Details for Dicranomyia (Melanolimonia) rufiventris
Name:Dicranomyia (Melanolimonia) rufiventris (Strobl, 1900)
Publication:Jber. Naturh. Landesmus. Karnten 47: 191 (as Limnobia)
Status:Recognized taxon.
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limoniinae
Descriptive note:Type-material: Chvala, 2008.
Keys:Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007 (Limoniinae Mongolia and nearby); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016h; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies); Stary, 2023 (males European Metalimonia)
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plus 8 more images of hypopygium, wing, habitat, habitat, habitat, habitat, habitat and habitat.
Distribution:Austria, Czech Rep., Estonia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine (Carpathians); Russia: RUN, RUW, RUE; Turkey (Asiatic part: Mugla);; Russia: ES (Taymyr, Irkutskaya oblast), FE (Magadan oblast, Kamchatka, Sakhalin); Kazakhstan (east); Mongolia.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic
General note:Type-locality not in Poland but in the Czech Rep. 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. To be confirmed for Nearctic Region (in Palaearctic Catalogue (Savchenko et al., 1992)). Removed: France (see citation below for Quindroit, 2025a).
Map:Koc, 2004 (Mugla); Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland)
Biology:Stary, 1997f (habitat).
Figure
references:
Hypopygium: Podenas et al., 2006; Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007; Salmela, 2024
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Finland
Biology. Salmela, 2008: 11, 22, 25-27, 51 (49) (ecology or habitat: peatland; phenology: very abundant in august, weeks 32-35).
Habitat. Salmela, 2011a: 1-28 (study on three wetland habitats: aapa mires, springs and headwater streams).
Habitat. Salmela, 2012c: 11 (classified as a mire-dwelling species).
Mongolia
Habitat. Oliveira and Eck, 2025: Specieslist (collected in a riverine swamp with Birch forest and Carex, in Salix woodland on a lake edge, and along rivulets meandering through Salix wood, see habitat photos).
Norway
Habitat. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 214 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Russia
Habitat. Hancock, 2019: 50 (loc(s) RUN: Murmanskaya oblast, collected from along a bank of a river).
Turkey
Biology. Koc, 2004: 106, 111, 116-118, 153 (habitat; phenology) (in Turkish).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Characters. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2001: 51 (comparison).
Mongolia
Key. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2007: 49 (key, figs).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 149 (because of neighbouring distribution likely to occur in Denmark).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela, 2001a: 144, 151 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2002: 30-32 (loc(s) lake Iidesjarvi) (in Finnish).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2007b: 46 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2008: 11, 51 (49) (loc(s), known from all Finnish ecoregions).
Distribution. Salmela, 2011a: 24 (loc(s) subalpine northern boreal Finland).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 237 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 30 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2015: 101 (list of localities in extensive report on malaise-trapping of insects in conservation areas in Lapland in 2012–2014) (in Finnish).
France
Misinterpretation. Quindroit, 2025a: 91-92 (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: 5 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 16 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Great Britain
Distribution. Kramer, 2007d: 1 (loc(s) Scotland).
Distribution. Kramer, 2008d: 1 (historical record Scotland).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 129 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr).
Kazakhstan
First record. Devyatkov, 2020a: 52 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Lithuania
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 18 (checklist).
Mongolia
Distribution. Podenas and Gelhaus, 2001: 51 (distr).
Distribution. Oliveira and Eck, 2025: Specieslist (loc(s) Khentii aimag).
Norway
Distribution. Olsen et al., 2018: 162-163 (annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 71 (loc(s) Akershus).
Distribution. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 214 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Romania
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae).
Russia
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2011e: (loc(s) RUN: Murmanskaya oblast).
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2015a: (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep.).
Distribution. Hancock, 2019: 50 (loc(s) RUN: Murmanskaya oblast, collected from along a bank of a river).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Switzerland
Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 164, 228 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
Turkey
First record. Koc, 2004: 106, 111, 116-118, 153 (loc(s), distr, map) (in Turkish).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Finland
Salmela, 2001a: month(s): 8.
Salmela, 2008: month(s): 7-8.
Great Britain
Kramer, 2007d: month(s): 6.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: month(s): 8.
Norway
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 9.
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: month(s): 6-8.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2011e: month(s): 7.
Gavryushin in litt., 2015a: month(s): 7.
Hancock, 2019: month(s): 8.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 7-9.
Turkey
Koc, 2004: month(s): 5.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2020a: altitude: 980-2032 m.
Mongolia
Oliveira and Eck, 2025: altitude: 1100-1580 m.
Norway
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 110 m.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2015a: altitude: 550 m.
Turkey
Koc, 2004: altitude: 1025 m.

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