Details for Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sera

Name: Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sera (Walker, 1848) Publication: List Dipt. Colln Brit. Mus. 1: 46 (as Limnobia) Status: Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): disjuncta (Walker, 1848); globata (Walker, 1848); forcipula Meijere, 1918; discors Kuntze, 1919; erostrata (Alexander, 1930). Classification: Family Limoniidae Subfamily Limoniinae Keys: Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 (Limoniinae Mongolia and nearby); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016h; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies); Podenas et al., 2019a (Dicranomyia Korea) habitus male hypopygium hypopygium hypopygium hypopygium plus 8 more images of ovipositor, ovipositor, wing, wing, wing, habitat, habitat and habitat. Distribution: Canada, USA (Man, Utah);; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Denmark, Finland, France (incl. Corsica), Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is [Mallorca]), Sweden, Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUS, North Caucasus; Turkey (Asiatic part: Burdur);; Russia: WS (south), ES (south), FE (Chukotkskiy AO, Primorskiy kray); Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan; Mongolia, South Korea. Note: see the manual for abbreviations: Canada and USA; present-day Russia. Region(s): Nearctic;; Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic General note: Added: Serbia (Simova-Tosic and Vukovic, 1996). For Finland check Salmela, 2012b, 2012c, and citations below. For Norway check Olsen et al., 2018, and citations below. For Great Britain and Ireland check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below. Map: Koc et al., 2006 (SW Turkey); Podenas et al., 2019a (Korea) Biology: Alexander, 1948b (as sera erostrata Alexander) (habitat). Stary, 1998b (habitat: saline). Figure references: Wing: Hancock and Horsfiels, 2017; Podenas et al., 2019a Hypopygium: Stary and Rozkosny, 1970a; Savchenko, 1985b; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007; Podenas et al., 2019a Ovipositor: Podenas et al., 2019a Other figures: Hancock and Horsfiels, 2017 (female abdomen) Immature stages Larva: Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c Miscellaneous Quindroit and Racine, 2025 (habitat); Oliveira and Eck, 2025 (habitat) Citations on biology (mainly from 2000 onward): Country not relevant Biology. Olsen et al., 2018: 145-146 (a species of brackish or saline habitats (Salmela 2010), found in salty and coastal grazing marshes (Autio & Salmela 2010, Stubbs 2010); in Britain confined to high zone saltmarsh, most often markedly associated with Juncus gerardii; believed to be intolerant of intensive grazing (Stubbs 2003); in Kazakhstan collected at small freshwater pools and wet habitats near a salty steppe lake with surrounding vegetation of grazed grassland (Devyatkov 2013). The period of flight is june-september; see table 1 for habitat information of the Norwegian locality(ties)). Finland Habitat. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48, 51 (habitats Aland Is, inhabitant of Baltic shore meadows and marshlands). France Habitat. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 344 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire region, distr) (in French). Great Britain Habitat. Crossley, 2001: 194 (a coastal marsh species). Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 29, 31 (confined to high zone saltmarsh, most often markedly associated with Juncus gerardi; grazing needs to be absent or light: it is believed to be intolerant of close grazing). Habitat. Stubbs, 2008b: 3 (in Britain strictly a saltmarsh species of the upper inter-tidal zone). Habitat. Kramer, 2009g: 2 (recorded from dune scrub and/or dune grassland). Habitat. Irwin, 2010: 169 (a marine, estuarine or brackish species that can develop in mud). Habitat. Stubbs, 2010c: 284 (found at salt and coastal grazing marshes). Habitat. Drake, 2011a: 24 (present at saltmarsh at the Axe estuary). Habitat. Stubbs, 2014b: 2 (loc(s) Scotland; see paper for details on habitat). Habitat. Stubbs, 2014c: 3 (loc(s) NW Wales; see paper for details on habitat). Habitat. Stubbs, 2016b: 14 (loc(s) Kent, saltmarsh species). Habitat. Boardman, 2017: 3-4 (saltmarshes, Cumbria, Lancashire). Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 28, 38 (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. Hancock and Horsfield, 2017: 8 (saltmarsh species mostly associated with Juncus gerardii, ecological data are given by Alan Stubbs (2003)). Habitat. Stubbs, 2024c: 35 (loc(s) Lancashire, see paper for habitat information). Hungary Habitat. Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: 167 (collected from saline habitats). Ireland Habitat. Ashe et al., 2008: 10 (a localised saltmarsh specialist usually found with Juncus gerardii, citing Stubbs in litt.). Kazakhstan Habitat. Devyatkov, 2013: 89 (collected at small freshwater pools and wet habitats near a salty steppe lake, surrounding vegetation was grazed grassland). Mongolia Habitat. Yadamsuren et al., 2015: 474 (littoral zone of salt lakes). Habitat. Oliveira and Eck, 2025: 148, Specieslist (collected in a riverforest with Salix, at a lake margin and along rivers, and at salt/mudflats with halophytes, see habitat photos). Russia Habitat. Lantsov, 2009e: 119 (a typically halophilous species, part of the coastal community of Lake Sukhoye). Habitat. Lantsov, 2011b: 70 (on ecological groups of tipuloid larvae in the Caucasus) (in Russian). Habitat. Lantsov, 2017b: 107 (on dominant species of the crane flies (Diptera, Tipuloidea) of the North Caucasus as biological indicators of habitats) (in Russian). South Korea Biology. Podenas et al., 2019a: 62 (meadow in the city park; attracted to light). Spain Habitat. Stary, 2014b: 90 (collected at saltmarshes and canal). Habitat. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 72 (salt marsh). Sweden Habitat. Salmela, 2010b: 129 (a species of brackish or saline habitats, citing various authors). 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). Characters. Hancock and Horsfield, 2017: 8 (on a brachypterous population of Dicranomyia sera, discal cell absent in one specimen, discussion on identification, comparison with other D. sera specimens, Dicranota robusta and Symplecta stictica, figs; see paper for details). Characters. Olsen et al., 2018: 145 (the species is often yellow; it can be dark, but the thorax is never glossy black; flagellar segments compact, not elongated; wings clear, with discal cell present; male genitalia simple, tergite 9 with a strong V-shaped notch, gonocoxites and gonostyles slender; fig). Mongolia Key. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007: 44 (key, figs). South Korea Description. Podenas et al., 2019a: 12-15, 60-62 (descr, key, comparison, figs). on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward): Bulgaria Distribution. Hubenov, 2021a: 37 (checklist with summary of distr in Bulgaria, references). Czech Rep. Distribution. Stary and Bartak, 2005: 243 (red list status Czech Rep.: endangered). Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). Denmark Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 149 (checklist). Finland Distribution. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (loc(s) Aland Is, recorded from the whole finnish coastal area southwards from the gulf of Bothnia). Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 236 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies). Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 29 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha). France Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 344 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire region, 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: 161 (checklist German Bundeslander). Distribution. Reusch and Bellstedt, 2001b: 75 (checklist Thuringen). Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 141 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources). Great Britain Distribution. Crossley, 2001: 194 (loc(s) Sheffield). Distribution. Kramer, 2009g: 2 (loc(s) Swansea). Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 129 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr). Distribution. Drake, 2011a: 24 (loc(s) Devon). Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera). Distribution. Stubbs, 2014b: 2 (loc(s) Scotland; see paper for details on habitat). Distribution. Stubbs, 2014c: 3 (loc(s) NW Wales; see paper for details on habitat). Distribution. Stubbs, 2016b: 14 (loc(s) Kent, saltmarsh species). Distribution. Boardman, 2017: 3-4 (saltmarshes, Cumbria, Lancashire). Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 28, 38 (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. Hancock and Horsfield, 2017: 8 (loc(s) Sutherland). Distribution. Hancock and Horsfield, 2017: 8 (review distr in Scotland). Distribution. Stubbs, 2024c: 35 (loc(s) Lancashire, see paper for habitat information). Hungary First record. Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: 167 (loc(s) Bacs-Kiskun county). Ireland Distribution. Ashe et al., 2008: 10 (additional Irish record(s), distr). Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 13 (checklist). Kazakhstan Distribution. Devyatkov, 2013: 89 (loc(s) Pavlodarskaya oblast). Distribution. Devyatkov, 2019b: 246 (loc(s) Pavlodarskaya oblast, distr) (in Russian). Distribution. Devyatkov, 2020a: 50-51 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian). Mongolia Distribution. Boldgiv, 2006: 153 (loc(s)). Distribution. Yadamsuren et al., 2015: 474 (loc(s) Mongolia). Distribution. Oliveira and Eck, 2025: 148, Specieslist (loc(s) Dornod and Khentii aimags). Netherlands Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 33 (checklist). Norway First record. Olsen et al., 2018: 145, 160-161 (loc(s) AK and TEY; distr; annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions). Poland Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 74 (checklist). Romania Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae). Russia Distribution. Lantsov, 2004: 63, 66-67 (loc(s) Caucasus region, distr). Distribution. Humala and Polevoi, 2008: 133 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya). Distribution. Lantsov, 2009e: 119 (loc(s) North Caucasus: Lake Sukhoye). Distribution. Lantsov, 2017b: 107 (on dominant species of the crane flies (Diptera, Tipuloidea) of the North Caucasus as biological indicators of habitats) (in Russian). Distribution. Humala and Polevoi, 2022: 33 (loc(s) RUN: Arkhangelskaya oblast) (first record for RUN). Serbia Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 447 (review literature). Slovakia Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist). South Korea First record. Podenas et al., 2019a: 61, 105 (loc(s), map). Spain First record. Stary, 2014b: 90 (loc(s) Mallorca). Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 71-72 (loc(s) La Coruna, first record for mainland Spain). Sweden Distribution. Salmela, 2010b: 133 (loc(s) Malmo). Turkey First record. Koc et al., 2006: 19-21 (loc(s), distr, map). Distribution. Ozgul et al., 2009: 63 (survey provinces SW Turkey). on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward): France Quindroit and Racine, 2025: month(s): 8. Great Britain Crossley, 2001: month(s): 8. Kramer, 2009g: month(s): 7. Stubbs, 2014b: month(s): 6. Stubbs, 2014c: month(s): 7. Stubbs, 2016b: month(s): 7. Boardman, 2017: month(s): 6, 9. Hancock and Horsfield, 2017: month(s): 6. Stubbs, 2024c: month(s): 6. Hungary Kolcsar and Soltesz, 2018: month(s): 6-7, 9. Kazakhstan Devyatkov, 2013: month(s): 9. Devyatkov, 2019b: month(s): 5-9. Devyatkov, 2020a: month(s): 6-9. Mongolia Oliveira and Eck, 2025: month(s): 8. Norway Olsen et al., 2018: month(s): 6-8. Russia Lantsov, 2004: month(s): 5-6. South Korea Podenas et al., 2019a: month(s): 5. Spain Stary, 2014b: month(s): 5. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 4. Turkey Koc et al., 2006: month(s): 6, 9. on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward): Bulgaria Hubenov, 2021a: altitude: 0-10 m. Kazakhstan Devyatkov, 2019b: altitude: 61-456 m. Devyatkov, 2020a: altitude: 396-912 m. Mongolia Oliveira and Eck, 2025: altitude: 830-1580 m. South Korea Podenas et al., 2019a: altitude: 27 m. Spain Stary, 2014b: altitude: 0-1 m. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 0 m. Turkey Koc et al., 2006: altitude: 835-856 m.