Dasyhelea acuminata Kieffer

Dasyhelea acuminata Kieffer Dasyhelea acuminata Kieffer, 1919: 60 (female, Hungary); Zilahi-Sebess 1936 b: 198 (Hungary); Zilahi-Sebess 1940: 47 (male, female, syn.: =? verticillata; Hungary); Remm 1973 b: 354 (Hungary); Remm 1979: 49 (Estonia); Szadziewski 1986: 35 (male, female, syn.: = polita, = littoralis; Scotland, Belgium); Delécolle et al. 1991: 256 (France); Knoz 1997: 81 (Czech Republic); Knoz 1998: 118 (Czech Republic); Chandler et al. 2008: 89 (male, Great Britain). Dasyhelea obscura: Kieffer, 1919: 61 (male, female; Hungary). Nec D. obscura (Winnertz, 1852). Dasyhelea polita Edwards, 1921: 124 (male, female; Great Britain: Scotland); Edwards 1926: 402 (comments). Dasyhelea verticillata Kieffer, 1925 c: 63 (new name for obscura Kieffer var., male, female; France, Hungary); Zilahi- Sebess 1934: 152 (Bulgaria). Dasyhelea littorali s Goetghebuer, 1934 b: 289 (male, female; Belgium). Distribution. Great Britain (Scotland), Estonia, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria. Discussion. This species is probably an arboreal faunal element of Europe. The record from Germany provided by Havelka & Aguilar (1999) is questionable because they did not provide locality data, and therefore, we have not included this country in this section.Published as part of Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard, 2010, Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 2437 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19483