Details for Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) omissinervis
Name:Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) omissinervis Meijere, 1918
Publication:Tijdschr. Ent. 61: 129 (as Dicranomyia)
Status:Recognized taxon.
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limoniinae
Descriptive note:Type-material: Jong, 2000.
Keys:Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 (Limoniinae Mongolia and nearby); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016h; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
Variant spelling(s):omissinerva
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habitus
male
habitus
male
habitus
male
body part(s)
antenna
body part(s)
head and thorax
plus 12 more images of body part(s), hypopygium, hypopygium, hypopygium, ovipositor, wing, habitat, habitat, habitat, habitat, habitat and habitat.
Distribution:Czech Rep., Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine (Carpathians); Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC, RUE;; Russia: WS (Tuva), ES (Irkutskaya oblast), FE (Magadan oblast, Kamchatka, Khabarovskiy kray, Primorskiy kray, Sakhalin (incl. Kuril Is)); Kazakhstan (east); Mongolia.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic
General note:Added: 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: France (see citation below for Quindroit, 2025a).
Map:Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire)
Figure
references:
Hypopygium: Podenas et al., 2006; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007

Miscellaneous
Hewitt et al., 2005 (habitat); Oliveira and Eck, 2025 (habitat)
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Finland
Biology. Salmela, 2008: 11, 28-31, 40, 51 (49) (ecology or habitat: lotic, adults have been caught around cold headwater streams with rich riparian vegetation, further habitat details on page 31, 40; phenology).
Habitat. Penttinen et al., 2010: 485 (red list status incl. criteria, habitats, causes of threat, threat factors).
Habitat. Salmela et al., 2019: 521 (red list status, habitat types, threat factors).
Great Britain
Habitat. Godfrey, 1999: 66, 79 (species of sandy exposed riverine sediments).
Habitat. Godfrey, 2000a: 7, 13, 22 (exposed river sediments).
Habitat. Howe and Howe, 2001: 37, 43-45.
Habitat. Hewitt et al., 2005: 6, 18, 37, 42, 52 (indicator species of exposed riverine sediments habitats, incl. habitat colourphotos: associated with shaded sandy riverbanks) (as Limonia).
Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 78 (associated with exposed riverine sediment; see Boardman, 2005d for habitat information and red data status in Shropshire).
Habitat. Cranston and Drake, 2010: 175 (larvae can be found in marginal situations along flowing waters).
Mongolia
Habitat. Yadamsuren et al., 2015: 474 (in soil, usually in forests and shrubs).
Habitat. Oliveira and Eck, 2025: 142, Specieslist (collected in a riverine swamp with Birch forest and Carex, in a riverforest with Salix, and along rivulets meandering through Salix wood, see habitat photos).
Romania
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 237, 244 (springs, swamps, moist soil, citing various sources).
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005b: 68 (associated with moist environments like swamps, peat bogs or along small rivers (Mendl, 1978b), but sometimes in drier places lake shaded vegetation in parks and gardens).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Phylogeny. Boldgiv, 2006: 96-154 (one of the 84 morphological taxa from northern Mongolia in a consistency test of morphology based species identification of crane flies against DNA-barcoding identification using 536-base-pair sequence profiles of the COI gene, also known as the DNA barcode).
Great Britain
Characters. Boardman, 2007: 78 (characters).
Mongolia
Key. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007: 38 (key, figs).
Russia
Characters. Pilipenko et al., 2020: 359 (male with closed discal cell which is usually open, figs).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary, 2008c: 247 (loc(s) Bohemia, distr).
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 149 (because of neighbouring distribution likely to occur in Denmark).
Finland
First record. Salmela, 2008: 11, 40, 51 (49) (loc(s), known from 2 of the Finnish ecoregions, apparently absent from the southern part of Finland, review distr).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 236 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 29 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2019: 521 (red list status, habitat types, threat factors).
France
Misinterpretation. Quindroit, 2025a: 93 (removed from the list of French Limoniidae; see paper for details).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht, 1999: 135 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 161 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 4 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 16 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Great Britain
Distribution. Godfrey, 1999: 66, 79 (loc(s) review Diptera exposed riverine sediments).
Distribution. Godfrey, 2000a: 7, 13, 22 (see paper for details of sites surveyed in Shropshire and into Wales).
Distribution. Howe and Howe, 2001: 37, 43-45 (see paper for details on loc(s) in which of the eight vice-counties visited).
Distribution. Hewitt et al., 2005: 6, 18, 37, 42, 52 (loc(s) Cumbria) (as Limonia).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 78 (loc(s), map).
Distribution. Kramer, 2008d: 1 (historical record Scotland).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Ireland
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 13 (checklist).
Kazakhstan
First record. Devyatkov, 2013: 86 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan).
Distribution. Devyatkov, 2020a: 50 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Lithuania
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 18 (checklist).
Mongolia
Distribution. Boldgiv, 2006: 153 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Yadamsuren et al., 2015: 474 (loc(s) Mongolia).
Distribution. Oliveira and Eck, 2025: 142, Specieslist (loc(s) Khentii aimag).
Netherlands
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 33 (checklist).
Poland
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 74 (checklist).
Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 146 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks).
Romania
First record. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 237, 244 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2005b: 68 (loc(s), distr).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae).
Russia
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: (loc(s) RUN: Arkhangelskaya oblast).
Distribution. Pilipenko et al., 2020: 359 (loc(s) RUC: Mordoviya Rep., distr).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 63-64 (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep.).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Slovenia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 447 (review literature).
Switzerland
Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 159, 226 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Czech Rep.
Stary, 2008c: month(s): 7.
Finland
Salmela, 2008: month(s): 8.
Great Britain
Godfrey, 2000a: month(s): 6.
Howe and Howe, 2001: month(s): 6.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2013: month(s): 7-8.
Devyatkov, 2020a: month(s): 7-8.
Mongolia
Oliveira and Eck, 2025: month(s): 8.
Poland
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 8.
Romania
Ujvarosi, 2005b: month(s): 5, 7.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: month(s): 8.
Pilipenko et al., 2020: month(s): 8.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 7.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 6-8.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: altitude: 300-1468 m.
Mongolia
Oliveira and Eck, 2025: altitude: 1000-1550 m.
Poland
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 470 m.
Romania
Ujvarosi, 2005b: altitude: 450-640 m.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: altitude: 14 m.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 550 m.

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