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Porricondyla albimana
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Subspecies
No subspecies are recognized.
Original description
Winnertz J (1853). Beitrag zu einer Monographie der Gallmücken.
Linnaea Entomologica 8, 154-322. (p. 296).
Type specimens: Winnertz gives no specifications about how many
specimens he had for study. The original description appears to be
based on a single female specimen. The whereabouts of this (and
possible other) specimen are not known; they may be in the Senckenberg
Museum in Frankfurt or the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where
parts of his collection are currently housed, or they may have been
destroyed during World War II when those specimens of Winnertz
deposited with the Museum Koenig in Bonn where destroyed. The type
locality is not specified. Since Winnertz used to collect galls and
larvae in the vicinity of Krefeld, where he lived, and record the
imagines that emerged from these stages, it is likely that the type
locality is Krefeld (Germany).
Synonyms
Cecidomyia albimana Winnertz, 1853 (p. 296)
Porricondyla albimana (Winnertz, 1853)
This is a dubious species described by Winnertz (1853) in the genus
Cecidomyia. Gagné (2004) lists it in his list of nomina dubia.
However, Meyer and Jaschhof (in Schumann et al. (1999)) list it as a
valid species in the genus Porricondyla. Winnertz (1853) based his
description obviously on a single female and to my knowledge, no other
specimen fitting the description has since been recorded. Winnertz
placed the new species in the subgenus Epidosis, which is currently
synonymized with Porricondyla. Thus, I follow Meyer and Jaschhof and
place this species in the genus Porricondyla. However, it has to be
stressed that this is only a tentative genus assignment and more
material of this species is required to place it more confidently.
Identification
Distribution
Unknown. The type specimen possibly was collected near Krefeld
(Germany).
Biology
Winnertz (1853) states that the
larva lives in rotting wood.
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