Details for Lipsothrix nervosa
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)
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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])
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
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).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
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).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
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).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
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.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Italy
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 1035 m.

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