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  • chrisjohnson
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Topic: Rabdophaga rosaria-strobilina

The current dictionarly list in R6 includes Rabdophaga rosaria but does not list Rabdophaga strobilina in the drop downlist when importing taxa. On NBN Atlas R. rosaria is shown as a synonym of R. strobilina.

According to the latest Diptera checklist (2019)
"Rabdophaga rosaria (Loew, 1850 - Cecidomyia) Syn. with strobilina by Gagné (2004), restored by Gagné (2014)".

Similarly - Plant Parasites of Europe (https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/ani … trobilina/) Quotes the following for Rabdophaga strobilina
"This species is closely related to Rabdophaga rosaria, and often confused and even synonymised with that species. In fact, it is an inquiline of rosaria."

I am confused, can anyone clarify the situation for me, or is it just a taxonomic muddle.

Many thanks & Happy New Year

Christine

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Re: Rabdophaga rosaria-strobilina

UKSI has this:

Rabdophaga strobilina (Bremi, 1847)
   =Cecidomyia rosaria Loew, 1850   
   =Cecidomyia strobilina Bremi, 1847   
   =Rabdophaga rosaria (Loew, 1850)   
   =Rabdophaga salicina authors   
   =Rhabdophaga rosaria (Loew)

But perhaps we need to split off the rosaria names to a distinct taxon? I'm not sure as it's not my field. Actually we should probably treat the old, combined concept as an aggregate and then treat this as a split, to ensure that we treat real rosalina records as distinct. Nasty.

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)