Michael von TschirnhausBielefeld University · Faculty of Biology
Michael von Tschirnhaus
PhD
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Introduction
Finishing a world bibliography of Agromyzidae and Chloropidae (26,660 titles) together with a cross reference to all world taxa and all pages on which they are mentioned.
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October 1982 - present
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- Retired
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- Study of zoology, botany, geology, phytopathology at universities Marburg, Bonn and Kiel. Dissertation on Diptera [Spixiana Suppl. 6: 416 pp.), teaching biology at universities Kiel & Bielefeld. Focus: Diptera, Agromyzidae, Chloropidae, bibliography.
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Publications (74)
Seventeen species of Lonchaeidae are recorded from the west African state of Togo amongst which are eight species new to science namely; Silba akloa sp. nov., Silba bambesa sp. nov., Silba kakamega sp. nov., Silba media sp. nov., Silba otandjobo sp. nov., Silba togoensis sp. nov., Silba tsifama sp. nov. and Silba zogbegani sp. nov. In addition, one...
A new species of Lonchaeidae in the genus Lonchaea Fallén is described from Peru. It is placed within the existing key to Peruvian Lonchaeidae and its relationship with other species in the family is discussed.
Aulagromyza heringii (Hendel) is a widespread leaf miner fly all over Europe, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and China of Fraxinus excelsior. Infested leaves with leaf-miner larvae were collected from F. excelsior in Tehran province in 2016. During laboratory rearing, adult flies and parasitoids were obtained and identified. We present here the first r...
During the annual meeting of the Diptera Working Group (AK DIPTERA) from 17 to 19 June 2022, Diptera (two-winged flies) were collected at five selected localities in and around Landsweiler-Reden, Germany (federal state of Saarland). Additional partly older records are from other localities from the Saarland and in the case of Pseudonapomyza strobli...
Phytomyza orobanchia Kaltenbach, 1964, a leaf miner fly of Orobanche spp. and Phelipanche ramosa (L.) Pomel, is reported as a species new to Slovakia based upon dates from 50 localities from lowlands after as much as alpine location.
The faunistic knowledge of the Diptera of Morocco recorded from 1787 to 2021 is summarized and updated in this first catalogue of Moroccan Diptera species. A total of 3057 species, classified into 948 genera and 93 families (21 Nematocera and 72 Brachycera), are listed. Taxa (superfamily, family, genus and species) have been updated according to cu...
Elaborated kettle trap flowers to temporarily detain pollinators evolved independently in several angiosperm lineages. Intensive research on species of Aristolochia and Ceropegia recently illuminated how these specialized trap flowers attract particular pollinators through chemical deception. Morphologically similar trap flowers evolved in Riocreux...
During the 35th meeting of the German Diptera working group (AK DIPTE RA) from June 8th to 10th, 2018, Diptera were
recorded at three locations in the Biosphere Reserve ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ and in the surroundings of the Youth Hostel
Hitzacker. A total of 383 species from 47 families were collected. Of these, 47 species (12 %) are first rec...
First records of 151 species in the family Agromyzidae are presented for 40 countries and major islands in the Palaearctic Region (Russia being split into four subregions): from Afghanistan (1 sp.), Albania (15 spp.), Algeria (1 sp.), Andorra (2 spp.), Armenia (4 spp.), Austria (14 spp.), Balearic Islands (4 spp.), Canary Islands (2 spp.), China -...
The genus Camarota is revised with the description of a new species—C. ugandae—and a key to species. The genus Paracamarota Cherian is considered here as a new junior synonym of Camarota. Distinctive morphological characters, such as the dark transverse band on the arista, the “vena spuria” of the wing and the placement of apical scutellar bristles...
New records of 110 species of the acalyptrate Diptera family Agromyzidae are given from Portugal, including Madeira, Porto Santo and the Azores. A quarantine plant pest, Nemorimyza maculosa (Malloch, 1913), was detected in the Old World for the first time. Details on Phytobia xylem- miners and a parthenogenetic Phytomyza species are recorded togeth...
The faunistic knowledge of the Diptera of Morocco recorded from 1787 to 2021 is summarized and updated in this first catalogue of Moroccan Diptera species. A total of 3057 species, classified into 948 genera and 93 families (21 Nematocera and 72 Brachycera), are listed. Taxa (superfamily, family, genus and species) have been updated according to cu...
The taxonomic history for all species of a species-rich genus of the Chloropidae (Diptera) is briefly presented for the first time, by the example of the genus Elachiptera Macquart, 1835. Here, all names of the species group ever combined with the generic name Elachiptera are listed together with the references and the first pages of their descript...
Jentzsch, M., Glinka, T., Link, J., Lehmann, B.: Use of a car-net in the Ziegelroda forestry - results and comments on the method (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones; Insecta: Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Diptera). - In the late summer of 2012 and in the early summer of 2013 the invertebrate...
Natural selection imposed by natural toxins has led to striking levels of convergent evolution at the molecular level. Cardiac glycosides represent a group of plant toxins that block the Na,K-ATPase, a vital membrane protein in animals. Several herbivorous insects have convergently evolved resistant Na,K-ATPases, and in some species, convergent gen...
Ceropegia L. (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) comprises more than 200 species, all characterized by complex pitfall flowers. The deceptive flowers are myiophilous and pollinated predominantly by small flies from different families. It has been suggested that floral scent cues, that mimic food sources or oviposition sites, play an important role for a...
Four to six percent of plants, distributed over different angiosperm families, entice pollinators by deception [1]. In these systems, chemical mimicry is often used as an efficient way to exploit the olfactory preferences of animals for the purpose of attracting them as pollinators [2,3]. Here, we report a very specific type of chemical mimicry of...
Pollination success of highly specialised flowers is susceptible to fluctuations of the pollinator fauna. Mediterranean Aristolochia rotunda has deceptive trap flowers exhibiting a highly specialised pollination system. The sole pollinators are kleptoparasitic flies in search of food. This study investigates these pollinators on a spatio‐temporal s...
DNA sequences offer powerful tools for describing the members and interactions of natural communities. In this study, we establish the to-date most comprehensive library of DNA barcodes for a terrestrial site, including all known macroscopic animals and vascular plants of an intensively studied area of the High Arctic, the Zackenberg Valley in Nort...
We present recent findings of Chloropidae in Iran and a first list of the Iranian species of this family. It includes 20 genera and 50 species (39 identified to species level), recorded up until 2014. Some European distribution records not included in Fauna Europaea are added. The courtship behavior of Polyodaspis sulcicollis is described for the f...
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Ceropegia species (Apocynaceae) have deceptive pitfall flowers and exploit small flies as pollinators, supposedly by chemical mimicry. Only preliminary data on the composition of flower scents are available for a single species so far, and the mimicry system is not yet understood in any species. We collected data on basic pollination aspects of C....
A female Lestes dryas caught a planthopper and devoured it within ca 9 min. Ca 2 min after inition of the feeding process the first individuals of Conioscinella frontella arrived and partly succeeded in suck ing on the plant hopper. For the first time we thus report on kleptoparasitic frit flies (Chloropidae) visiting the prey of a member of Odon...
Pollination of several angiosperms is based on deceit. In such systems, the flowers advertise a reward that ultimately is not provided. We report on a previously unknown pollination/mimicry system discovered in deceptive Aristolochia rotunda (Aristolochiaceae). Pollinators were collected in the natural habitat and identified. Flower scent and the v...
Table S1Pherobase survey on chemical substances reported for true bugs of the family Miridae
Table S2 Composition of headspace scent samples
Table S3 Components used as references in scent analyses and for bioassays
Table S4 Amount of EAD-active components
Table S5 Attractiveness of synthetic scent mixtures and Heteroptera to pollinators
Table S6 A...
Zimbabwe. For each country the number of known species are put together in a table. An updated Afrotropical checklist is added. The most peculiar genitalia of the redetected Ophiomyia dhofarensis are discussed in connection with other species, among them: Ophiomyia yunnanensis comb. nov. [= Ophiomyia dumosa syn. nov.]. Ophiomyia nigrimaculata comb....
Leaf-miners species present in the production zone of vegetable crops of the states of Morelos, Puebla, and Veracruz were studied. 360 flies and 390 parasitoids were collected. The following leaf-miner species were identified: Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess 1880) and Liriomyza sativae Blanchard 1938. Three parasitoid species were identified Neochrysoc...
Parasitoid complexes of fifteen species of Agromyzidae reared from 20 host plants were studied: Agromyza nana Meigen, Aulagromyza populi (Kalt.), Amauromyza sp. n. aff. insularis, Calycomyza humeralis (von Roser), Chromatomyia horticola (Goureau), Liriomyza eupatoriana Spencer, L. demeijerei Hering, L. dracunculi Hering, L. strigata (Meigen), L. so...
Between 1973 and 2006, a local population of Savi’s Warblers Locustella luscinioides was studied at 20 wetlands in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (centre: 54°13'N,10°18'E) representing a core distribution of this species in northwestern Germany. The aim of this long-term study was to investigate the warbler’s phenology and to collect biometrical data...
Myrmemorpha Dufour, 1833 and M. brachyptera Dufour, 1833 are considered as synonyms of Elachiptera Macquart, 1835 and E. brevipennis (Meigen, 1830), respectively (Oscinellinae). Pachychoeta Bezzi, 1895, Melanochaeta Bezzi, 1906 and Pachy¬chaetina Hendel, 1907 are considered as synonyms of Oscinella Becker, 1909 as the type-species of these genera,...
The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the widely used generic name Oscinella Becker, 1909 (CHLOROPIDAE). The name Oscinella is threatened by its senior subjective synonyms Melanochaeta Bezzi, 1906 and Pachychaetina Hendel, 1907. Strict application of the Code would result in the name Oscinella frit (Linna...
Stomosisarachnophila Brake sp. n. (Diptera, Milichiidae) is described from Western Australia. The species is kleptoparasitic on araneid spiders. The paper is an example for a new approach in cybertaxonomy which includes generation of manuscripts within a Virtual Research Environment (Scratchpads), semantic enhancement, parallel release of the publi...
Species of the genus Acropyga are rarely encountered subterranean ants that rely on mealybugs or aphids to provide their nutritional needs. Female Acropyga (Formicinae) alates of pantropical and Mediterranean species carry mealybugs with their mandibles while swarming and probably inoculate their new nests with these mealybugs. The natural history...
A review of specific publications dealing with Baltic amber Diptera, Acalyptratae, from the years 1822 until 2008 in-cludes 38 articles. H. LOEW was the first entomologist searching systematically for Diptera in amber. Two of his three articles are discussed. Parts of his first one (1850) are translated from German because of its extreme rarity in...
Abstract: A review of specific publications dealing with Baltic amber Diptera, Acalyptratae, from the years 1822 until 2008 includes
38 articles. H. LOEW was the first entomologist searching systematically for Diptera in amber. Two of his three articles are
discussed. Parts of his first one (1850) are translated from German because of its extreme r...
A total of 515 fly species of the so-called „Acalyptratae“ have been recorded from the East Frisian islands along the northwestern coast of Germany. Among them, 25 species could not be identified to species level.
About one quarter of the records were partly based on very old data which had to be critically assessed. The remaining species have been...
Introduction When sorting out the masses of Agromyzidae and Chloropidae from the traps of the " Diptera Stelviana " project (ZIEGLER 2007 and this volume) the author removed some fly species of which only a few specimens were captured. All these, except one specimen of Opetia nigra (Opetiidae), belong to the so-called " Acalyptratae " MACQUART, 183...
von Tschirnhaus, M. 2005: New records of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iceland, with a survey of all simultaneously collected Dipteran families. — Entomol. Fennica 16: 237–245. During a visit to Iceland in 2001, 727 specimens of Phoridae were caught. Seven species of Phoridae were identified, five of which were recorded from Iceland for th...
We summarise the findings of arthropods collected by fogging the canopy of 24 pine trees in two sites in Eastern and Western Norway. From the samples, taken in 1998 and in 1999, almost 30,000 specimens were determined to 512 species, with Diptera being most species rich (210 species), followed by Coleoptera (76 species) and Araneae (49 species). Of...
The article deals with Bavarian records of the Diptera family Chloropidae. Nine species are recorded for the first time in Germany. Four species had been reared from hitherto unknown larval Substrates. Nine mistakes in the checklist of German chloropids are corrected.
Sasakawa, M. & von Tschirnhaus, M. (1998)
Agromyzidae (Leaf-mining flies). - Pp. 121-122 in: Oosterbroek, Pjotr (ed): Fauna malesiana Handbook 1. - XI + 227 pp.; Brill, Leiden etc. [En.] ISBN: 9789004110533.
Trapping techniques are frequently used to monitor pest species. These trapping techniques have to provide reasonably precise estimates of densities and sex ratios of monitored species in order to apply appropriate insect pest control measures most efficiently. A broad range of trapping methods are applied to gather this basic ecological informatio...
Temperate and tropical latitudes are compared in respect to agromyzid diversity. Consumption rates of host-plant resources are generally low. Special collecting methods used for the first time, in tropical rain forests resulted in an unexpectedly rich fauna of undescribed species. Most belong to cambium miners of the genus Phytobia, with picture wi...
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Question (1)
dear colleagues,
Cerný and I published an article on Afrotropical Agromyzidae with a new checklist. We plan to continue with Afrotropical Agromyzidae as I possess more than 10,000 specimens. Moreover, in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya, I found a new genus of Agromyzinae of high phylogenetical importance but only three specimens belonging to three species. The genus will be mentioned in my cooperative chapter for the Afr. Manual but not yet described because of the few specimens. Possibly we could check your Agromyzidae one day for searching this genus or for an enlarged eenlarged study.
Michael v. Tschirnhaus, Bielefeld University, Germany
