Details for Pilaria decolor
Name:Pilaria decolor (Zetterstedt, 1851)
Publication:Dipt. Scand. 10: 3824 (as Limnobia)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): unicolor (Zetterstedt, 1838).
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limnophilinae
Descriptive note:As new name for Limnobia unicolor Zetterstedt, 1838.
Keys:Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016g; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Austria, Belarus, Czech Rep., Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUE; Georgia.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic
General note:Added: Austria (Strobl, 1895, 1901), Poland (Wiedenska, 1996), Great Britain (Stubbs, 1997c; Chandler, 1998). 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.
Map:Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire)
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references:
Hypopygium: Quindroit, 2021b
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
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. Kahanpaa and Salmela, 2007: 43-45, 48 (found at a small stream with a width of three to five meters, a riverbed of soft muddy sediments, and surrounded by fully grown but not particularly old Spruce [Picea abies] forest, small stands of old Birch [Betula] and Aspen [Populus tremula] are present but there is little dead wood available in the forest) (this is a summary of the available habitat information in Finnish).
Biology. Salmela, 2008: 10, 24, 27, 50 (49) (ecology or habitat: swamp; phenology).
Habitat. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (habitats Aland Is).
Habitat. Autio et al., 2013: 1128 (a wetland generalist, one of the species found in a study on species richness and rarity in a boreal mire).
France
Habitat. Quindroit, 2021b: 347 (from a marshland area, on a muddy ditch in a caducifoliae forest; see paper for details) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2022a: 21, 27 (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: 22.
Biology. Boardman, 2007: 72 (habitat: associated with lakeside and seepage carr; period of flight: very short, late july to mid august).
Habitat. Boardman, 2017: 3 (fen and reedbed habitat, Surrey).
Norway
Habitat. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 213 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Romania
Habitat. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 212 (marshy meadow).
Russia
Habitat. Przhiboro, 2003: 364 (larvae in the water margin zone of an eutrophic lake; rearing).
Habitat. Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: (collected in a boggy area with Pinus, mosses, Vaccinium oxycoccos, Ledum, Calluna).
Habitat. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 212-214 (loc(s) RUN and RUE [Gavryushin in litt., 2011: in the Arkhangelskaya oblast collected in a boggy area with Pinus, mosses, Vaccinium oxycoccos, Ledum, Calluna]).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Characters. Drake and Stubbs, 2014: 184-185 (comparison).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 211 (loc(s) Minsk region).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 151 (because of neighbouring distribution likely to occur in Denmark).
First record. Byriel and Rojas, 2017: 118 (among the 101 species in a study on cranefly hotspots in unmanaged and managed forests) (in Danish).
Finland
Distribution. Kahanpaa and Salmela, 2007: 48 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela and Autio, 2007b: 49, 54 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2007b: 45 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2008: 10, 50 (49) (loc(s), known from all Finnish ecoregions).
Distribution. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (loc(s) Aland Is).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 239 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 28 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2015: 106 (list of localities in extensive report on malaise-trapping of insects in conservation areas in Lapland in 2012–2014) (in Finnish).
France
First record. Quindroit, 2021b: 347 (loc(s) Loire-Atlantique (44), distr).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2022a: 21, 27 (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: 359 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region).
Germany
Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 156 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Great Britain
Distribution. Godfrey, 2000a: 20, 22 (see paper for details of sites surveyed in Shropshire and into Wales).
Distribution. Crossley, 2001: 194 (loc(s) Sheffield).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 72 (loc(s), map).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Distribution. Boardman, 2017: 3 (fen and reedbed habitat, Surrey).
Netherlands
Misinterpretation. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 35 (checklist, review Dutch records, deleted for the Netherlands).
Norway
Distribution. Olsen et al., 2018: 160-161, 165 (annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions; remark on record(s) by Mannheims 1967 and Solem 1996).
Distribution. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 213 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 76 (checklist).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2008: 45, 47 (loc(s) Parowy Janinowski nature reserve near Lodz) (in Polish).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2010: 135 (loc(s) Parku Krajobrazowego Wzniesien Lodzkich, Lodz).
Romania
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 212 (loc(s) Harghita).
Russia
First record. Przhiboro, 2003: 364 (loc(s) RUW: Pskov oblast).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 212-214 (loc(s) RUN and RUE [Gavryushin in litt., 2011: in the Arkhangelskaya oblast collected in a boggy area with Pinus, mosses, Vaccinium oxycoccos, Ledum, Calluna]).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 7.
Finland
Salmela, 2008: month(s): 7-8.
France
Quindroit, 2021b: month(s): 6.
Quindroit, 2022a: month(s): 6.
Great Britain
Godfrey, 2000a: month(s): 6.
Crossley, 2001: month(s): 7.
Boardman, 2007: month(s): 7-8.
Boardman, 2017: month(s): 7.
Norway
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: month(s): 7.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2008: month(s): 8.
Romania
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 6.
Russia
Przhiboro, 2003: month(s): 3.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 7-8.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 156-161 m.
Norway
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: altitude: 737 m.
Romania
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 764 m.
Russia
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 19-510 m.

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