The Century Old Taxonomic Confusion Surrounding Wiedemannia zetterstedti Fallén and Related Species Is Resolved (Diptera: Empididae): Revision of the W. zetterstedti Group

Marija Ivković; Bradley J Sinclair; Emma Wahlberg

doi:10.3390/insects13050460

The Century Old Taxonomic Confusion Surrounding Wiedemannia zetterstedti Fallén and Related Species Is Resolved (Diptera: Empididae): Revision of the W. zetterstedti Group

Insects. 2022 May 13;13(5):460. doi: 10.3390/insects13050460.

Authors

Marija Ivković¹, Bradley J Sinclair², Emma Wahlberg³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Zoology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
² Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa Plant Laboratory-Entomology, CFIA, Ottawa, ON K1A OC6, Canada.
³ Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, 10026 Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

The Wiedemannia zetterstedti species group is revised after examination of all available type specimens and includes one new species (W. ulrichi Ivković & Sinclair sp. nov.) and four redescribed species (W. czernyi (Bezzi), W. longipennis (Mik) stat. rev., W. rufipes (Oldenberg) stat. rev. and W. zetterstedti (Fallén)). The following new synonyms are proposed: W. (Roederella) ouedorum Vaillant, 1952 = W. czernyi (Bezzi, 1905); Paramesia riparia Robert, 1836 = W. zetterstedti (Fallén, 1826). Lectotypes are designated for the following species/subspecies: Atalanta hirtiloba Speiser, Brachystoma escheri Zetterstedt, Clinocera czernyi Bezzi, Clinocera longipennis Mik, Paramesia riparia Robert, and Roederia czernyi rufipes Oldenberg. In addition to morphological evidence, molecular species concepts were investigated using a molecular phylogenetic divergence-based species delimitation (bPTP) and results confirmed the morphological conclusions. A key to species is presented and geographic distributions are mapped.

Keywords: Clinocerinae; Europe; aquatic dance flies; distribution; new species.

Grants and funding

This project received partial support from SYNTHESYS (http://www.synthesys.info/, accessed on 15 March 2022) which is financed by the European Community—Research lnfrastructure Action under the Seventh Framework Programme.