A new species of Hellichiella (Diptera: Simuliidae) with 11-segmented antenna from the Eocene

Authors

  • Evgeny E. Perkovsky Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Bogdana Khmel’nitskogo 15, Kiev, 01601 Ukraine. E-mail: perkovsk@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7959-4379
  • Ekaterina B. Sukhomlin Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University, Voli Ave. 13, Lutsk, 43025 Ukraine. E-mail: suhomlinkb@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1206-5373

Keywords:

Diptera, Simuliidae, blackflies, amber, fossils, Eocene, paleontology, new species, new synonymy

Abstract

We synonymize Hellichiella pugach Perkovsky & Sukhomlin, 2015 with Greniera yankovskyi Perkovsky & Sukhomlin, 2015 (Stegopterniini) based on the holotype and female paratype of H. pugach (Stegopterniini). Hellichiella polessica n. sp. differs from Hellichiella oligocenica (Rubtsov, 1936) (the only species of Hellichiella known in Baltic amber) by its smaller body, narrower head, 11-segmented antenna, greater number of upper corneal facets, cylindrical metabasitarsus, and narrowed gonostylus. Our findings show three species of blackflies in Rovno amber: Greniera ukrainica Perkovsky & Sukhomlin, 2015 and G. yankovskyi Perkovsky & Sukhomlin, 2015 (Stegopterniini) and Hellichiella polessica n. sp. (Nevermanniini).

 

Cite as: Perkovsky, E.E. & Sukhomlin, E.B. 2016. A new species of Hellichiella (Diptera: Simuliidae) with 11-segmented antenna from the Eocene. Israel Journal of Entomology 46: 79–86.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.59292

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Wing of a Hellichiella polessica paratype.

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2016-08-03

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Vol. 46 (2016)

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