Published December 30, 2023 | Version v1
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Planetella cucullata

  • 1. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, CZ- 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic & Silesian Museum, Nádražní okruh 31, CZ- 746 01 Opava, Czech Republic
  • 2. Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, FI- 20014 Turku, Finland
  • 3. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, CZ- 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • 4. Bítovská 1227 / 9, CZ- 140 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
  • 5. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, Denmark

Description

Planetella cucullata (Meigen, 1818)

Cecidomyia cucullata Meigen, 1818: 96. Type locality: Germany.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: sex?, Germany (coll. MNHN Paris, No. MNHN-ED-ED844), not studied.

Comments. The original description is very short and uninformative. The high-resolution photographs of the holotype are available at the web pages of MNHN Paris (https://science.mnhn.fr/taxon/species/planetella/cucullata). The holotype male (No. MNHN-ED-ED849) lacks antennae and wings, and the apical part of the abdomen is broken-off. Unrecognized species.

Notes

Published as part of Ševčík, Jan, Hippa, Heikki, Burdíková, Nikola, Sopuch, Kryštof, Skuhravá, Marcela & Bruun, Hans Henrik, 2023, Integrative taxonomy of Central European Planetella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) indicates high species diversity, intraspecific variation and low host specificity, pp. 413-450 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63 (2) on page 440, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2023.026, http://zenodo.org/record/10621390

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN
Material sample ID
MNHN-ED-ED844
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Cecidomyiidae
Genus
Planetella
Species
cucullata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Planetella cucullata (Meigen, 1818) sec. Ševčík, Hippa, Burdíková, Sopuch, Skuhravá & Bruun, 2023

References

  • MEIGEN J. W. 1818: Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vol. 1. F. W. Forstmann, Aachen, xxxvi + 333 pp., pls 1 - 11.