Monardia Kieffer 1895
- Dataset
- An update of Micromyinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) taxonomy, with descriptions of a new genus and 13 new species from Northern Europe
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Cecidomyiidae
- genus
- Monardia
description
The other new Xylopriona described here is a member of the species group around M. (X.) toxicodendri (Felt), a well circumscribed, monophyletic subset of Xylopriona (see Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: 212 f.). The toxicodendri group poses a twofold taxonomic problem, insofar as its relationship to other Xylopriona is obscure and the namegiving species, M. (X.) toxicodendri, is now known to be a complex of several discrete species, not a morphologically plastic, cosmopolitan species as previously believed (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: 213). Unpublished material at our disposal suggests that there are at least eight different toxicodendri - like species present in Sweden.