Tephritis angustipennis ( Loew, 1844 )

Korneyev, S. V., 2016, On The Taxonomic Revision Of The Genus Tephritis (Diptera, Tephritidae): New Synonymy, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (1), pp. 31-38 : 34-36

Tephritis angustipennis ( Loew, 1844) ( fig. 3 )

Trypeta angustipennis Loew, 1844: 382 ; Tephritis angustipennis: Loew, 1862: 113 ; Hendel, 1927: 182; Hering, 1944: 31; Merz, 1994: 62; Norrbom et al., 1999: 214; Greve, 1999: 6; Söderman et al., 2007: 6; Smit, 2010: 107; Evstigneev, 2016. — Trypeta segregata Frauenfeld, 1864: 147 ; Tephritis angustipennis f. segregata: Hering, 1944: 31 ; Norrbom et al., 1999: 214. — Tephritis ptarmicae Hering, 1935: 171, 1944: 31 ; Norrbom et al., 1999: 218, syn. n.

Material. Type. Lectotype ơ Trypeta angustipennis (here designated): [ Sweden?: Lappland]: “Tr. leontod. Zttst* Lapp.”, “sp. depict. /Germ. Zeitsch”, “ angusti / pennis Lw.” “coll. Loew”, “Typus” [red label], ( MNKB) (examined) ( fig. 3, 1–3 ). Lectotype ǫ Tephritis ptarmicae (here designated): Poland: “Crossen a[m]. O[der]. 24.VI.1934 Hering, E.” “ Paratype / Tephritis ptarmicae / det. M. Hering, 1935 ”, “ Paratypus ” [red label], “Synonym of Tephritis angustipennis (Loew) det. B. Merz 1991” ( MNKB) (examined) ( fig. 3 , 4 –5); paralectotypes: 1 ǫ: “Crossen a[m]. O[der]. 24.VI.1934 Hering, E.” “ Paratype Tephritis ptarmicae * det. M. Hering, 1935 ”, 3 ơ: “Crossen a[m]. O[der]. 5.VI.1934 Hering, E.” “P.T. Tephritis ptarmicae * det. M. Hering, 1935 ”, “Synonym of Tephritis angustipennis (Loew) det. B. Merz 1991” ( MNKB).

Non-type. [Country unknown:] (dark red paper rhomb), “coll. Loew ”, 1 ơ, 1 ǫ (on common pin) ( MNKB); Germany: NE Bavaria, Waidhaus, “X-28”, ex Achillea ptarmica , em. 14.08.1995, 6 ơ, 8 ǫ ( ZSSM) ;

“angustipennis /Zett., Loew / Hamburg / v. Winth.[em]”, “2531”, 1 specimen (abdomen and wings missing); Frankfurt am Oder [no data], 9 ơ, 12 ǫ (Riedel) (“ Tephritis angustipennis Lw. E. Hering det.’ 35”) ( MNKB); Kazakhstan: “Uralsk, Khanskaya Roshcha” [Oral], 14.05.1935, 1 ǫ (Fridolin); Atbasar, 27.07.1935, 1 ơ; 4.06.1936, 1 ơ (Rezvoy); Akmolinsk, 14.06.1932, 1 ơ; Akmolinsk, Kokshetau, Borovoye, 25.06.1932, 1 ǫ (Popov); W Akmolinsk, Kokshetau, meadow, Tersakkan river, near water, 13.06.1957, 5 ơ (Nartshuk) ( ZISP); Norway: “Norvegen. 7. 35580”, 1 ơ ( MNKB); Russia: Leningrad Region: Terioki (Zelenogorsk), 1 ǫ (Wagner); Shuvalovo, railroad to Finland, 26.09.1894, 1 ơ; 1 ǫ (Bianchi); 17.06.1897, 1 ơ (Jacobson); Rjabovo Irinowskaja railroad station, 24.09.1895, 1 ơ, 1 ǫ (Bianchi); Saint-Petersburg, Lebyazhye 23.06.1899, 1 ơ (Pleske); Petrograd, Smolenskoe cemetery, 28.06.1918, 1 ơ (Stackelberg); Ozerki, Petrograd county, 16.04.1920, 2 ơ (Stackelberg); Ozerki, 3.06.1920, 1 ǫ (Kosyanov); Kolomiagi, Petrograd county, 6.08.1921, 1 ơ (Stackelberg); Udelnaya station, 12.10.1922, 2ǫ (Fridolin); Luga county, Van-der-Vliet [Kalganovka], 11.06.1925, 1 ǫ; Jukki, 25.08.1931, 1 ơ; 16.08.1933, 1 ơ; Petrograd, Lesnoi, 30.09.1932, 1 ơ; 20.09.1935, 1 ǫ; vic. Luga, Tolmatschevo, 15.07.1932, 1 ơ; 15.07.1935, 1 ǫ; Luga, 19.08.1953, 1 ǫ; 25.08.1953, 1 ǫ (Stackelberg); Solnechnoe, 12.08.1954, 3 ǫ (M. Kandybina); Jashera nr. Luga, 19.06.1957, 1 ơ, 1 ǫ; 25.06.1957, 1 ǫ; 5.07.1957, 4 ơ, 3 ǫ; 18.07.1957, 1 ơ; 13.07.1958, 1 ơ, 1 ǫ; 26.08.1958, 1 ơ; 20.07.1959, 1 ơ; 29.06.1960, 1 ơ; (Stackelberg); Vyborg district, Bolshoi Berezovyi Is. 13.08.1979, 2 ơ, 1 ǫ; 22.08.1979, 1 ǫ; 4.08.1981, 1 ǫ (M. Kandybina); Orenburg Region: Ural, nr. Orenburg, Verkhniaya Dneprovka, 20.05.1932, 1 ǫ; 22.06.1932, 23.06.1932, 1 ơ; 31.07.1932, 1 ǫ; 1.07.1934, 1 ǫ; 15.07.1935, 1 ǫ (Zimin); Tyumen Region: Samarovo on Irtysh, 5.06.1925, 1 ơ (Fridolin); Kemerovo Region: W Kuznetsk Alatau Mountain Reserve, 113 NE Novokuznetsk, Chemodam Mt., western slope, foothill, 850 m Kedrovyi Brook, meadow, ex Achillea impatiens , coll. 4– 9.08.1995, em. 13.08.1995, 2 ơ, 9 ǫ (M. Shcherbakov) ( ZISP); “Sibiria / Schnabl”, “coll. H. Loew”, 2 ǫ ( MNKB); Sweden: “ Lund, VI. 59282”, 1 ơ; “Malmö, 8. 36458” 1 ơ, 1 ǫ ( MNKB); Switzerland: Basel, Riehen, 270 m, coll. 14.08.1989, 1 ơ, 1 ǫ; ex Achillea ptarmica , em. 16.08.1989, 1 ǫ; ex A. ptarmica , em. 22.08.1990, 1 ơ, 1 ǫ (Merz) ( ZISP); Ukraine: Kherson Region: Novotroitske, 16.05.1923, 1 ơ; “Vladimirovka” [?Novorosiyske], 19.05.1923, 1 ǫ (Dobzhansky); Burkuty, “ Burkutski plavni” [marshes], lower reaches of Dnipro, 13.06.1933, 7 ơ, 4 ǫ; Askania-Nova, 9.07.1933, 2 ơ, 3 ǫ; 21.07.1933, 6 ơ, 7 ǫ (Ter-Minassian); 20.05.1923, 1 ơ (Dobzhansky) ( ZISP).

D i s c u s s i o n. Originally, T. angustipennis was described as the species that Zetterstedt partly misidentified as T. leontodontis (“ Tephritis Leontodont. Zett. Ins. lapp. p. 745. No. 6. var. a. (ex. p.)”). He has seen only one couple sent to him by Zeller from Zetterstedt (“Ich besitze von dieser äusserst kenntlichen Art nur ein Pärchen, welches Herrn Zeller als Tephr. Leontodontis von Herrn Zetterstedt zugeschickt wurde.”). These two specimens as well as the other specimens of the “var. a” later reidentified in Zetterstedt’s collection as Tephritis angustipennis consist the syntype series. The male in Loew’s collection ( MNKB) with the wing depicted with the original description ( Loew, 1844: Tab. II, fig. 41) is one of the extant syntypes and the only in Loew’s collection; I therefore designate it in this paper, which is a part of taxonomic revision as a lectotype for the purpose of taxonomic stability.

T. ptarmicae Hering, 1935 was described from Oder floodplain near Crossen (now Crosno, Poland), based on a series of specimens reared from Achillea ptarmica L.; Hering indicated that it contains “ơ-,ǫ- Typus […] vom 19. und 29. August 1933 […]. Paratypen wie bei voriger art.” He did not explicitly indicate that the series includes a single namebearing name; all of them are therefore the syntypes, including the couple collected in 1933, now deposited in the BMNH, and the specimens from MNKB marked as paratypes and collected in 1934, but before 1935. An examined female specimen from this series is designated here as lectotype .

Descriptions and figures of T. angustipennis and T. ptarmica specimens, as well as study of available types show them to be conspecific. Hering (1935) did not compare them; furthermore, not mention T. angustipennis and probably omitted it from consideration. Tephritis ptarmica is not mentioned later in Hering’s (1944) key to species of Tephritis , which includes T. angustipennis instead. It quite probably means that Hering by that time had discovered their conspecificity. However, this synonymy has not been ever formally established, and I synonymyze both species names here.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Northern and Central Europe (Merz & Korneyev, 2004); Ukraine (first record); Asian Russia ( Korneyev & Ovchinnikova, 2004); Kazakhstan ( Richter, 1965); Japan ( Sueyoshi, 1998) and northern part of North America (Foote, Blanc & Norrbom, 1993). It is associated with low river banks, flood plains and lake shores, where the host plants grove.

H o s t p l a n t s. Achillea alpina var. discoidea Reg. ( Sueyoshi, 1998) ; A. impatiens (first record), A. ptarmica ( Merz, 1994) , A. salicifolia Bess. ( Evstigneev, 2016) .

Figures

Fig. 3. Tephritis angustipennis, lectotype ơ (1–3) and T. ptarmicae, lectotype ǫ (4–5): 1 — habitus; 2 — wing; 3 — labels; 4 — habitus; 5 — labels.

Fig. 1. Tephritis conyzifoliae: paratype ơ (1–2), holotype ơ of T. academica (3), holotype ơ of T. nartshukovi (4) and paratypes ơ, ǫ of T. epicrepis (5–6): 1 — habitus and labels; 2 — abdomen (dorsal view); 3–4 — wing (after Basov & Tolstoguzova, 1994, with changes); 5 — ơ, habitus; 6 — ǫ abdomen (dorsal view, and labels).

Fig. 2. Paratypes of Tephritis epicrepis (1–5) and T. conyzifoliae (6–10), genitalic structures: 1, 6 — aculeus, ventral; 2, 7 — eversible membrane, ventral; 3, 8 — aculeus tip, ventral; 4, 9 — spermathecae; 5, 10 — phallus.

Fig. 4. Trupanea kukunoria, lectotype ǫ: 1 — habitus; 2 — scutellum; 3 — wing; 4 — labels.