Details for Erioptera (Erioptera) squalida

Name: Erioptera (Erioptera) squalida Loew, 1871 Publication: Beschr. europ. Dipt. 2: 5 (as Erioptera) Status: Recognized taxon. Classification: Family Limoniidae Subfamily Chioneinae Keys: Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016j; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies) habitus male habitus male habitus male habitus male habitus female plus 6 more images of hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, ovipositor and wing. Distribution: Austria, Belgium, Czech Rep., Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine; Russia: RUW, RUC. Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia. Region(s): Westpalaearctic General note: Added: Slovenia (Lackschewitz, 1940a), Ireland (Ashe et al., 1991). For Finland check Salmela, 2012b, 2012c, and citations below. For Great Britain and Ireland check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below. Removed: Italy (not confirmed by Stary and Oosterbroek, 1996). Map: Ashe et al., 2007b (Ireland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire) Figure references: Hypopygium: Stary, 1974f; Kramer and Withers, 2007; Kramer and Morris, 2022a Citations on biology (mainly from 2000 onward): France Habitat. Kramer and Withers, 2007: 158-159 (citing Przhiboro, 2003). Habitat. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (adults were collected along lake margins). Habitat. Quindroit, 2022a: 17, 26 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French). Great Britain Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 45 (the larval stage is able to pierce the underwater air cells of aquatic plants like Reed sweet-grass, Glyceria maxima; remain underwater during the larval and pupal stages). Habitat. Kramer, 2007b: 36 (a good quality indicator for old wet pasture). Habitat. Cranston and Drake, 2010: 175 (Erioptera larvae can be found in marginal situations along standing waters [no species mentioned]). Habitat. Cranston et al., 2010b: 232-233 (larva and pupa are adapted to pierce the tissues of aquatic plants to extract the gas from the vascular system). Habitat. Kramer, 2011j: 14, 24-25 (a local species of marshland and old wet pasture). Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 25, 33 (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). Ireland Habitat. Ashe et al., 2007b: 362, 372 (favours areas of emergent vegetation in ponds, lakes and canals). Russia Biology. Przhiboro, 2003: 365 (habitat: discussed in detail, larvae found developing only in the littoral zone of an eutrophic lake: in the layer of turf of dense stands with predominating emergent macrophytes at 0,1-1,0 m depth; larvae and pupae are root piercing; larvae are detritivorous and the respiration is through the body surface, through spiracles, and by root piercing; rearing; for details see paper and also Przhiboro, 2000). on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward): Great Britain Characters. Kramer and Morris, 2022a: 8 (diagnosis, figs). on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward): Czech Rep. Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). Denmark Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 149 (checklist). Finland Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 237 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies). Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 25 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha). France Distribution. Kramer and Withers, 2007: 158-159, 162 (loc(s) Ain (01)). First record. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (loc(s) Ain (01)). Distribution. Withers, 2008: 137 (loc(s) Ain (01)). Distribution. Quindroit, 2022a: 17, 26 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French). Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 358 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region). Germany Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 157 (checklist German Bundeslander). Distribution. Reusch and Bellstedt, 2001b: 73 (checklist Thuringen). Great Britain Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 45 (loc(s), map). Distribution. Kramer, 2011j: 14 (loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)). Distribution. Stubbs, 2013: 26 (loc(s) Lancaster). Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera). Distribution. Drake, 2016: 20 (study on the relative importance to Diptera of pasture and ditch margins on Catcott Reserve, Somerset). Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 25, 33 (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 and Morris, 2022a: 8 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)). Ireland Distribution. Ashe et al., 2007b: 362, 372-373, 403 (review Irish records, map). Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 9 (checklist). Lithuania Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 20 (checklist). Netherlands Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 28 (checklist). Norway First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 108 (loc(s) Buskerud). Poland Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 75 (checklist). Romania Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae). Russia Distribution. Przhiboro, 2003: 365 (loc(s) NW Russia). Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 108 (loc(s) RUC: Moskovskaya oblast). Slovakia Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). Slovenia Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature). Spain Distribution. Eiroa and Baez, 2002a: 54 (checklist). on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward): France Kramer and Withers, 2007: month(s): 6. Kramer, 2007a: month(s): 6. Quindroit, 2022a: month(s): 7. Great Britain Kramer, 2011j: month(s): 6, 9. Stubbs, 2013: month(s): 7. Ireland Ashe et al., 2007b: month(s): 6-7. Norway Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 7. Russia Przhiboro, 2003: month(s): 7. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 7. on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward): Norway Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 50 m. Russia Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 125 m.