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039087BDFC08F36D2AA32CEF0A3560E4.text	039087BDFC08F36D2AA32CEF0A3560E4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula Felt 1908	<div><p>Dentifibula Felt</p> <p>Dentifibula Felt 1908: 385, 389 (type species, Cecidomyia viburni Felt, original designation).</p> <p>Muirodiplosis Grover 1965: 111 (type species, spinosa Grover (original designation); Gagné 1973a: 500 (junior synonym of Dentifibula).</p> <p>Diagnosis. Dentifibula belongs to the Lestodiplosini whose larvae are predaceous on various insects and mites (Gagné &amp; Jaschhof 2021). A key to genera can be found in Gagné (2018). Only two characters separate adults of this genus from the more speciose and diverse Lestodiplosis. The first difference is the prominent conical extension in Dentifibula of the gonocoxites beyond the insertion of the gonostylus (Figs 6–7); the second is the presence of only two circumfila instead of three on each of the male flagellomeres (Fig. 3). This second character is not exclusive because an undescribed species of Dentifibula from Australia is known with three circumfila on each flagellomere (Kolesik &amp; De Faveri 2014) and a few Lestodiplosis spp, are known with two or an incomplete third (Harris 1968). The single distinctive character of the gonocoxite may seem a minor difference on which to base a genus but there is no reason to believe it arose more than once. The only two well-known species, D. viburni and Dentifibula nigroapicalis Kolesik (in Kolesik &amp; De Faveri 2014), show distinctive dark spots on the wing and light- and dark-banded legs, so possibly all the other species do also. This has not been noted in the other species because the dark scales responsible for the marks are lost in slide preparations. Felt (1907, 1908, 1918) did not mention maculations on D. viburni because he probably saw his specimens only on slides after preparation by an assistant. Felt incorrectly described the palpi of his three manifestations of D. viburni (and later of his two Sri Lankan species) as having three segments. He used this to characterize his genus, but the palpi of his Dentifibula species are actually four-segmented. The first palpal segment in these species is short and usually partially hidden, but always has a telltale seta or setae, marking it as a true segment and not the palpiger (Fig. 5).</p> <p>Larvae are known of only two species, D. viburni and D. nigroapicalis. Those of D. viburni could pass for any Lestodiplosis with their robust head, very long antennae, ventral pseudopods and dorsal anus. The arrangement of the papillae is particularly diagnostic for the lateral and sternal papillae (Figs 12–13). Kolesik &amp; De Faveri (2014), while showing in photographs and drawings what otherwise resembles a Dentifibula / Lestodiplosis, describe their larva as having a ventral anus and lacking pseudopods. Kolesik (pers. comm., V-28-2022) wrote that the single slide-mounted larval specimen in his series of D. nigroapicalis is a tiny, poor specimen that does not allow certainty about those characters. Kolesik &amp; De Faveri (2014) also noted the lack of a sternal spatula on their species, but the larva is so small it might be a second instar that would normally lack that organ.</p> <p>We note here an exclusive larval feature of both Dentifibula and Lestodiplosis: Two sternal papillae are evident on the prothorax and four on the eighth abdominal segment but are missing on the remaining segments (Fig. 12). To account for the missing sternal papillae, Möhn (1955) suggested that sternal papillae of Lestodiplosis were transformed into pseudopods in the remaining thoracic and abdominal segments. This might account for the pair of pseudopods on the meso- and metathorax, but does not explain how in the first through seventh abdominal segments there are only three pseudopods in place of the erstwhile four sternal papillae. If Möhn’s hypothesis is correct, the middle of three abdominal pseudopods, placed along the horizontal line where the sternal papillae would be, might have subsumed two of the erstwhile four sternal papillae.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC08F36D2AA32CEF0A3560E4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC08F36A2AA32A330C626624.text	039087BDFC08F36A2AA32A330C626624.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula viburni Felt	<div><p>Dentifibula viburni Felt</p> <p>Figs 1–9, 12–15.</p> <p>Contarinia viburni Felt 1907: 36; Felt 1908: 389 (Dentifibula); Felt 1918: 130 (redescription).</p> <p>Contarinia caryae Felt 1907: 36; Felt 1908: 389 (Dentifibula); Felt 1918: 130 (redescription); Gagné 1973b: 869 (junior synonym of D. viburni).</p> <p>Dentifibula cocci Felt 1908 b: 389; Felt 1918: 130 (redescription); Gagné 1973b: 869 (junior synonym of D. viburni).</p> <p>Description. Adult. Color in life (Fig. 2): Yellow with black antennae, black wing marks at tip of wing, center of wing immediately posterior to R5, at junction of M 4 and CuA and posterior to base of Cu, and black bands on legs.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 5): Eyes large, restricting postocciput, all facets closely contiguous, circular to hexagonoid. Occipital protuberance at least twice as long as wide, not reaching eye height because of large extent of eyes. Antenna: scape with 2-3 ventral and 1 lateral setae; pedicel with several lateral and medial setae; with 12 flagellomeres, first and second connate; male flagellomeres (Fig. 3) binodal, both nodes spheroid, each with one circumfilum, internode and neck nearly as long as node, circumfilar loops comparable in length, loops reaching next distal node; female flagellomeres (Fig. 4) cylindrical, circumfila closely appressed except for bowed loops at nodal apex, node and neck of third flagellomere subequal in length. Frons with 4–6 setae per side, without scales. Labella hemispheroid with several uniform, slightly thickened setae. Palpus 4-segmented, first segment short-spheroid, nearly hidden, remaining segments ovoid, each segment with several scattered, pointed setae of uniform length, without scales.</p> <p>Thorax: Wing (Fig. 2): length: male, 1.1–1.3 mm (n = 10); female, 1.3–1.5 mm (n = 10); R 5 slightly curved, joining C at wing apex; Rs evanescent; M 4 and CuA forming a fork. Scutum with 4 longitudinal groups of sparse setae mixed with scales. Scutellum with 3–4 setae on each side. Anepimeron with 3-4 setae, remaining pleura bare. Legs: claws untoothed, strongly curved beyond midlength; empodia nearly as long as claws; pulvilli diminutive.</p> <p>Male abdomen. Tergites first through seventh with single row of posterior setae, a few lateral setae, anterior pair of trichoid sensilla and elsewhere with widely scattered scales; eighth tergite membranous, with no posterior setae and pair of anterior trichoid sensilla. Sternites second through sixth with single row of sparse posterior setae, several lateral and medial setae and scales near midlength, and anterior pair of closely approximated trichoid sensilla; seventh sternite similar except vestiture at midlength closely approaching posterior row of setae; eighth sternite with 2 well-separated trichoid sensilla, with sparse posterior row of long setae and a few shorter setae and scales. Terminalia (Figs 6–8): cerci broadly rounded apically, each with three setae along distal edge; hypoproct broader than each cercus, low-convex apically, with 6 distal setae of approximately equal length, both surfaces uniformly microtrichose; aedeagus cylindrical, slightly elbowed dorsally near basal third, nearly as long as gonocoxite, with oval, dorsoapical opening near rounded apex and 4 apicolateral, hairless sensoria; gonocoxite broadly cylindrical, tapering abruptly beyond insertion of gonostylus into conical, posteromesally-directed lobe, apex with 2-3 setae no longer than breadth of lobe tip and without the single, long sensory peg found in some congeners (Figs 10–11); gonostylus sleek, cylindrical, narrowest near ¾ length, with 2 setae along length and 2 adjacent to solid tooth, any microtrichia not apparent.</p> <p>Female abdomen. Tergites first through seventh as for male but lateral setae and covering scales more numerous; eighth tergite membranous with anterior pair of trichoid sensilla and a few short setae on posterior margin. Sternites second through seventh as for male but setae and scales at midlength more numerous and not prominently divided into separate groups; eighth sternite membranous, without vestiture except for widely separated anterior pair of trichoid sensilla. Ovipositor (Fig. 9) short, protrusible part not much longer than seventh tergite, bare dorsally and laterally, with mixed long and short setae ventrally; cerci ovoid, bilaterally flattened, lateral surface with widely spaced setae, medial surface with scattered short setae and dense apicoventral group of more than 50 short setae, these setae slightly longer than width of their sockets; hypoproct broadly rounded apically, with 2 distal setae.</p> <p>Pupa (Fig. 15). Exuviae hyaline. Vertex bearing two papillae on each side, one with long seta, the other without. Antennal bases low-conic anteriorly. Face smooth, frons with papilla on each side, with seta, face with a triplet of papillae anteriad of each palpal base, one without seta, its base larger than those of other two, which each bear minute seta. Prothoracic spiracles elongate, cylindrical, tracheae reaching to apex. Abdominal spiracles on first segment not raised above surface, on segments second through sixth several times longer than basal width, tapered and stiff, on segments seventh and eighth barely longer than basal width. Abdominal first segment with short spicules only on pleura, remainder smooth; segments second through eighth covered with short spicules of uniform length except anterior third of tergum mostly covered with larger, spinose spicules; terminal segment covered with short spicules.</p> <p>Larval third instar. (Figs 12–14). Length, 1.5-1.8 mm (n = 10). Head broad, rounded apically, apodemes longer than head capsule, antennae as long as head capsule, slightly tapered from base, rounded apically. Spatula present, with two rounded anterior lobes and long shaft with wavy edges. Dorsal integument smooth, without spicules; ventral integument mainly smooth except for pseudopods, 2 each on meso- and metathorax and 3 each on first through seventh abdominal segments, those segments also with horizontal anteroventral rows of spicules, 3 rows on mesothorax, the number gradually increasing through the seventh abdominal, the eighth with several rows but situated posteriorly, and terminal segment with 3 low, smooth convexities surrounded by spicules. Anus dorsal. Papillae: collar segment with 2 dorsals and 2 ventrals, all without setae; 6 setose dorsals on each thoracic and first through seventh abdominal segments, first and sixth setae of each row longest, third and fourth shorter, about as long as pleural papillae, and second and fifth setae quite short, about one-fourth as long as middle pair, and eighth abdominal segment with 2 dorsals, as long as longest pair of other segments; 6 terminals bearing long setae of equal length with rounded apices, as long as longest pair of other segments; two setose pleurals on each side of all thoracic and abdominal segments except terminal; 2 sternals without setae on prothorax and four on eighth abdominal segment, all without setae, all sternals elsewhere undetectable, apparently lost; laterals in two usually closely contiguous triplets on each side of midline of thoracic segments, one of each triplet with long seta, remainder without, the setose member of triplet may be separate from remaining two (Fig. 12); and single setose ventral on each side on thoracic and first through seventh abdominal segments.</p> <p>Material examined. Types of names under this taxon: holotype male of D. viburni, Albany, New York, swept from Viburnum acerifolium L. (Adoxaceae), VI-11-1906, deposited in NYSM; holotype male of D. caryae, Albany, New York, swept from Carya sp. (Juglandaceae), VI-19-1906, deposited in NYSM; holotype male of D. cocci, Illinois, reared V-1-1897 from Diaspidiotus uvae (Comstock) (Diaspididae), (as Aspidiotus uvae), deposited in USNM.</p> <p>Other specimens (all in USNM): USA: 3 larvae, 2 males, female, Gainesville, Florida, reared from Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) (Diaspididae) on Morus rubra L. (Moraceae), XI-15-1973, F. Collins; male, Hancock Co., Maine, VIII-21-1981, R. J. Gagné; male, Beltsville, Maryland, V-17 to 21-1970, R. W. Carlson; male, Silver Spring, Maryland, VII-19-1981, R. J. Gagné; Maryland: 3 males, female, Rockville, Maryland, from Pseudaulacaspis prunicola (Maskell) (Diaspididae), IX-2-1981, T. Rivnay; 3 males 2 females, Oxon Hill, Maryland, reared IX-2-1981 from P. pentagona; 8 males, four females, 2 pupae and 7 larvae, Asheville, North Carolina, reared/taken IV-22-2022 from P. prunicola, infesting Prunus laurocerasus L. collected III-24-2022, M.A. Bertone; 2 males, 3 females, Pisa, Italy, reared from Targiona vitis (Signoret) (Diaspididae), A. Lucchi; and 1 male, Sweden, Smǻland, Nybro, Bäckebo, Grytsjön Nature Reserve, old-growth aspen forest on boulder terrain, VII-2 to VII-12-2005, Malaise trap, Swedish Malaise Trap Project.</p> <p>Remarks. Felt (1907, 1908, 1918) described D. viburni under three names, separating them on the basis of superficial characters that included relative proportions of antennae and legs. He also used purported color differences due to bodily sclerotization but not the definite marks due to vestiture that occur on the specimens prior to mounting. This species is distinct among its congeners for the lack of a sensory peg at the apex of the gonocoxite, the tooth of the gonostylus is not significantly wider than the shaft, and the aedeagus is only slightly shorter than the gonocoxite. As the only Dentifibula in the Western Hemisphere and a geographic range that includes Italy and Sweden, it is possible the species was transported to North America on plants infested with a diaspidid host at some point following European colonization.</p> <p>Distribution. This species is widespread in eastern USA and was found once each in Italy and Sweden. It has been reared from four species of Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus uvae, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, Pseudaulacaspis prunicola, and Targiona vitis.</p> <p>Behavior. Larvae from the Asheville, North Carolina, series were found beneath the coverings (tests) of its diaspidid host. Although scale populations in this instance were high, there remained very few live scale insects, and those were mostly being fed upon by D. viburni (Fig. 1). Larvae were found to be covered entirely by the scale tests, and full-grown larvae formed their cocoons under the tests. A few scales were parasitized also by chalcidoid wasps.</p> <p>Collins &amp; Whitcomb (1975) gave a further account of this species on white peach scale, P. pentagona, collected from several plants in northern Florida: “The female would walk about on a stem, dragging the tip of her abdomen, until a crevice was found where she would lay 1- 4 eggs in 1 to 2 min. The hollow beneath an uplifted scale armor or a notch in the bark were typical oviposition sites though eggs were also observed on smooth bark away from scales. Larvae were seen attached to the female scale body, on the dorsal or ventral side or adjacent to it, with mouthparts hooked into the scale. On some branches as many as 3 or 4 larvae were attached to the body of a female scale. The larva would construct a thin, white, papery [cocoon] and expel a single, brown, spherical fecal pellet prior to pupation. The [pupae] were found beneath scale shields which were either cleaned out or still contained a dead, shriveled scale body.”</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC08F36A2AA32A330C626624	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC0FF36A2AA3288A0C3562EB.text	039087BDFC0FF36A2AA3288A0C3562EB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula ceylanica Felt 1915	<div><p>Dentifibula ceylanica Felt</p> <p>Fig. 10.</p> <p>Dentifibula ceylanica Felt 1915: 175, holotype in NYSM; Gagné 1973a: 500, as new synonym of Dentifibula obtusilobae Felt. Removed here from synonymy.</p> <p>This species is based on a single male reared from a Hemichionaspis (Diaspididae) found on twigs of Senna alata (L.) Roxb. (as Cassia alata) (Fabaceae) in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. It was found in the Gardens at the same time as D. obtusilobae Felt. The specimen was mounted in Canada balsam without benefit of clearing so few details of the terminalia are visible (Fig. 10). Harris (1968) was forced to ignore this species in his revision of cecidomyiid coccoid predators as “inadequate for accurate description.” Gagné (1973a) could not separate D. ceylanica from D. obtusilobae with the microscopy then at his disposal and synonymized the two species. It is apparent now that they are distinct, so D. ceylanica is removed from synonymy. The terminalia of D. ceylanica (Fig. 10) show an apical sensory peg on the gonocoxite, a sinuous, large-toothed gonostylus that is narrowest near midlength, and a long, strongly curved, pointed aedeagus that attains the length of the gonocoxite. The aedeagus of D. hastata Fedotova &amp; Sidorenko also has a long, strongly curved, apically pointed and probably longer aedeagus, but its much longer gonocoxite marks it as a distinct species. These are the only two Dentifibula species with such a strongly curved aedeagus. It should be possible to find it on its host in its type locality again. It should also be possible to find in the same place also Androdiplosis coccidivora Felt (1915). This species, known from a single female whose diaspidid host was not positively identified, might be that of D. ceylanica. Harris (1968) found that A. coccidivora resembled a Lestodiplosis (and accordingly Dentifibula) except that its flagellomeres each had two nodes, as he illustrated in detail. The holotype and only known specimen of A. coccidivora was unfortunately lost in transit after Harris’s examination.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC0FF36A2AA3288A0C3562EB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32CEE0DC56710.text	039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32CEE0DC56710.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula hastata Fedotova & Sidorenko 2005	<div><p>Dentifibula hastata Fedotova &amp; Sidorenko</p> <p>Dentifibula hastata Fedotova &amp; Sidorenko 2005: 214, holotype in Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.</p> <p>This species is known from a single male caught in flight in the vicinity of Kamenushka, 30 km SE Ussuriysk, Primorskiï Territory, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The sketchy drawings accompanying the original description show an unusually long prolongation of the gonocoxite beyond the insertion of the gonostylus, a very prominent gonostylar tooth, and a long, strongly curved and apically pointed aedeagus that reaches the apex of the gonocoxites. The hypoproct and the slit at the apex of the aedeagus are not shown and a sensory peg at the gonocoxal apex is not clearly indicated. The only other Dentifibula with a strongly curved aedeagus is D. ceylanica, but it is shorter in that species.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32CEE0DC56710	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32E270D056689.text	039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32E270D056689.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula magna Mo & Liu 2003	<div><p>Dentifibula magna Mo &amp; Liu</p> <p>Dentifibula magna Mo &amp; Liu 2003: 51, holotype in Shandong Agricultural University, Tainan, China.</p> <p>This distinctive species is based on a series of three males caught in flight at one site in Anji County, Zhejiang, China. The original drawing of the terminalia shows an apically convex hypoproct with two short apical setae; a very narrow gonocoxite, its apicoventral lobe shorter and less acute than any other species and with no apical sensory peg indicated; a gonostylus that is conspicuously narrowed at midlength and greatly expanded apically; and a pointed, cylindrical aedeagus that appears straight and is slightly longer than the gonocoxites.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32E270D056689	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32F9E0B156040.text	039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32F9E0B156040.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula marikovskajae Fedotova & Sidorenko 2004	<div><p>Dentifibula marikovskajae Fedotova &amp; Sidorenko</p> <p>Dentifibula marikovskajae Fedotova &amp; Sidorenko 2004: 98, holotype in Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.</p> <p>Illustrations of the terminalia for this species known from two males caught in flight in Kamenushka, 30 km SE of Ussuriysk Primorskiï Territory, Eastern Siberia, Russia, are difficult to interpret because of their evidently skewed mounts. The hypoproct is blunt apically with eight short setae; one gonocoxite shows a single sensory peg at its apex but its companion shows two; the gonostylus appears narrowest at midlength on one specimen and at the distal third on the other; and the aedeagus appears slightly shorter than the gonocoxite in both drawings but is curved at the base in one and at midlength on the other.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC0EF36B2AA32F9E0B156040	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC0EF36B2AA329D70CB963F9.text	039087BDFC0EF36B2AA329D70CB963F9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula nigritarsis Mo 1992	<div><p>Dentifibula nigritarsis Mo</p> <p>Dentifibula nigritarsis Mo 1992: 293, holotype in Shandong Agricultural University, Tainan, China.</p> <p>This species is known only from the holotype male caught in flight in Taian, Shandong, China. The drawing accompanying the original description shows an apically convex hypoproct with a pair of apical setae on each side, gonocoxites with a pair of setae and no sensory peg at its pointed apex, gonostyli that are narrowest at their distal third and with only a moderately sized tooth, and a fairly short aedeagus. This species, D. viburni and D. turkmenorum are apparently the only three species of Dentifibula that do not show a sensory peg at the apex of the gonocoxite.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC0EF36B2AA329D70CB963F9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC0EF3642AA32B4E0814645C.text	039087BDFC0EF3642AA32B4E0814645C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula nigroapicalis Kolesik	<div><p>Dentifibula nigroapicalis Kolesik</p> <p>Dentifibula nigroapicalis Kolesik in Kolesik &amp; De Faveri 2014: 100, holotype in South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia.</p> <p>This is known from a series reared from Aulacaspis australis Brimblecombe (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The hypoproct is slightly concave apically and bears a single seta on each lobe; the gonocoxite has a sensory peg at its narrowed apex; the gonostylus is narrowest at midlength with a prominent apical tooth, and the aedeagus, not counting the apodeme, is barely half the length of the gonocoxites, much the shortest of any species of Dentifibula. The female shows the characteristic field of short, ventral setae found also in all Lestodiplosis species.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC0EF3642AA32B4E0814645C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC01F3642AA32DEA0A9366A3.text	039087BDFC01F3642AA32DEA0A9366A3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula obtusilobae Felt	<div><p>Dentifibula obtusilobae Felt</p> <p>Fig. 11.</p> <p>Dentifibula obtusilobae Felt 1915: 176. Sri Lanka: Peradeniya, Botanic Gardens, syntypes (male and two females) in New York State Museum, Albany, USA.</p> <p>One of the few reared species of Dentifibula, it was reared from Pinnaspis aspidistrae (Signoret) (Diaspididae) (as Hemichionspis aspidistrae) and a few specimens of Hemiberlesia lataniae (Signoret) (Diaspididae) (as Aspidiotus lataniae) found in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Paradeniya, Sri Lanka, on Piper nigrum L. (Piperaceae) It is known from a male and two females, all poorly mounted in Canada balsam without benefit of clearing. Harris (1968) in his revision of cecidomyiids preying on coccoids stated that the material of this species was limited in quantity and quality so that their usefulness was questionable. The recognizable parts of the male terminalia (Fig. 11) are the apically pointed gonocoxites with an apical sensory peg, a generally cylindrical gonostylus, and a straight aedeagus that is about three-fourths the length of the gonocoxites. One of the females fits the genus with its elongate flagellomere necks and numerous, short, ventral cercal setae, but the other female lacks its head and the cerci are obscured. One supposes D. obtusilobae could be found again at the type locality.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC01F3642AA32DEA0A9366A3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC01F3642AA32877087260D6.text	039087BDFC01F3642AA32877087260D6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula spinosa (Grover 1965)	<div><p>Dentifibula spinosa (Grover)</p> <p>Muirodiplosis spinosa Grover 1965: 112, holotype in P. Grover Collection, Allahabad, India or Cecidological Society of India, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.</p> <p>Dentifibula spinosa: Gagné 1973a: 500 (new combination).</p> <p>The male holotype and a female paratype were caught at a light in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The male hypoproct is convex apically, the apical setae not shown; the gonocoxite has a sensory peg at its narrowed apex; the gonostylus is generally evenly cylindrical except for a unique, angular projection that issues abruptly from its basal half; and a slightly sinuate aedeagus that is shorter than the gonocoxites. The female is evidently not a Dentifibula. Its cerci lack the field of ventral, crowded, short sensoria characteristic of this genus and Lestodiplosis. Additionally, flagellomere necks are no more than half as long as the nodes, in contrast to being nearly as long in known female Dentifibula spp.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC01F3642AA32877087260D6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
039087BDFC01F3642AA32A6309856230.text	039087BDFC01F3642AA32A6309856230.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentifibula turkmenorum Mamaev 1986	<div><p>Dentifibula turkmenorum Mamaev</p> <p>Dentifibula turkmenorum Mamaev 1986: 65. Holotype in Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan.</p> <p>This species is known only from the holotype male caught in flight in Ipaï-Kala, Kopetdag, Turkmenistan. The superficial illustration accompanying the description shows a narrow gonocoxite with three short setae apically, a mostly evenly cylindrical gonostylus, and an elongate, evenly cylindrical aedeagus nearly as long as the gonocoxite.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087BDFC01F3642AA32A6309856230	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gagné, Raymond J.;Bertone, Matthew A.	Gagné, Raymond J., Bertone, Matthew A. (2022): Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 583-592, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
