Museum, MK000100595).