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Rabdophaga salicina



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Original description
Original spelling: Tipula salicina
Latin diagnosis: "Tipula alis incumbentibus fuscis: margine tenuiore ciliatis; antennis moniliformibus villosis."

Schrank F
von Paula (1781). Enumeratio insectorum austriae indigenorum. Eberhard Klett & Franck, Augsburg. (p. 435).


Synonyms
Tipula salicina Schrank, 1781 (nec Bouché, 1834)
Cecidomyja salicina (Schrank, 1781) (sic!)
Cecidomyia salicina (Schrank, 1781)
Rabdophaga salicina (Schrank, 1781)



The name Tipula salicina was first coined by Schrank in 1781. However, Schrank did not mention it again in his 1803 work, but lists a "Tipula salicis". The description of both taxa (especially the small size and black color of the imago, and the orange/red color of the larva) suggests that his earlier Tipula salicina and his later Tipula salicis may be identical. The name salicina has later been used by Bouché (1833) (but in the genus Cecidomyja (sic!)) who virtually copied the original description of Schrank (1781), but (in error?) gave Meigen as the original author. Other authors, beginning with Winnertz (1853), have disregarded the earlier name salicina, obviously because it had been abandoned by Schrank himself, and used the later name salicis; in the recent revision by Gagné (2004) the name Tipula salicina Schrank, 1781 is not even listed. However, Bergenstamm and Löw (1876) regard the two taxa as separate species, stating that the galls induced in the Willow trees have different morphologies. To make things even more complicated, the epitheta salicis and salicina have also been used by several other authors for other species. However, Tipula salicina is definitely the most senior name of all of these homonyms.

In my opinion, Bouche´s Cecidomyja salicina can confidently be synonymized with Schrank´s Tipula salicis (see also Winnertz (1853) and Gagné (2004)). And because this Tipula salicis is very similar to Schrank´s Tipula salicina, I suggest that these names can be synonymized as well. However, before this matter is not investigated in detail, also incorporating data on the biology of the two taxa (e.g. salicina is said to fly in May, salicis in July, and the galls are said to be different) I provisionally list the two taxa as separate species.




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