Details for Tipula (Lunatipula) peliostigma
Name:Tipula (Lunatipula) peliostigma Schummel, 1833
Publication:Beitr. Ent., Breslau 3: 90 (as Tipula)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): pelopea Mannheims, 1965; phoenissa Mannheims, 1965.
Classification:Family Tipulidae
Subfamily Tipulinae
Descriptive note:Descriptive note in Theischinger, 1982. Lectotype designation: Mannheims, 1965a.
Keys:Podeniene, 2000 (Lunatipula larva Lithuania); Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2016b (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016d; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece (islands: listed at the end), Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (European part: Istanbul, Kirklareli), Ukraine; Russia: RUW, RUC, RUE, RUS, North Caucasus; Morocco; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey (Asiatic part: widespread in west and south), Lebanon, Israel;; Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan. (Greek islands: known from Euboea [Evia], Kerkyra [Corfu], Mykonos, Naxos, Samos, Samothraki, Serifos, Skyros, Thasos, Tinos; Siros, in Theowald and Oosterbroek, 1990b, refers to Skyros.)
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic
General note:Added: Morocco (Middle Atlas) (Eiroa, 1990c), Ireland (Feeney, 1968; Chandler, 1998), Lebanon (Museum Naturalis, Leiden), Bulgaria (Nedelkov, 1912, Popov, 1999). For Finland check Salmela, 2012b. For Spain check Eiroa and Carles-Tolra, 2019, and citations below. For Portugal check Oosterbroek et al., 2020, and citations below. For Great Britain and Ireland check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below. For Morocco check Kettani et al., 2022b, and citations below.
Map:Ashe et al., 2007a (Ireland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire); Kramer, 2014d (Great Britain)
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references:
Habitus: Heiss, 2020 (female, from www.commanster.eu)
Hypopygium: Theischinger, 1982; Kramer and Morris, 2021b

Immature stages
Larva: Podeniene, 2000; Podeniene, 2003a
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
France
Habitat. Tillier and Dehalleux, 2019: 160 (espece des milieux semi-ouverts (haies, lisieres)).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020a: 21, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of Pays de la Loire: Mayenne (53), Sarthe (72), Loire-Atlantique (44), Maine-et-Loire (49) and Vendee (85)) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020b: 128 (loc(s) Pas-de-Calais (62) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Germany
Habitat. Schacht et al., 2001: 427 (abbreviated habitat information).
Biology. Heiss and Flugel, 2015: 271, 277-278 (loc(s) Hessen; review local distribution and biology, citing various authors
Habitat. Heiss, 2017a: 563, 568, 571 (loc(s) Dinkelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg and table with details on presence in the various biotop-groups).
Great Britain
Habitat. Alexander, 2002: 89 (larvae occasionally under bark on decaying wood, more usually in birds nests).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 8-10 (a high proportion of records come from hedgerows, most of which could judged as ancient or within ancient hedgerow districts; a few records come from small copses, usually in ancient hedgerow districts; most pertinent is that this is not a woodland species; larvae have been found in old birds nests in hedgerows, but also in soft rotten wood under the bark of a fallen trunk of a deciduous tree; the paper includes further details on habitat preferences, monitoring techniques, etc).
Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 23 (larvae have been found in bird’s nests, hence the vernacular name Birds-nest Tipula, agricultural regions are said to be the most likely area).
Habitat. Hutson, 2010: 324 (associated with bird nests).
Habitat. Kramer, 2014d: 3 (larvae seem to feed on twigs and leaf litter and have been found associated with birds nests).
Habitat. Brighton, 2017b: 30, 43 (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).
Biology. Boardman and Gilson, 2021: 10 (on the attraction of craneflies in general and of N. flavescens and T. (L.) peliostigma by lepidopterists sugar mixture, on an evening in July in a garden near Blewbury, Oxfordshire).
Biology. Harvey, 2021: 5 (brief notes on rearing records for craneflies; a larva was found in soil/leaf-litter on 27 March 1999, kept indoors, an adult female emerged 20 April 1999; loc Berkshire).
Lithuania
Habitat. Podeniene, 2000: 3-10 (larvae were found directly on hard surface between Prunus fallings and rotting Quercus boards; adults are known from meadows and shrubs on river banks).
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003b: 12, 24, 28 (larval habitat: uppermost layer of soil in agrocenozes).
Netherlands
Habitat. Oosterbroek and de Jong, 2001: 105-106 (woods and hedgerows, most abundant in very warm localities; larvae and pupae have been found in leaf-litter and under mosses in broad-leaved forests; in Great Britain the species has been bred from the nests of birds (robin, blackbird, song thrush), and from dead wood, citing various authors).
Poland
Biology. Syratt, 2022a: 5 (rearing records from wet leaf litter in gutter (mainly Fraxinus excelsior and Corylus avellana leaves) and reared from under bark of fallen Fraxinus excelsior, review habitats citing various authors, period of flight).
Russia
Habitat. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 100 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, habitat, citing various authors) (in Russian).
Turkey
Habitat. Kiper and Caliskan, 2007: 28 (loc(s) Eskisehir, with list of habitats) (in Turkish).
Phenology. Koc et al., 2013: 6 (on the period of flight in the southwest Anatolia region).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Lithuania
Immatures. Podeniene, 2000: 3-10 (key larva, comparison, figs).
Immatures. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Andorra
First record. Eiroa and Baez, 2002b: 80 (checklist).
Armenia
Distribution. Hakobyan and Jenderedjian, 2023: 1520 (annotated checklist of the craneflies of Armenia with refs, distr and flight period in Caucasus Ecoregion with refs).
Austria
Distribution. Vogtenhuber, 2011: 48 (checklist Austria, list of provinces).
Distribution. Aistleitner, 2015: 95 (loc(s) Vorarlberg).
Azerbaijan
Distribution. Snegovaya, 2021: 1152 (checklist with details on distr in Azerbaijan).
Bosnia-Herzegowina
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 51 (review literature).
Bulgaria
Distribution. Hubenov, 2021a: 28 (checklist with summary of distr in Bulgaria, references).
Croatia
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 51 (review literature).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary et al., 2005d: 37 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Stary, 2009k: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen et al., 2001b: 163 (checklist).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 220, 231 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies; listed for Finland by Mannheims, 1965a, not yet confirmed but retained for the Finnish list).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 33 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
France
Distribution. Tillier and Dehalleux, 2019: 160 (review records Ile-de-France).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020a: 21, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of Pays de la Loire: Mayenne (53), Sarthe (72), Loire-Atlantique (44), Maine-et-Loire (49) and Vendee (85)) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020b: 128 (loc(s) Pas-de-Calais (62) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht et al., 2001: 427 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 3 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Hable et al., 2010b: 89 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 38 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Distribution. Heiss and Flugel, 2015: 271, 277-278 (loc(s) Hessen; review local distribution and biology, citing various authors
Distribution. Heiss, 2017a: 563, 568, 571 (loc(s) Dinkelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg and table with details on presence in the various biotop-groups).
Distribution. Heiss et al., 2019: 251 (annotated checklist of the Tipulidae of Niedersachsen and Bremen, including the presence in the surrounding Bundeslandern and the Netherlands) (in German).
Distribution. Heiss, 2019: 37, 44 (loc(s) and checklist Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, see paper for further details).
Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 240 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources).
Distribution. Heiss, 2020: 127 (loc(s) and new for Thuringen).
Distribution. Heiss et al., 2021: 240 (found in cave(s) in Hessen, see paper on details of which part of the cave(s)) (in German).
Distribution. Heiss and Malec, 2023: 317 (loc(s) Hessen).
Distribution. Heiss and Malec, 2023: 329 (annotated checklist Hessen).
Great Britain
Distribution. Stubbs, 2003: 8-10 (distr in GB).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 23 (loc(s), map).
Distribution. Boardman, 2008: 8 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Kramer, 2014d: 3 (paying attention to first Leicestershire record by Audcent, 1935, map GB).
Distribution. Dickson, 2015: 89 (loc(s) South Hampshire (VC 11)).
Distribution. Brighton, 2016: 4 (loc(s) Cotterill Clough, Cheshire).
Distribution. Brighton, 2017b: 30, 43 (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. Boardman and Gilson, 2021: 10 (on the attraction of craneflies in general and of N. flavescens and T. (L.) peliostigma by lepidopterists sugar mixture, on an evening in July in a garden near Blewbury, Oxfordshire).
Distribution. Harvey, 2021: 5 (brief notes on rearing records for craneflies; a larva was found in soil/leaf-litter on 27 March 1999, kept indoors, an adult female emerged 20 April 1999; loc Berkshire).
Distribution. Kramer and Morris, 2021b: 22 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)).
Greece
Distribution. Oosterbroek, 2009c: 193 (new for Kerkyra [Corfu] and several Aegean islands).
Distribution. Tillier in litt., 2023a: (found on the island of Tinos, early May 2023).
Ireland
Distribution. Ashe et al., 2007a: 301, 321-322, 343, 353 (review Irish records, red data book status, map).
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 6 (checklist).
Kazakhstan
Distribution. Devyatkov, 2008: 140 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Distribution. Devyatkov, 2022b: 26 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Lithuania
Distribution. Podeniene, 2000: 3-10 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 27 (checklist).
Montenegro
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 51 (review literature).
Morocco
Distribution. Adghir et al., 2018: 536 (checklist Tipulidae Morocco).
Distribution. Kettani et al., 2022b: 32 (annotated checklist, with review loc(s) and/or references).
Netherlands
Distribution. Oosterbroek and de Jong, 2001: 105-106 (review Dutch records).
Distribution. de Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002d: 41 (checklist).
Distribution. Oosterbroek, 2010: 264 (probably extinct in the Netherlands).
North Macedonia
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 51 (review literature).
Poland
Distribution. Skibinska and Chudzicke, 2007b: 78 (checklist).
Distribution. Syratt, 2022a: 5 (loc(s) Krakow, review distr in Poland).
Portugal
First record. Oosterbroek and Eiroa, 2004: 200 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Oosterbroek et al., 2020: 344 (known from Faro only, distr).
Romania
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 232-233 (checklist Tipulidae).
Distribution. Parvu, 2008: 418 (loc(s) Bucuresti and surroundings, citing Erhan, 1962b).
Distribution. Torok et al., 2014: 18 (checklist Romania).
Russia
Distribution. Lantsov, 2004: 65 (loc(s) Caucasus region, distr).
Distribution. Pilipenko, 2009a: 212 (annotated checklist Tipulidae Central European Territory, loc(s) RUC: Moskovskaya and Voronezhskaya oblasts, distr).
Distribution. Paramonov and Klepikov, 2014: 37 (loc(s) Yaroslavskaya oblast).
Distribution. Paramonov, 2014: 39-43 (revision coll. Eversmann), loc(s) RUE: Tatarstan Rep.) (in Russian.
Distribution. Paramonov, 2018b: 62 (loc(s) RUS: Saratovskaya oblast) (in Russian).
Distribution. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 100 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, habitat, citing various authors) (in Russian).
Distribution. Lantsov, 2020: 293 (North Caucasus: found in Dagestan, a dominant species at Narat-Tyube Ridge, Markov Gorge).
Serbia
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 51 (review literature).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009k: webpage (checklist).
Spain
Distribution. Eiroa and Baez, 2002b: 80 (checklist).
Distribution. Eiroa and Carles-Tolra, 2019: 134 (loc(s) Barcelona, list of Spanish provinces, distr) (in Spanish).
Switzerland
Distribution. Dufour and Merz, 2012: 356 (annotated checklist canton Geneva).
Turkey
Distribution. Koc and Oosterbroek, 2001: 465 (checklist).
Distribution. Kiper and Caliskan, 2007: 28 (loc(s) Eskisehir, with list of habitats) (in Turkish).
Distribution. Koc et al., 2012: 117 (checklist of occurrence in the six provinces of southwestern Turkey).
Distribution. Koc et al., 2015: 50 (results of Tipulidae investigations in the 11 provinces of the Marmara region which forms the passage between European and Asiatic Turkey).
Distribution. Tekinoglu and Caliskan, 2019: 61 (loc(s) Uludag Mts, Bursa; review distr in Turkey).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Aistleitner, 2015: month(s): 7.
Czech Rep.
Stary et al., 2005d: month(s): 5-6.
France
Quindroit, 2020a: month(s): 5-6.
Quindroit, 2020b: month(s): 7.
Germany
Schacht et al., 2001: month(s): 6-8.
Heiss, 2017a: month(s): 6-7.
Heiss, 2019: month(s): 7.
Heiss et al., 2021: month(s): 8.
Heiss and Malec, 2023: month(s): 6.
Great Britain
Kramer, 2014d: month(s): 6.
Dickson, 2015: month(s): 6.
Kramer and Morris, 2021b: month(s): 6-8.
Greece
Tillier in litt., 2023a: month(s): 5.
Ireland
Ashe et al., 2007a: month(s): 8.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2008: month(s): 6.
Devyatkov, 2022b: month(s): 6-7.
Netherlands
Oosterbroek and de Jong, 2001: month(s): 5-8.
Portugal
Oosterbroek and Eiroa, 2004: month(s): 4.
Russia
Lantsov, 2004: month(s): 6.
Pilipenko, 2009a: month(s): 6-7.
Paramonov and Klepikov, 2014: month(s): 6-7.
Paramonov, 2014: month(s): 7.
Paramonov, 2018b: month(s): 6.
Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: month(s): 7.
Turkey
Kiper and Caliskan, 2007: month(s): 6-7.
Koc et al., 2013: month(s): 4-5.
Tekinoglu and Caliskan, 2019: month(s): 6-7.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Aistleitner, 2015: altitude: 430 m.
Bulgaria
Hubenov, 2021a: altitude: 550 m.
Germany
Heiss et al., 2021: altitude: 300 m.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2022b: altitude: 306-780 m.
Portugal
Oosterbroek and Eiroa, 2004: altitude: 10 m.
Turkey
Kiper and Caliskan, 2007: altitude: 778-925 m.
Tekinoglu and Caliskan, 2019: altitude: 1451-1457 m.

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