Details for Limonia trivittata
Name:Limonia trivittata (Schummel, 1829)
Publication:Beitr. Ent., Breslau 1: 114 (as Limnobia)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): ?nigrirostris (Gimmerthal, 1847).
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limoniinae
Descriptive note:Synonymy: Lackschewitz, 1927a.
Keys:Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2014c, 2016c (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016h; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC, RUE, North Caucasus; Georgia, Turkey (Asiatic part: Kars);; Russia: WS (Altay, Tuva); Kazakhstan (east), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic
General note:For Italy check Stary and Oosterbroek, 1996, and citations below. For Finland check Salmela, 2012b, 2012c, and citations below. For Norway check Olsen et al., 2018, and citations below. For Great Britain and Ireland check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below. To be confirmed for Russia: FE (Kamchatka) (in Palaearctic Catalogue (Savchenko et al., 1992), see Alexander, 1927x).
Map:Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire)
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references:
Hypopygium: Podenas et al., 2006

Immature stages
Larva: Hancock, 2022a
Pupa: Hancock, 2022a
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Habitat. Schultz et al., 2006: 351 (Hochmoor).
Belgium
Habitat. Tack et al., 2021: 194 (loc(s) Antwerpen, alle taxa biodiversiteit inventarisatie Bos t Ename, nat bos, vochtig bos en stromend water (in Dutch), see paper for description).
Bulgaria
Habitat. Hubenov, 2025b: suppl: 7 (annotated list Diptera high Bulgarian mts, local distr, habitats and zoogeography).
Czech Rep.
Habitat. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: 67 (on Limoniidae and Pediciidae of two localities in northern Bohemia, with list of localities, altitudes and habitats).
Denmark
Habitat. Byriel and Rojas, 2017: 118 (among the 101 species in a study on cranefly hotspots in unmanaged and managed forests) (in Danish).
Finland
Biology. Salmela, 2008: 11, 27, 52 (49) (ecology or habitat: eurytopic, terrestrial; phenology).
Habitat. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (habitats Aland Is).
Habitat. Rasimus, 2018: 17 (on saproxylic craneflies in the Tampere region) (in Finnish).
France
Habitat. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (adults were collected at a carr).
Biology. Quindroit, 2020a: 39, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020b: 138 (loc(s) Nord (59) and Pas-de-Calais (62) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 24 (loc(s) Aisne (02) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Georgia
Habitat. Stary and Obona, 2020: 137 (loc(s); with list of localities, habitats and altitudes).
Germany
Habitat. Ruckert, 2005: 47, 53 (found in a study on the association with the type of source: limnokrene, rheokrene, or helokrene in Schlesig-Holstein; restricted to limnokrene sources; see paper for details, as well as Anhang A2-A10).
Habitat. Wittrock, 2005: 84 (summer emergence; limnokrene).
Habitat. Dunk, 2018: 80, 96 (loc(s) Bayern with list of habtats).
Great Britain
Habitat. Kramer, 1999a: 30 (sites fed by a spring or flush).
Habitat. Godfrey, 2000a: 13, 20, 23 (woodland seepages, wet woodland and carr).
Habitat. Hancock, 2000: 51 (streamside vegetation).
Habitat. Hewitt et al., 2005: 37, 48 (found in wet woodlands on calcareous soils especially near rivers, there seems to be an association with butterbur, Petasites hybrida, in some cases and it is possible that the larvaa develops in petioles or rootstock).
Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 84 (wet shaded places close to water).
Habitat. Kramer, 2009g: 2 (collected in damp wooded valleys).
Habitat. Kramer, 2011j: 23, 25 (a local species of woodland).
Biology. Hancock, 2022a: 61-67 (on the larvae and pupae with notes on feeding within decaying Apiaceae plant roots; preserved material of specimens recently reared from common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) and wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris) is figured and compared with related species).
Habitat. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 24 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); species of damp woodland).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2024c: 34 (loc(s) Lancashire, see paper for various habitats).
Lithuania
Biology. Gorban and Podeniene, 2022: 5 (loc(s); reared from Ash [Fraxinus excelsior]; see paper for details).
Norway
Habitat. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 215 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Habitat. Chaniecka and Wiedenska, 2006: 149 (occurrence in spring-, springbrook-, and/or bogspring plant communities) (in Polish).
Biology. Wiedenska, 2014: 14 (on the occurence of Limoniidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians; observed emergence of adults in july) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English).
Phenology. Wiedenska, 2015a: 49, 54 (on the flight activity of Limoniidae in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians, with flight diagrams) (in Polish, tables also in English).
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2017a: 23-24 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Russia
Habitat. Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: (collected in a herbaceous vegetation with Urtica, Chamerion, umbellifers and grasses near a ditch and in a mixed forest).
Habitat. Lantsov, 2011c: 86 (found in Petasites marshland) (in Russian).
Sweden
Habitat. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 44, 47 (distributin and ecology in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Phylogeny. Lv et al., 2023b: 238-239 (phylogeny Oriental and Palaearctic Limonia based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Great Britain
Characters. Boardman, 2007: 84 (characters).
Immatures. Hancock, 2022a: 61-67 (on the larvae and pupae with notes on feeding within decaying Apiaceae plant roots; preserved material of specimens recently reared from common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) and wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris) is figured and compared with related species).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Distribution. Schultz et al., 2006: 351 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Reusch and Heiss, 2012: 323-332 (loc(s) Nat. Park Gesause, see PDF for months and altitudes).
Distribution. Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: 140 (loc(s) Osttirol).
Belarus
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 146 (loc(s) Minsk region).
Belgium
Distribution. Peeters in litt., 2016: (among Malaisetrap material from Jardin Massart, Brussels).
Distribution. Tack et al., 2021: 194 (loc(s) Antwerpen, alle taxa biodiversiteit inventarisatie Bos t Ename, nat bos, vochtig bos en stromend water (in Dutch), see paper for description).
Distribution. Dek and Peeters, 2023a: 138 (loc(s) Botanic Garden Jean Massart, Brussels-Capital Region, local in Belgium).
Bosnia-Herzegowina
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature).
Bulgaria
Distribution. Hubenov, 2016: 49 (annotated checklist Diptera of the Rila Mountains based on data from the literature).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2017: 70 (on vertical distribution in the Pirin and Rila Mts; see paper for details on forests and subalpine-alpine zones, distr).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2021a: 38 (checklist with summary of distr in Bulgaria, references).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2025b: suppl: 7 (annotated list Diptera high Bulgarian mts, local distr, habitats and zoogeography).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary et al., 2005a: 28 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Distribution. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: 67 (on Limoniidae and Pediciidae of two localities in northern Bohemia, with list of localities, altitudes and habitats).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 150 (checklist).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2007b: 46 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2008: 11, 52 (49) (loc(s), known from all Finnish ecoregions).
Distribution. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (loc(s) Aland Is).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 238 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 31 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Rasimus, 2018: 17 (on saproxylic craneflies in the Tampere region) (in Finnish).
France
Distribution. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (loc(s) Ain (01)).
Distribution. Garrin and Herbrecht, 2016: Annexe 11 (loc(s) Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Loire-Atlantique (44)).
Distribution. Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: 228 (list of craneflies captured 25-27 june 2019 in Ravin de Valbois, Doubs (25)).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020a: 39, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020b: 138 (loc(s) Nord (59) and Pas-de-Calais (62) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Tissot et al., 2021: 209 (the Diptera of the Reserves Naturelles Nationales du Doubs (25), results of Malaise trapping since 2009) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 24 (loc(s) Aisne (02) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 37 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Hauts-de-France region).
Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 360 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region).
Georgia
Distribution. Stary and Obona, 2020: 137 (loc(s); with list of localities, habitats and altitudes).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht, 1999: 135 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 162 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Distribution. Reusch and Bellstedt, 2001b: 75 (checklist Thuringen).
Distribution. Ruckert, 2005: 47, 53 (found in a study on the association with the type of source: limnokrene, rheokrene, or helokrene in Schlesig-Holstein; restricted to limnokrene sources; see paper for details, as well as Anhang A2-A10).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 5 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Wittrock, 2005: 84 (loc(s) Schleswig-Holstein).
Distribution. Ruckert et al., 2007: 56 (loc(s) Schleswig-Holstein).
Distribution. Hable et al., 2010b: 91 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 17 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Distribution. Dunk and Kraus, 2014: 170 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Dunk, 2018: 80, 96 (loc(s) Bayern with list of habtats).
Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 144 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources).
Distribution. Kehlmaier et al., 2023: 209 (loc(s) Saarland).
Great Britain
Distribution. Kramer, 1999a: 30 (loc(s) Leicestershire).
Distribution. Godfrey, 2000a: 13, 20, 23 (see paper for details of sites surveyed in Shropshire and into Wales).
Distribution. Hancock, 2000: 51 (loc(s) Scotland).
Distribution. Gibbs, 2002a: 1 (loc(s) Bristol Region).
Distribution. Hewitt et al., 2005: 37, 48 (loc(s) Cumbria).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 84 (loc(s), map).
Distribution. Kramer, 2009g: 2 (loc(s) Swansea).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 129 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr).
Distribution. Hancock, 2011a: 2 (loc(s) Coll, Southern Inner Hebrides).
Distribution. Kramer, 2011a: 3 (loc(s) Pembrokeshire).
Distribution. Kramer, 2011j: 23 (loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)).
Distribution. Kramer, 2013g: 2 (loc(s) Lancaster).
Distribution. Kramer, 2013i: 8 (checklist of species from Leigh Woods NNR, Bristol district).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 29 (overall regional checklist Lancashire and Cheshire (VC58, 59 and 60) with notes on habitats and/or regional occurrence and/or status; see paper for details).
Distribution. Lovegrove et al., 2018: 6-7 (among the cranefly species found in a survey of the historical site for Idiocera sexguttat at Stony Moors in the New Forest).
Distribution. Hancock, 2022a: 61 (loc(s) Scotland).
Distribution. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 24 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); species of damp woodland).
Distribution. Stubbs, 2024c: 34 (loc(s) Lancashire, see paper for various habitats).
Hungary
First record. Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: 169 (loc(s) Pest county).
Iceland
Distribution. Olsen in litt., 2018: (collected in Iceland in july 2018).
Ireland
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 14 (checklist).
Italy
Distribution. Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: 348, 351-352 (loc(s), annotated checklist South Tyrol [Prov. Bolzano]).
Kazakhstan
Distribution. Devyatkov, 2020a: 53 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Latvia
Distribution. Stary, 2004f: (Fauna Europaea: added Latvia).
Lithuania
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 21 (checklist).
Distribution. Gorban and Podeniene, 2022: 5 (loc(s); reared from Ash [Fraxinus excelsior]; see paper for details).
Netherlands
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 34 (checklist).
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Dek, 2020: 16 (Limoniidae and Tipulidae Nationaal Park Hollandse Duinen in 2018, Zuid-Holland).
North Macedonia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature).
Norway
Distribution. Olsen et al., 2018: 162-163 (annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
Distribution. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 215 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Distribution. Chaniecka and Wiedenska, 2006: 149 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 75 (checklist).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2008: 46 (loc(s) Parowy Janinowski nature reserve near Lodz) (in Polish).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2010: 133 (loc(s) Parku Krajobrazowego Wzniesien Lodzkich, Lodz).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2014: 14 (on the occurence of Limoniidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians; data based on Chaniecka and Wiedenska, 2006) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2017a: 23-24 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Distribution. Palaczyk and Klasa, 2021: 173 (list of Diptera in Catalogue of the fauna of the Ojcow National Park).
Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 149 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks).
Romania
Distribution. Parvu, 2004: 186 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae).
Russia
Distribution. Lantsov, 2003c: 104 (loc(s) Caucasus region, distr).
Distribution. Polevoi and Humala, 2005: 181 (RUN: list of Diptera of Vepsskaya Volost, Kareliya) (in Russian).
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: (loc(s) RUN: Arkhangelskaya oblast).
Distribution. Lantsov, 2011c: 86 (loc(s) RUN: Arkhangelskaya oblast, Nenetskiy AO, distr) (in Russian).
Distribution. Jakovlev et al., 2014: 310 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya).
Distribution. Ruchin and Pilipenko, 2015: 58 (loc(s), checklist RUC: Mordoviya Rep.).
Distribution. Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: 100 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast) (in Russian).
Distribution. Pilipenko, 2018: 17 (loc(s) Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, Krasnodarskiy kray) (in Russian).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 146-147 (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep. and Tatarstan Rep.).
Serbia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009d: 37 (loc(s) Polana area).
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Slovenia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature).
Sweden
Distribution. Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013: 62 (loc(s) Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Distribution. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 44, 47 (distributin and ecology in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Switzerland
Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 174, 282 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
Tajikistan
First record. Devyatkov, 2020c: 77 (loc(s), distr) (in Russian).
Turkey
First record. Stary and Oosterbroek, 2008: 17 (loc(s), distr).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: month(s): 7.
Belarus
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 7.
Belgium
Dek and Peeters, 2023a: month(s): 6-7.
Bulgaria
Hubenov, 2016: month(s): 7-9.
Czech Rep.
Stary et al., 2005a: month(s): 6-8.
Stary and Vonicka, 2018: month(s): 5, 7-8.
Finland
Salmela, 2008: month(s): 8.
France
Kramer, 2007a: month(s): 6.
Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: month(s): 6.
Quindroit, 2020a: month(s): 6-7.
Quindroit, 2020b: month(s): 5-7.
Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: month(s): 6-7.
Georgia
Stary and Obona, 2020: month(s): 7.
Germany
Dunk, 2018: month(s): 6.
Kehlmaier et al., 2023: month(s): 6.
Great Britain
Kramer, 1999a: month(s): 6-7.
Godfrey, 2000a: month(s): 6.
Hancock, 2000: month(s): 6-7.
Gibbs, 2002a: month(s): 7.
Hewitt et al., 2005: month(s): 6-8.
Kramer, 2009g: month(s): 7.
Hancock, 2011a: month(s): 6.
Kramer, 2011j: month(s): 6-7.
Kramer, 2013g: month(s): 7.
Hancock, 2022a: month(s): 5, 7-8.
Kramer and Morris, 2022b: month(s): 6-7.
Stubbs, 2024c: month(s): 6.
Hungary
Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: month(s): 5.
Italy
Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: month(s): 7.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: month(s): 7-8.
Netherlands
Oosterbroek and Dek, 2020: month(s): 5.
Norway
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: month(s): 6-8.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2008: month(s): 6.
Wiedenska, 2014: month(s): 7-9.
Wiedenska, 2015a: month(s): 6-8.
Wiedenska, 2017a: month(s): 7-8.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 6-8.
Romania
Parvu, 2004: month(s): 7.
Russia
Lantsov, 2003c: month(s): 8.
Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: month(s): 8.
Lantsov, 2011c: month(s): 7.
Ruchin and Pilipenko, 2015: month(s): 6.
Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: month(s): 8.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6-8.
Slovakia
Stary, 2009d: month(s): 6-7, 9.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 5-9.
Tajikistan
Devyatkov, 2020c: month(s): 7.
Turkey
Stary and Oosterbroek, 2008: month(s): 7.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: altitude: 1920 m.
Belarus
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 156 m.
Bulgaria
Hubenov, 2016: altitude: 1230-1390 m.
Hubenov, 2017: altitude: 1230-1390 m.
Hubenov, 2021a: altitude: 600-1390 m.
Hubenov, 2025b: altitude: 600-1390 m.
Georgia
Stary and Obona, 2020: altitude: 1560 m.
Hungary
Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: altitude: 338 m.
Italy
Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: altitude: 2310 m.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: altitude: 284-1654 m.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2017a: altitude: 450-1210 m.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 470-1200 m.
Russia
Lantsov, 2003c: altitude: 1320 m.
Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: altitude: 14-36 m.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 87-607 m.
Slovakia
Stary, 2009d: altitude: 560-780 m.
Tajikistan
Devyatkov, 2020c: altitude: 2440 m.
Turkey
Stary and Oosterbroek, 2008: altitude: 2000 m.

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