Details for Rhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata
Name:Rhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata Schiner, 1864
Publication:Fauna Austr. Dipt. 2: 564 (as Rhipidia)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): sibirica Alexander, 1925.
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limoniinae
Descriptive note:Russia: RUC (Voronezhskaya oblast)
Keys:Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 (Limoniinae Mongolia and nearby); Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2014c (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016h; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
Variant spelling(s):unisenata
Rhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata: habitus - maleRhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata: habitus - maleRhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata: body part(s) - antennaRhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata: body part(s) - antennaRhipidia (Rhipidia) uniseriata uniseriata: body part(s) - head and antenna
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plus 10 more images of hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, wing, wing, habitat, habitat, habitat, habitat and habitat.
Distribution:Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (European part: Istanbul), Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC, RUE, North Caucasus; Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey (Asiatic part: see citations for provinces);; Russia: WS (Altay, Tuva, Novosibirskaya oblast), FE (Khabarovskiy kray, Primorskiy kray, Sakhalin (Kuril Is)); Kazakhstan (east); Mongolia.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic
General note:Added: RUN (Kareliya) (Yakovlev and Polevoi, 1997). 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. Removed: Italy (not confirmed by Stary and Oosterbroek, 1996).
Map:Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland)
Biology:Alexander, 1919e, 1920r (habitat).
Figure
references:
Head: Podenas et al., 2006 (antenna); Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 (antenna)
Wing: Podenas et al., 2006; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007
Hypopygium: Podenas et al., 2006; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007

Immature stages
Larva: Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
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: 150 (a species of woodlands, parklands, carr, old orchards, hedgerows, etc.; larvae feed on decaying deciduous wood and on fungi, notably Russula nigricans, and are apparently easily found by rearing from rot holes (Alexander 2002, Chandler 2010, Gibbs 2005, Godfrey 2010, Halme et al. 2012, Kramer & Withers 2007, Krivosheina 2008, 2009, 2011, Krivosheina & Krivosheina 2011); the period of flight is may-august; see table 1 for habitat information of the Norwegian locality(ties)).
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
Habitat. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (habitats Aland Is).
Habitat. Halme et al., 2012: 507 (part of a study on saproxylic nematoceran communities occupying different parts of decaying fallen Aspen trunks in a boreal forest in central Finland).
Habitat. Salmela, 2012c: 13 (classified as a saproxylic and/or fungivorous species).
Habitat. Rasimus, 2018: 17 (on saproxylic craneflies in the Tampere region) (in Finnish).
France
Habitat. Kramer and Withers, 2007: 160, 163 (bred from rot hole debris).
Habitat. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (adults were collected in Alnus carr).
Habitat. Withers, 2008: 133 (rot-hole species).
Biology. Quindroit, 2020a: 40, 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: 142 (loc(s) Nord (59) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit et al., 2021: 256-259 (collected during an entomological inventory in the canopy of Oak [Quercus] stands; forestieres, saproxyliques; see paper for details on habitat and forests).
Great Britain
Habitat. Kramer, 1999a: 31 (sites fed by a spring or flush).
Habitat. Howe et al., 2001: 145-146.
Habitat. Alexander, 2002: 90 (old broadleaved woodland and hedgerows; larvae in dead decaying timber and rot-holes of Ulmus, Fagus, Betula, Quercus).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 81 (a saproxylic species that should be re-classified as Notable since far more records have been made in recent years; there seems no particular affinity with wood pasture).
Habitat. Gibbs, 2005: 71 (reared from Quercus rot-hole material).
Habitat. Chandler, 2010c: 431 (overview of known fungus associations: Russula nigricans, usually in rotten wood).
Habitat. Godfrey, 2010: 259 (well recorded from parklands and are more esily found by rearing from rot holes).
Habitat. Kramer, 2011j: 23-25 (a rare wet woodland species).
Habitat. Alexander et al., 2014: 224-225 (saproxylic species, found in a tradional orchard in Worcestershire).
Habitat. Alexander and Jones, 2016: 92-94 (among species from cavity emergence trapping from historic Ash [Fraxinus] pollards at a Cotswold wood pasture, Worcestershire, one of the most numerous species trapped, indicating that the veteran Ash trees are supporting an important population of this rare fly; review of trees and type of wood from which the species is recorded: Apple [Malus], Ash [Fraxinus], Beech [Betula], Elm [Ulmus], Horse Chestnut [Aesculus], Lime [Tilia], Oak [Quercus], Sycamore [Platanus], Bay Willow [Salix pentandra]).
Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 29, 40 (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. Hewitt et al., 2017: 65, 71 (loc(s) Borrowdale, Cumbria, review records and habitat requirements: old broad-leaved woodland and hedgerows, its larvae develop in dead and decaying wood; recorded from Borrowdale Ash [Fraxinus] pollards; see paper for details).
Habitat. Wolton, 2017: 3 (emerging from decaying blocks of wood from the base of an Ash [Fraxinus] tree).
Habitat. Showers, 2020c: 6 (loc(s) Yardley Chase, Northamptonshire, taken in a flight interception trap set on a decaying Oak [Quercus] or Ash [Fraxinus] tree).
Habitat. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 27 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); woodland species).
Poland
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2014: 14 (on the occurence of Limoniidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians, found only in Dentario glandulosae-Fagetum allietosum habitat) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English).
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2017a: 24 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Russia
Habitat. Krivosheina, N.P., 2008: 781 (recorded in fruit bodies of Russula nigricans and in decaying wood (citing Chandler, 1978); in Russia larvae were found in the core of fallen decomposing trunks of leaved trees: Betula, Tilia and Populus).
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) (in Russian).
Habitat. Krivosheina, N.P., 2011a: 105-112 (larvae in dust under Oak [Quercus] and Birch [Betula] bark lying on the ground, also in loose wood, further data are given as well as a review of the literature).
Habitat. Polevoi et al., 2018: supplementary species list: emerged from fallen Aspens [Populus tremula] in Kivach Nature Reserve, Kareliya).
Habitat. Dvorak et al., 2022a: 134 (on Diptera collected in beer traps in the Volga Region, collected in a decidous forests).
Sweden
Habitat. Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013: 23, 63 (on distribution, habitat preference and habitat conservation in nature reserved forest and tree habitats in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
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).
Characters. Olsen et al., 2018: 150 (flagellar segments in the male with one outgrowth, in the female serrate; winglength 8–10 mm, wing with three spots along the front margin, no spot between the base of the wing and the origin of vein Rs; femora with at least the apical half darkened; fig).
Mongolia
Key. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007: 78 (key, figs).
Russia
Immatures. Krivosheina, N.P., 2011a: 105-112 (descr, figs, larva and pupa; listing and reviewing discriminating characters with uniseriata, based on own observation and citing Brindle, 1967, and Reusch, 1988).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Azerbaijan
First record. Obona et al., 2019b: 284 (new and interesting records of Diptera from Azerbaijan and Georgia).
Distribution. Snegovaya, 2021: 1140 (checklist with details on distr in Azerbaijan).
Belgium
Distribution. Peeters in litt., 2016: (among Malaisetrap material from Jardin Massart, Brussels).
Distribution. Dek and Peeters, 2023a: 140 (loc(s) Botanic Garden Jean Massart, Brussels-Capital Region, very rare in Belgium, the Jardin being the only recent locality).
Bulgaria
Distribution. Hubenov, 2018a: 17 (on the Diptera of the Vitosha Mt; see paper for details on vegetation belts and local distr).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2021a: 38 (checklist with summary of distr in Bulgaria, references).
Country not relevant
Distribution. Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c: 1-294 (larva: loc(s), descr, figs, biology, key) (in Russian, key also in English).
Croatia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 448 (review literature).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary et al., 2005a: 30 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Stary, 2009c: 96 (loc(s) Bohemia).
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 151 (checklist).
Estonia
Distribution. Stary, 2004f: (Fauna Europaea: added Estonia).
Finland
Distribution. Stary and Salmela, 2004: 47 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2007b: 46 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (loc(s) Aland Is).
Distribution. Halme et al., 2012: 507 (part of a study on saproxylic nematoceran communities occupying different parts of decaying fallen Aspen trunks in a boreal forest in central Finland).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 239 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 31 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2015: 107 (list of localities in extensive report on malaise-trapping of insects in conservation areas in Lapland in 2012–2014) (in Finnish).
Distribution. Rasimus, 2018: 17 (on saproxylic craneflies in the Tampere region) (in Finnish).
France
Distribution. Rotheray and Horsfield, 2003: 10, 11 (loc(s) Massane [Pyr. Or. (66)]).
Distribution. Kramer and Withers, 2007: 160, 163 (loc(s) Ain (01)).
Distribution. Withers, 2008: 133, 137 (loc(s) Ain (01)).
Distribution. Garrin and Herbrecht, 2016: Annexe 11 (loc(s) Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Loire-Atlantique (44)).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020a: 40, 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: 142 (loc(s) Nord (59) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit et al., 2021: 257 (recorded for Cher (18)).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 37 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Hauts-de-France region).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2022a: 25-28 (additions to the annotated list of the Tipuloidea of Pays de la Loire as given in Quindroit, 2020a).
Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 360 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht, 1999: 135 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 163 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 6 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Hable et al., 2010b: 92 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 18 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 146 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources).
Great Britain
Distribution. Kramer, 1999a: 31 (loc(s) Leicestershire).
Distribution. Howe et al., 2001: 145-146 (loc(s) Dorset).
Distribution. Alexander, 2002: 90 (distr).
Distribution. Gibbs, 2005: 71 (loc(s) Glauchestershire).
Distribution. Kramer, 2007b: 35 (loc(s) Leicestershire).
Distribution. Kramer, 2007b: 35, 36 (a good quality indicator for wet woodland).
Distribution. Kramer, 2011j: 23 (loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)).
Distribution. Alexander et al., 2014: 224-225 (saproxylic species, found in a tradional orchard in Worcestershire).
Distribution. Alexander and Jones, 2016: 93 (among species from cavity emergence trapping from historic Ash [Fraxinus] pollards at a Cotswold wood pasture, Worcestershire, distr).
Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 29, 40 (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. Hewitt et al., 2017: 65, 71 (loc(s) Borrowdale, Cumbria, review records and habitat requirements: old broad-leaved woodland and hedgerows, its larvae develop in dead and decaying wood; recorded from Borrowdale Ash [Fraxinus] pollards; see paper for details).
Distribution. Wolton et al., 2017: 92 (loc(s) Devon, conservation status).
Distribution. Showers, 2020c: 6 (loc(s) Yardley Chase, Northamptonshire, taken in a flight interception trap set on a decaying Oak [Quercus] or Ash [Fraxinus] tree).
Distribution. Cunningham, 2022: 28 (loc(s) Dartmoor, Devon).
Distribution. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 27 (diagnosis).
Distribution. Kramer and Morris, 2022b: 27 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); woodland species).
Hungary
Distribution. Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: 171 (loc(s) Hajdu-Bihar and Pest counties; confirmation for Hungary).
Kazakhstan
First record. Devyatkov, 2020a: 54 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Lithuania
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 24 (checklist).
Netherlands
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 34 (checklist).
North Macedonia
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 229-230 (loc(s)).
Norway
First record. Olsen et al., 2018: 150, 164 (loc(s) in three regions; distr; annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
Poland
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 76 (checklist).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2010: 135 (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, found only in Dentario glandulosae-Fagetum allietosum habitat) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2015b: 56 (loc(s) near Lodz).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2017a: 24 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 150 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks).
Romania
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 247 (no details).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae).
Russia
Distribution. Humala and Polevoi, 2008: 133 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya).
Distribution. Krivosheina, N.P., 2011a: 106 (loc(s) RUC: Voronezhskaya oblast and Primorskiy kray).
Distribution. Jakovlev et al., 2014: 310 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya).
Distribution. Lantsov, 2016: 165-170 (on craneflies from Arkhyz, Karachay-Cherkessia Rep., North Caucasus) (in Russian).
Distribution. Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: 100 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast) (in Russian).
Distribution. Pilipenko, 2017a: 389 (investigation of Tipuloidea of the Altay, first record for Altay) (in Russian).
Distribution. Polevoi et al., 2018: supplementary species list: emerged from fallen Aspens [Populus tremula] in Kivach Nature Reserve, Kareliya).
Distribution. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 96 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, citing various authors) (in Russian).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 230 (loc(s) RUE: Tatarstan Rep.)
Distribution. Dvorak et al., 2022a: 134 (on Diptera collected in beer traps in the Volga Region, collected in a decidous forests).
Distribution. Devyatkov and Dubatolov, 2025: 37 (loc(s) Khabarovskiy kray, Bolshekhekhtsirsky Nature Reserve, distr) (in Russian).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009d: 38 (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: 23, 63 (on distribution, habitat preference and habitat conservation in nature reserved forest and tree habitats in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Switzerland
Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 180, 336 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
Turkey
First record. Ozgul and Koc, 2012: 750 (first record for Turkey, prov. Afyonkarahisar and Usak).
Distribution. Koc et al., 2016: 12 (provinces Marmara region).
Distribution. Akpinar and Ozgul, 2023: 55 (loc(s) Aksaray).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Azerbaijan
Obona et al., 2019b: month(s): 9.
Belgium
Dek and Peeters, 2023a: month(s): 6.
Czech Rep.
Stary et al., 2005a: month(s): 5-7.
Stary, 2009c: month(s): 5.
France
Rotheray and Horsfield, 2003: month(s): 5.
Kramer and Withers, 2007: month(s): 5-7.
Quindroit, 2020a: month(s): 6.
Quindroit, 2020b: month(s): 5.
Great Britain
Kramer, 1999a: month(s): 6-7.
Gibbs, 2005: month(s): 5.
Kramer, 2011j: month(s): 6-7.
Kramer and Morris, 2022b: month(s): 5-10.
Hungary
Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: month(s): 5-8.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: month(s): 6-7.
North Macedonia
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6.
Norway
Olsen et al., 2018: month(s): 7-8.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2014: month(s): 7.
Wiedenska, 2017a: month(s): 7.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 6.
Russia
Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: month(s): 6.
Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: month(s): 6.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6.
Dvorak et al., 2022a: month(s): 7-8.
Devyatkov and Dubatolov, 2025: month(s): 6.
Slovakia
Stary, 2009d: month(s): 6.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 6-8.
Turkey
Ozgul and Koc, 2012: month(s): 5-7.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Azerbaijan
Obona et al., 2019b: altitude: 1454 m.
Bulgaria
Hubenov, 2018a: altitude: 870-880 m.
Hubenov, 2021a: altitude: 160-800 m.
Hungary
Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: altitude: 380-450 m.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: altitude: 300-1170 m.
North Macedonia
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 990 m.
Poland
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 700-1000 m.
Russia
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 50-100 m.
Devyatkov and Dubatolov, 2025: altitude: 100 m.
Turkey
Ozgul and Koc, 2012: altitude: 958-1057 m.

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