Genus Zaitzeviola Fedotova & Sidorenko, 2007

The taxonomic history of Zaitzeviola resembles that of Spungisomyia insofar as its true intrageneric diversity was discovered only several years after the genusʼs introduction, and then with Sweden as the main provenance of new species (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013). Another parallel is that Zaitzeviola was prior to the present study unrecorded from Germany, while the geographic neighbor, Sweden, was known to harbor seven species of the genus (Gagné & Jaschhof 2021; Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2021b). The present project found evidence of two Zaitzeviola occurring in Germany.