Dasyhelea corinneae Gosseries

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 : 10

Dasyhelea corinneae Gosseries

Ceratopogon scutellatus Meigen, 1830: 262 (female, Europe).

Dasyhelea scutellata: Kieffer 1919: 50 (combination, in key); Edwards 1926: 402 (male, Great Britain); Goetghebuer 1934a: 28 (male); Zilahi-Zebess 1940: 52 (male, female; Hungary); Remm 1967: 18 ( Russia: North Ossetia); Remm 1971: 200 (male, Russia: Ussuri Land); Remm 1973b: 355 ( Hungary); Waugh & Wirth 1976: 236 (male, female; USA).

Dasyhelea corinneae Gosseries, 1991: 42 (new name for C. scutellatus Meigen, 1830 ); Chandler 1998: 55 (syn.: = scutellata ); Dominiak & Szadziewski 2006: 6 (syn.: = scutellatus , Poland).

Dasyhelea chonetus Yu & Zou in Yu et al. 2006: 279 (male, China). Syn. nov.

New country records. North Korea. Mjohjang-san, 22 June 1981, 2 males, leg. W. Krzemiński. Sweden. Antjärn, 10 August 2003, net, 1 male, leg. W. Giłka. Ukraine. Brusnicya n. Chernivtsi, 48°21.449'N 25°38.532'E, 170 m AMSL, 28 May 2008, net, 1 male, 1 female, leg. P. Dominiak. Near Khotyn, at river Dniester, 48°32.701'N 26°28.852'E, 119 m AMSL, 27 May 2008, net, 9 males, leg. P. Dominiak.

Distribution. Great Britain, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia (North Ossetia, Ussuri Land), China, North Korea, USA.

Discussion. The original drawings of the male genitalia of Dasyhelea chonetus in Yu et al. (2006) indicate it is a junior synonym of D. corinneae . This widespread Holarctic species, is rarely collected and was long referred as D. scutellata from this region. The records from Belgium ( Gosseries 1991) and Denmark ( Petersen & Achim 2001) are questionable because they did not provide locality data, and therefore, we have not included these countries in this section. A record from Spain ( Sahuquillo Herráiz & Gil Collado 1982) based on a female is also doubtful.