| Name: | Lipsothrix nervosa Edwards, 1938 | | Publication: | Trans. Soc. Brit. Ent. 5: 103 (as Lipsothrix) | | Status: | Recognized taxon. | | Classification: | Family Limoniidae Subfamily Limoniinae
| | Revision: | Petersen, 2015. | | Descriptive note: | Type-material: 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 | body part(s) head and antenna | body part(s) head and thorax |
plus 3 more images of hypopygium, hypopygium and wing. | | | | Distribution: | Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland. | | Region(s): | Westpalaearctic | | General note: | Added: Germany (Stary et al., 1998), Switzerland (Stary and Geiger, 1998a). For Great Britain check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below. | | Map: | Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire); Kramer, 2013i (Great Britain) | Figure references: | Habitus: Quindroit, 2022a (male) Wing: Petersen, 2015 Hypopygium: Godfrey, 2001a; Petersen, 2015 Other figures: ; Kramer and Morris, 2022b (head, antennae, thorax)
Immature stages Pupa: Hancock et al., 2009 (thoracic spiracular gill [pupal horn])
| | | | Citations | | | Belgium Habitat. Tack et al., 2021: 147 (loc(s) Antwerpen, alle taxa biodiversiteit inventarisatie Bos t Ename, op/in beschaduwd dun dood hout in nat bos (in Dutch), see paper for description; first published record for Belgium). | | Country not relevant Habitat. Bloxham, 2019: 168 (prefers wet woodland seepages and trickles, loc(s) West Bromwich). | | France Habitat. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021b: 7 (loc(s) Nord (59); see paper for habitat description) (in French). Habitat. Quindroit, 2021a: 36, 39 (loc(s), resultats d une campagne de piegeage dans le Pas-de-Calais (62), second record for France; see paper for details on habitat). Habitat. Quindroit, 2022a: 22, 28 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French). | | Great Britain Habitat. Godfrey, 2000a: 7-16, 20, 23 (associated with semi-submerged wood in streams). Biology. Godfrey, 2001a: 5-47 (habitat: associated with semi-submerged wood in streams; biology). Habitat. Howe and Howe, 2001: 35, 40-45 (wet woodlands). Habitat. Alexander, 2002: 90 (woodland seepages, especially in carr; larvae probably in lying rotting wood). Habitat. Boyce, 2002: 13, 28 (review of seepage invertebrates in England, found at woodland seepages; see paper for details). Habitat. Godfrey, 2003a: 20-23, 43 (larvae develop in semi-submerged decorticated wood in stream; review literature). Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 101-102 (confined to wet seepage woodland in Salix and Alnus carr, and also in woodland with Fraxinus and various other trees (excluding pure Quercus?); larvae are xylophagous, living in saturated rotten wood, primarilly small branches, situated in or on seepages; the paper includes further details on habitat management, monitoring techniques and examples of good/bad practice). Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 85 (species of woodland dingle; larvae use a range of soaked timber around streams and seepage). Habitat. Ismay, 2007: 11 (wet rotting twigs and branches in seepages in deciduous woodland, believed to require continuous shade and a constant supply of rotting timber). Habitat. Drake, 2008b: 168 (collected in a small wet woodland with base rich seepages in Dorset). Habitat. Cranston and Drake, 2010: 175 (Lipsothrix larvae can be found in marginal situations along flowing and standing waters [no species mentioned]). Biology. Drake, 2011a: 12, 13, 16, 24 (among the Diptera from a wet Alder [Alnus] wood in Devon, showing a single generation with a peak from mid may to late june). Habitat. Kramer, 2011f: 2 (at a chalk-pit stream and marsh). Habitat. Kramer, 2011j: 23 (a rare species; the larvae feed in wet wood of tree branches in streams). Habitat. Stubbs, 2015: 27 (loc(s) Nottingham with general habitat description). 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). Habitat. Kramer, 2018f: 1 (collected from a willow [Salix] carr). Habitat. Boardman, 2020a: 1 (loc(s) Staffordshire, in area of reed fen, swamp, and fringed pool). Habitat. Wolton and Field, 2021: 212 (study on the impact of cattle on the insect fauna of woodlands; Diptera were sampled from trampled and untrampled areas of wet woodland using emergence traps; see paper for details). Habitat. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 25 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); larvae feed on rotting wood in tree branches in streams). | | Italy Habitat. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 150 (brook). | | | | Country not relevant Key. Hancock et al., 2015a: 233, 236 (adults Westpalaearctic species, comparison). | | Great Britain Characters. Godfrey, 2000a: 7-16, 20, 23 (characters). Immatures. Hancock et al., 2009: 79-86 (thoracic spiracular gill [pupal horn]: morphology, function, scanning electron figs, key). Revision. Petersen, 2015: 265-267 (revision, type-mat, comparison, phylogeny, figs). Characters. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 25 (diagnosis, figs). | | Switzerland Taxonomy. Podenas et al., 2006: 10, 283 (status and systematic position not clear, not illustrated). | | | | Austria First record. Petersen, 2015: 266 (loc(s) Oberosterreich). | | Belgium Distribution. Peeters in litt., 2016: (among Malaisetrap material from Jardin Massart, Brussels). Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 149-150 (loc(s) Antwerpen [see photo(s) above]). First record. Tack et al., 2021: 147 (loc(s) Antwerpen, alle taxa biodiversiteit inventarisatie Bos t Ename, op/in beschaduwd dun dood hout in nat bos (in Dutch), see paper for description; first published record for Belgium). Distribution. Dek and Peeters, 2023a: 138 (loc(s) Botanic Garden Jean Massart, Brussels-Capital Region, first record in Belgium in 2013, until now from 6 widespread localities). | | Country not relevant Distribution. Bloxham, 2019: 168 (prefers wet woodland seepages and trickles, loc(s) West Bromwich). | | France First record. Kramer and Langlois, 2019a: 76 (record(s) Ravin de Valbois, Doubs (25)). Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021b: 7 (loc(s) Nord (59); see paper for habitat description) (in French). Distribution. Quindroit, 2021a: 36, 39 (loc(s), resultats d une campagne de piegeage dans le Pas-de-Calais (62), second record for France; see paper for details on habitat). 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: 37 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Hauts-de-France region). Distribution. Quindroit, 2022a: 20 (loc(s) Pas-de-Calais (62) (subscription fig 6)). Distribution. Quindroit, 2022a: 22, 28 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French). Distribution. Lemoine and Quindroit, 2023: 9 (loc(s) Haute-Marne (52)). Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 360 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region). | | Germany Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 162 (checklist German Bundeslander). | | Great Britain Distribution. Godfrey, 2000a: 7-16, 20, 23 (loc(s), distr). Distribution. Godfrey, 2001a: 5-47 (recorded from sites in Shropshire and just over the country border in Montgmeryshire; see paper for details). Distribution. Godfrey, 2001c: 155 (swept and reared from several sites, exhibited from Cuckoopen Coppice, Hopton Cangeford, Salop). Distribution. Howe and Howe, 2001: 35, 40-45 (see paper for details on loc(s) in which of the eight vice-counties visited). Distribution. Alexander, 2002: 90 (distr). Distribution. Boyce, 2002: 13, 28 (review of seepage invertebrates in England, found at woodland seepages; see paper for details). Distribution. Godfrey, 2003a: 20-23, 43 (loc(s), distr, review literature). Distribution. Stubbs, 2003: 102 (distr in GB). Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 85 (loc(s), map). Distribution. Ismay, 2007: 11 (distr, see UK BAP webpage). Distribution. Drake, 2011a: 24 (loc(s) Devon). Distribution. Kramer, 2011a: 3 (loc(s) Pembrokeshire). Distribution. Kramer, 2011f: 2 (loc(s) Devon). Distribution. Kramer, 2011j: 23 (loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)). Distribution. Boardman, 2012b: 1 (loc(s) Shropshire). Distribution. Kramer, 2013i: 8, 11 (checklist of species from Leigh Woods NNR, Bristol district, map GB). Distribution. Petersen, 2015: 265-266 (type-loc(s) Devon, loc(s) Carmarthenshire, Devon, Greater London, Monmoutshire, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Shropshire, Sussex and Surrey [written out here because the paper mentiones mostly localities]). Distribution. Stubbs, 2015: 27 (loc(s) Nottingham with general habitat description). Distribution. Wolton and Drake, 2015: 10 (loc(s) Devon). 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). Distribution. Boardman, 2020a: 1 (loc(s) Staffordshire, in area of reed fen, swamp, and fringed pool). Distribution. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 25 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); larvae feed on rotting wood in tree branches in streams). | | Hungary First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 150 (loc(s) Baranya). | | Italy First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 150 (loc(s) Calabria). | | Switzerland Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 10, 283 (map, vertical distr per thermic level). | | | | Austria Petersen, 2015: month(s): 6. | | Belgium Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6. Dek and Peeters, 2023a: month(s): 6. | | France Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021b: month(s): 5. Quindroit, 2022a: month(s): 5. Quindroit, 2022a: month(s): 6. Lemoine and Quindroit, 2023: month(s): 5. | | Great Britain Godfrey, 2000a: month(s): 6. Godfrey, 2001a: month(s): 5. Godfrey, 2001c: month(s): 5. Howe and Howe, 2001: month(s): 6. Kramer, 2011f: month(s): 7. Kramer, 2011j: month(s): 5. Petersen, 2015: month(s): 5-7. Stubbs, 2015: month(s): 7. Kramer, 2018f: month(s): 6. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: month(s): 6-7. | | Hungary Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 5. | | Italy Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 5. | | Switzerland Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 7. | | | | Italy Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 1035 m. |
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