| Name: | Libnotes (Afrolimonia) ladogensis (Lackschewitz, 1940) | | Publication: | In: Lackschewitz and Pagast, 1940, Fliegen pal. Reg. 3(5)2: 6 (as Limonia) | | Status: | Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): jugoslavica (Nielsen, 1959). | | Classification: | Family Limoniidae Subfamily Limoniinae
| | Descriptive note: | Holotype [= Lectotype] designation: Lackschewitz, 1964. Invalid lectotype designation: Savchenko and Kandybina, 1987a. | | Keys: | Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 (Limoniinae Mongolia and nearby); Krivosheina, 2008a (larvae Libnotes); Podenas et al., 2015c; Podenas, 2016b (Libnotes Korea, updated in Podenas and Byun, 2018) |  |  |  |  |  |
habitus male | habitus female | hypopygium | hypopygium | ovipositor |
plus 11 more images of ovipositor, ovipositor, ovipositor, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, habitat, habitat and habitat. | | | | Distribution: | Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine (Carpathians); Russia: RUN (Kareliya), RUW, RUC, RUE;; Russia: WS (Altay, Tuva), ES (Buryatia Rep.), FE (Kamchatka, Amurskaya oblast, Khabarovskiy kray, Primorskiy kray); Kazakhstan (east); Mongolia, North Korea. Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia. | | Region(s): | Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic | | General note: | Added: Poland (Wiedenska, 1996), RUN (Kareliya) (Yakovlev and Polevoi, 1997). For Finland check Salmela, 2012b, 2012c, and citations below. | | Map: | Podenas et al., 2015 (Korea) | Figure references: | Habitus: Savchenko, 1985b; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 Wing: Nielsen, 1959b (as jugoslavica); Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007; Podenas et al., 2015 Hypopygium: Savchenko, 1985b; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007; Krivosheina, 2008a Ovipositor: Savchenko, 1985b; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007; Podenas et al., 2015
Immature stages Larva: Podeniene, 2003a; Krivosheina, 2008a; Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c Pupa: Krivosheina, 2008a
| | | | Citations | | | Belarus Habitat. Paramonov, 2019a: 95 (loc(s) Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, distr, habitats, citing various authors) (in Russian). | | Country not relevant Habitat. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English). | | Finland Habitat. Penttinen et al., 2010: 486 (red list status incl. criteria, habitats, causes of threat, threat factors). Habitat. Salmela, 2012c: 12 (classified as a saproxylic and/or fungivorous species). Habitat. Salmela et al., 2019: 523 (red list status, habitat types, threat factors). Habitat. Rasimus, 2022: 5 (on the craneflies fauna of Tavastia australis biogeographical province) (in Finnish). | | Lithuania Habitat. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian). | | North Korea Habitat. Podenas et al., 2015c: 82 (collected by the author in dense mixed forests, on river slopes covered with old deciduous trees, in marshy areas covered by forests in
eastern and Western Palaearctic Regions; the species is attracted to light; according to Savchenko (1985), larvae are developing in dead wood of deciduous trees. | | Russia Habitat. Krivosheina, M.G., 2008a: 460-462 (larvae or pupae under bark or in trunk of Fir [Abies], Birch [Betula], Linden [Tilia], Ash [Fraxinus]; larvae develop in dead wood in strongly humidified galleries of beetles impregnated with sap; pupae are situated immediately under the bark; empty pupal cases usually stick out of the bark; adults choose the bark areas excuding sap for laying eggs; aduls are widely known as carrier of spores of ambrosian Deuteromycetes, the mycelium of which larvae and adult feed on, citing Stark, 1952). Habitat. Krivosheina, N.P., 2009a: 125-133 (review Russian xylophilous Limoniidae, mainly inhabiting bark and wood of decomposing trees, with new original data on larval biology [found in bark and wood of deciduous trees]) (in Russian). Biology. Krivosheina, N.P., 2019b: 1092-1096 (on biotopic relations of flower-fly larvae of the genus Brachyopa Meigen, 1822; larvae of L. ladogensis are ploeophagous; see paper for details of occurrence of the larvae in different parts of standing and fallen Birch [Betula] and Poplar [Populus] trunks in Altay, Tuva, Buryatia, Kamchatka and Primorskiy kray). Biology. Krivosheina, N.P., 2020a: 608 (on ecological relations of the hoverfly larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae Eristalinae) bark inhabitants with xylobiont insects; larvae of G. acheron are saprophloeophagous; see paper for details of co-occurrence of the larvae in various species of trees, in different parts of Russia). Biology. Krivosheina, N.P., 2020b: 202-203 (on biotopic associations of the larvae of the hoverfly tribe Xylotini (Diptera, Syrphidae: Eristalinae) with xylobiont insects; larvae of L. ladogensis are ploeophagous; in Tuva larvae co-occurred in fallen Birch [Betula] trunks, in areas with dark humid bast, inside the tunnels of the ship-timber beetle H. dermestoides and the bark beetle Scolytus ratzeburgi Jans.). | | Slovakia Habitat. Stary, 2009d: 36 (a local ecologically significant saproxylic species). | | Sweden Habitat. Andersson and Brodin, 2019: 85-86 (loc(s) Ostergotland, notes on ecology [found at a small valley in sparse mixed forest with plenty of dead wood, mostly of Aspen [Populus tremula] (see habitat photo)) (in Swedish). | | Ukraine Habitat. Krivosheina, M.G., 2008a: 460-462 (larvae under bark of Beech [Fagus] and Maple [Acer]). | | | | Country not relevant Characters. Krivosheina, M.G., 2008a: 456-463, 475-476 (variability in wing and hypopygial characters in especially Far East Rusian material, comparison with plutonis, key larvae, descr larva and pupa, figs). Immatures. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English). Characters. Podenas, 2016b: 127, 129 (key, comparison). | | Lithuania Immatures. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian). | | Mongolia Key. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007: 27, 62-63 (key, figs). | | North Korea Description. Podenas et al., 2015c: 81-82 (descr, key, figs). | | Russia Immatures. Krivosheina, M.G., 2008a: 456-463, 475-476 (variability in wing and hypopygial characters in especially Far East Rusian material, comparison with plutonis, key larvae, descr larva and pupa, figs). | | Sweden Characters. Andersson and Brodin, 2019: 85-86 (short description with emphasis on identification, figs) (in Swedish). | | | | Belarus First record. Paramonov, 2019a: 95 (loc(s) Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, distr, habitats, citing various authors) (in Russian). | | Country not relevant Distribution. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English). | | Croatia Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature). | | Finland First record. Polevoi, 2001: 191 (loc(s)). Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 30 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha). Distribution. Salmela et al., 2019: 523 (red list status, habitat types, threat factors). Distribution. Rasimus, 2022: 5 (on the craneflies fauna of Tavastia australis biogeographical province) (in Finnish). | | Hungary First record. Stary, 2001b: 202 (loc(s), distr). | | Kazakhstan First record. Devyatkov, 2020a: 52 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian). | | Lithuania Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 21 (checklist). Distribution. Podenas, 2016b: 129 (loc(s)). | | Mongolia First record. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007: 63 (new for Mongolia, without further details). | | North Korea First record. Podenas et al., 2015c: 82, 92 (loc(s), distr, map). | | Poland Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 75 (checklist). Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 147 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks). | | Romania Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae). | | Russia Distribution. Pilipenko and Sidorenko, 2006b: 149 (checklist Kedrovaya Pad, distr) (in Russian). Distribution. Krivosheina, M.G., 2008a: 460 (various loc(s) from RUC: Moscow prov., south Siberia and the Far East, distr). Distribution. Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: 100 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast) (in Russian). Distribution. Podenas, 2016b: 129 (loc(s) [invalid] lectotype designated by Savchenko). Distribution. Krivosheina, N.P., 2019b: 1092-1096 (on biotopic relations of flower-fly larvae of the genus Brachyopa Meigen, 1822; larvae of L. ladogensis are ploeophagous; see paper for details of occurrence of the larvae in different parts of standing and fallen Birch [Betula] and Poplar [Populus] trunks in Altay, Tuva, Buryatia, Kamchatka and Primorskiy kray). Distribution. Krivosheina, N.P., 2020a: 608 (on ecological relations of the hoverfly larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae Eristalinae) bark inhabitants with xylobiont insects; larvae of G. acheron are saprophloeophagous; see paper for details of co-occurrence of the larvae in various species of trees, in different parts of Russia). Distribution. Krivosheina, N.P., 2020b: 202-203 (on biotopic associations of the larvae of the hoverfly tribe Xylotini (Diptera, Syrphidae: Eristalinae) with xylobiont insects; larvae of L. ladogensis are ploeophagous; in Tuva larvae co-occurred in fallen Birch [Betula] trunks, in areas with dark humid bast, inside the tunnels of the ship-timber beetle H. dermestoides and the bark beetle Scolytus ratzeburgi Jans.). Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 134 (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep. and Tatarstan Rep.). Distribution. Solodkii and Sergeev, 2023: 171 (loc(s) Primorskiy kray) (in Russian). | | Serbia Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature). | | Slovakia Distribution. Stary, 2006c: 135 (loc(s), distr). Distribution. Stary, 2009d: 36 (loc(s) Polana area, review loc(s) Slovakia). Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). Distribution. Podenas, 2016b: 129 (loc(s)). | | Sweden First record. Andersson and Brodin, 2019: 85-86 (loc(s) Ostergotland, notes on ecology [found at a small valley in sparse mixed forest with plenty of dead wood, mostly of Aspen [Populus tremula] (see habitat photo)) (in Swedish). | | Ukraine Distribution. Krivosheina, M.G., 2008a: 462 (loc(s)). | | | | Belarus Paramonov, 2019a: month(s): 6. | | Hungary Stary, 2001b: month(s): 6. | | Kazakhstan Devyatkov, 2020a: month(s): 6-7. | | Lithuania Podenas, 2016b: month(s): 6-7. | | North Korea Podenas et al., 2015c: month(s): 8. | | Poland Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 5. | | Russia Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: month(s): 8. Podenas, 2016b: month(s): 5. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6-7. Solodkii and Sergeev, 2023: month(s): 6. | | Slovakia Stary, 2006c: month(s): 5 or 6. Podenas, 2016b: month(s): 8. | | Sweden Andersson and Brodin, 2019: month(s): 6. | | | | Kazakhstan Devyatkov, 2020a: altitude: 1170 m. | | Lithuania Podenas, 2016b: altitude: 145 m. | | North Korea Podenas et al., 2015c: altitude: 1920 m. | | Poland Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 1103 m. | | Russia Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 100-607 m. | | Slovakia Stary, 2006c: altitude: 1000 m. |
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