Details for Lipsothrix errans

Name: Lipsothrix errans (Walker, 1848) Publication: List Dipt. Colln Brit. Mus. 1: 55 (as Limnobia) Status: Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): icterica (Egger, 1863). Classification: Family Limoniidae Subfamily Limoniinae Revision: Petersen, 2015. Keys: Godfrey, 2001a (Lipsothrix Great Britain, pupa); 2002a (Lipsothrix Great Britain, larva, pupa); Hancock et al., 2009 (Lipsothrix Great Britain, pupa based on thoracic spiracular gill [pupal horn]); Hancock et al., 2015a (adults Westpalaearctic Lipsothrix); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2016c (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016i; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies) habitus male habitus male habitus male habitus male habitus female plus 11 more images of habitus, hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, wing, habitat, habitat and habitat. Distribution: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige), Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Russia: RUW, RUC. Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia. Region(s): Westpalaearctic General note: Added: Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige) (Stary and Oosterbroek, 1996). For Finland check Salmela, 2012b, 2012c, and citations below. For Norway check Olsen et al., 2018, and citations below. For Great Britain check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below. To be confirmed for Iceland (in Skidmore, 2009). Map: Hewitt and Parker, 2006 (Great Britain: Cumbria); Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire) Figure references: Habitus: Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013 (female) Wing: Slipka and Stary, 1977b; Petersen, 2015 Hypopygium: Stary and Rozkosny, 1970a; Podenas et al., 2006; Petersen, 2015; Kramer and Langlois, 2019b Immature stages Larva: Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011b; Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c Pupa: Hancock et al., 2009 (thoracic spiracular gill [pupal horn]); Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011b Miscellaneous Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013 (habitat); Lundstrom and Fritz, 2015 (habitat) Citations on biology (mainly from 2000 onward): Bulgaria Habitat. Hubenov, 2025b: suppl: 6 (annotated list Diptera high Bulgarian mts, local distr, habitats and zoogeography). Country not relevant Habitat. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English). Biology. Olsen et al., 2018: 149 (adults are found in wet woodland, often near springs and seepages; Noll (1985) observed frequently that adults were climbing high on plant stems at a spring marsh; larvae are xylophagous, living in saturated rotten wood, confined to fallen timber and coarse wooden debris in shaded woodland streams, seepages and, less frequent, peaty banks or forest floors (Beling 1886, Boardman 2007, 2016, Godfrey 2003, Hancock et al. 2009, Hewitt & Parker 2006, Kramer 2008, Krivosheina 2009, Krivosheina & Krivosheina 2011, Reusch & Hohmann 2009, Ruckert 2005, Stubbs 2003, Wittrock 2005); the period of flight is may-july, with a few records even as late as october; see table 1 for habitat information of the Norwegian locality(ties)). 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: 114, 118 (among the 101 species in a study on cranefly hotspots in unmanaged and managed forests) (in Danish). Finland Habitat. Penttinen et al., 2010: 486 (red list status incl. criteria, habitats, causes of threat, threat factors). Habitat. Salmela, 2012b: 226 (known from two intermittent headwater streams surrounded by mixed forest). Habitat. Salmela, 2012c: 4 (depending on decaying wood). Habitat. Salmela et al., 2019: 524 (red list status, habitat types, threat factors). France Habitat. Rotheray and Horsfield, 2003: 10 (in moist Fagus forest). Habitat. Kramer, 2008c: 12 (collected at a limestone wooded stream-filled gorge, the stream can be torrential with moss covered boulders, and there are seepages from the steep sides of the limstone gorge). Germany Biology. Warmke and Hering, 2000: 67-78 (investigation on the macroinvertebrate community inhabiting woody debris in low-order mountain streams in Hessen; L. errans was among the specimens studied but observations and conclusions are presented as Lipsothrix spec). 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. Reusch, 2006: 134 (Kalkquellmoor [carbonate fen complex]). Habitat. Reusch and Hohmann, 2009: 129 (from spring brooks). Great Britain Habitat. Godfrey, 2001a: 5-37 (associated with semi-submerged wood in streams). Habitat. Rotheray et al., 2001: 80 (associated with: unknown, microhabitat: decaying sapwood). Habitat. Alexander, 2002: 90 (wooded streamsides; larvae have been reared from wet decaying wood). Habitat. Boyce, 2002: 13 (review of seepage invertebrates in England, found at woodland seepages; see paper for details). Biology. Hancock, 2002: 6 (on emergence from hand-collected wood samples; see paper for details). Habitat. Godfrey, 2003a: 22-23, 43 (larvae develop in semi-submerged decorticated wood in stream; review literature). Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 101-104 (confined to fallen timber in woodland streams; larvae are xylophagous, living in saturated rotten wood in shaded streams; the paper includes further details on habitat management, monitoring techniques and examples of good/bad practice). Habitat. Heaver, 2006: 78 (tufa flushes). Habitat. Hewitt and Parker, 2006: 151-157 (immature stages in wet wood of Alnus and Fraxinus, lying in small streams, rivers, seepages and peaty bank). Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 85 (species of woodland dingle; breeds in coarse woody debris in streams and seepages). Habitat. Ismay, 2007: 11 (wet rotten fallen trees and branches in shaded woodland streams). Habitat. Kramer, 2008a: 5 (at small stream in some Birch [Betula] woodland; a wet wood feeder). Habitat. Hancock et al., 2009: 80 (found in valley-side wet woodland floors where there are seepages and small streams). Habitat. Kramer, 2009f: 1 (in a wooded river valley swept from around the many natural dams formed by fallen branches). Habitat. Cranston and Drake, 2010: 175 (Lipsothrix larvae can be found in marginal situations along flowing and standing waters [no species mentioned]). Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 29, 39 (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). Poland Habitat. Wiedenska, 2014: 12 (on the occurence of Limoniidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians, found only in Petasitetum kablikiani habitat) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English). Phenology. Wiedenska, 2015a: 52 (on the flight activity of Limoniidae in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians) (in Polish, tables also in English). Habitat. Wiedenska, 2017a: 20 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish). Romania Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 237, 246 (springs, moist soil, citing various sources). Russia 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 wood of deciduous trees]) (in Russian). Sweden Habitat. Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013: 23, 24, 49-50, 62 (on distribution, habitat preference and habitat conservation in nature reserved forest and tree habitats in Hallands County) (in Schwedish). Habitat. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 37, 44, 47 (on distribution, ecology, habitat preference and habitat conservation in a method study and species inventory in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish). Ukraine Habitat. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011b: 1087 (habitat) (in Russian). on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward): Country not relevant Immatures. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English). Key. Hancock et al., 2015a: 236 (adults Westpalaearctic species). Characters. Olsen et al., 2018: 148-149 (Among the Lipsothrix species without a pterostigma, recognized by tip of femora darkened and tip of tibiae not darkened; abdomen with a dark median dorsal stripe, in the male with sternite 7 and segment 8 darkened; fig). Characters. Podenas et al., 2019b: 567 (comparison). France Characters. Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: 234-235 (chars, figs). Great Britain Immatures. Hancock et al., 2009: 79-86 (thoracic spiracular gill [pupal horn]: morphology, function, scanning electron figs, key). Revision. Petersen, 2015: 255-256 (redescription, comparison, phylogeny, figs). Ukraine Immatures. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011b: 1087-1091 (descr larva, pupa, comparison, figs) (in Russian). on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward): Austria Distribution. Reusch and Heiss, 2012: 323-332 (loc(s) Nat. Park Gesause, see PDF for months and altitudes). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s)). Bulgaria Distribution. Hubenov, 2015: 221 (annotated list Diptera Pirin Mt, loc(s), faunistics and zoogeography). 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: 35 (checklist with summary of distr in Bulgaria, references). Distribution. Hubenov, 2025b: suppl: 6 (annotated list Diptera high Bulgarian mts, local distr, habitats and zoogeography). Country not relevant Distribution. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English). Czech Rep. Distribution. Stary et al., 2005a: 28 (loc(s)). Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s)). 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). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s)). Finland First record. Penttinen et al., 2010: 486 (red list status incl. criteria, habitats, causes of threat, threat factors). Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 226, 238 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies; only known from N). Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 31 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha). Distribution. Salmela et al., 2019: 524 (red list status, habitat types, threat factors). France Distribution. Rotheray and Horsfield, 2003: 10 (loc(s) Massane [Pyr. Or. (66)]). Distribution. Kramer, 2008c: 12 (loc(s) Savoie (73)). Distribution. Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: 228, 234-235 (list of craneflies captured 25-27 june 2019 in Ravin de Valbois, Doubs (25), loc(s), distr). Distribution. Labat, 2021: 92 (on Diptera taxa recorded along the over-all length of the Dordogne River and some of its tributaries; see paper for the locality details) (in French). Distribution. Quindroit, 2021c: 424, 426 (loc(s) Mercantour National Park, Alpes-Maritimes (06), known in France from Doubs (25) and the Pyrenees). Distribution. Tissot et al., 2021: 209 (the Diptera of the Reserves Naturelles Nationales du Doubs (25), results of Malaise trapping since 2009) (in French). Germany Distribution. Schacht, 1999: 135 (checklist Bayern). Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 162 (checklist German Bundeslander). Distribution. Warmke and Hering, 2000: 67-78 (investigation on the macroinvertebrate community inhabiting woody debris in low-order mountain streams in Hessen; L. errans was among the specimens studied but observations and conclusions are presented as Lipsothrix spec). 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. Reusch, 2006: 134 (loc(s) Bayern). Distribution. Ruckert et al., 2007: 56 (loc(s) Schleswig-Holstein). Distribution. Reusch and Hohmann, 2009: 129 (loc(s) Sachsen-Anhalt). Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 17 (checklist Diptera Bayern). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s) Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen). Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 144 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources). Great Britain Distribution. Godfrey, 2000a: 10 (widespread but uncommon). Distribution. Godfrey, 2001a: 5-37 (recorded from sites in Shropshire and just over the country border in Montgmeryshire; see paper for details). Distribution. Godfrey, 2001c: 154-155 (swept and reared from several sites, exhibited from Tiek Wood, Buildwas, Salop). Distribution. Alexander, 2002: 90 (distr). Distribution. Hancock, 2002: 6 (quite uncommon in the north of Britain). Distribution. Godfrey, 2003a: 22-23, 43 (loc(s), distr, review literature). Distribution. Stubbs, 2003: 103 (distr in GB). Distribution. Crossley, 2004: 155 (loc(s) Sheffield). Distribution. Heaver, 2006: 78 (loc(s) Lancashire). Distribution. Hewitt and Parker, 2006: 151-157 (loc(s), distr, map). Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 85 (loc(s), map). Distribution. Ismay, 2007: 11 (distr, see UK BAP webpage). Distribution. Kramer, 2008a: 5 (loc(s) Scotland). Distribution. Kramer, 2008b: 7 (loc(s) Wales). Distribution. Kramer, 2009b: 5 (Aviemore area). Distribution. Kramer, 2009f: 1 (loc(s) Yorkshire). Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 129 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr). Distribution. Boardman, 2012b: 1 (loc(s) Shropshire). Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s) Angus, Devon, Gwynedd and Perthshire). Distribution. Boardman, 2017: 3 (loc(s) Shropshire). Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 29, 39 (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. Kramer, 2018f: 1 (loc(s) Staffordshire). Hungary First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 148-149 (loc(s) Baranya and Vas). Italy Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s)). Lithuania Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 21 (checklist). Norway First record. Olsen et al., 2018: 148, 162-163 (loc(s) TEI and VAY; distr; annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions). Poland Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 75 (checklist). Distribution. Wiedenska, 2014: 12 (on the occurence of Limoniidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians, found only in Petasitetum kablikiani habitat) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English). Distribution. Wiedenska, 2017a: 20 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish). Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 144 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks). Romania Distribution. Parvu, 2006: 261 (loc(s)). Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae). Russia Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 149 (loc(s) RUC: Moskovskaya oblast). Slovakia Distribution. Stary, 2009d: 37 (loc(s) Polana area). Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). Slovenia Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 255 (loc(s)). Sweden Distribution. Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013: 23, 24, 49-50, 62 (on distribution, habitat preference and habitat conservation in nature reserved forest and tree habitats in Hallands County) (in Schwedish). Distribution. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 37, 44, 47 (on distribution, ecology, habitat preference and habitat conservation in a method study and species inventory in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish). Switzerland Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 175, 283 (map, vertical distr per thermic level). Ukraine Distribution. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011b: 1087 (loc(s)). on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward): Austria Petersen, 2015: month(s): 7, 9. Bulgaria Hubenov, 2015: month(s): 6. Hubenov, 2016: month(s): 6. Czech Rep. Stary et al., 2005a: month(s): 6-7. Petersen, 2015: month(s): 6. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: month(s): 6-7. Denmark Petersen, 2015: month(s): 7. Finland Salmela, 2012b: month(s): 7. France Rotheray and Horsfield, 2003: month(s): 5. Kramer, 2008c: month(s): 5. Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: month(s): 6. Germany Petersen, 2015: month(s): 6-7. Great Britain Godfrey, 2000a: month(s): 6. Godfrey, 2001a: month(s): 5. Godfrey, 2001c: month(s): 5. Crossley, 2004: month(s): 5. Hewitt and Parker, 2006: month(s): 6. Kramer, 2008a: month(s): 6. Kramer, 2008b: month(s): 7. Kramer, 2009b: month(s): 6. Kramer, 2009f: month(s): 5. Petersen, 2015: month(s): 6-7, 10. Boardman, 2017: month(s): 5. Kramer, 2018f: month(s): 6. Hungary Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 5, 7. Italy Petersen, 2015: month(s): 5. Poland Wiedenska, 2014: month(s): 6. Wiedenska, 2015a: month(s): 6-7. Wiedenska, 2017a: month(s): 6-7. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 6. Romania Parvu, 2006: month(s): 6. Russia Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6. Slovakia Stary, 2009d: month(s): 5-6. Slovenia Petersen, 2015: month(s): 6. Switzerland Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 6-9. on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward): Bulgaria Hubenov, 2015: altitude: 1230-1350 m. Hubenov, 2016: altitude: 1147 m. Hubenov, 2017: altitude: 1230-1350 m. Hubenov, 2021a: altitude: 1147-1350 m. Hubenov, 2025b: altitude: 1147-1350 m. France Labat, 2021: altitude: 100-1357 m. Quindroit, 2021c: altitude: 1400 m. Germany Reusch and Hohmann, 2009: altitude: 550 m. Petersen, 2015: altitude: 1250 m. Great Britain Hewitt and Parker, 2006: altitude: 80-350 m. Petersen, 2015: altitude: 152-457 m. Poland Wiedenska, 2017a: altitude: 880-1050 m. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 500-750 m. Russia Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 220 m. Slovakia Stary, 2009d: altitude: 630-780 m.