Details for Erioconopa trivialis
Name:Erioconopa trivialis (Meigen, 1818)
Publication:Syst. Beschr. 1: 112 (as Erioptera)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): ?sericea (Macquart, 1826); parumpunctata (Storm, 1898); ciliaris (Schummel, 1829).
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Chioneinae
Descriptive note:Synonymy of parumpunctata (Storm, 1898) after Stary in litt., 2018a.
Keys:Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2014c, 2016c (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016j; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark (incl. Faroe Is), Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC, RUE, North Caucasus; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey (Asiatic part), Iran.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic
General note:Added: Andorra (Geiger et al., 1994). For Italy check Stary and Oosterbroek, 1996, and citations below. 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. To be confirmed for Novaya Zemlya.
Map:Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland); Ashe et al., 2007b (Ireland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire)
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references:
Head: Oosterbroek et al., 2007 (head, antenna)
Wing: Stary, 1976c; Podenas et al., 2006; Boardman, 2007
Hypopygium: Stary and Rozkosny, 1970a; Stary, 1974f; Stary, 1976a; Podenas et al., 2006; Kramer and Morris, 2022a
Ovipositor: Stary, 1976c

Immature stages
Larva: Podeniene, 2003a; Krivosheina and Krivosheina, 2011c
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Bulgaria
Habitat. Hubenov, 2025b: suppl: 4 (annotated list Diptera high Bulgarian mts, local distr, habitats and zoogeography).
Czech Rep.
Habitat. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: 54 (on Limoniidae and Pediciidae of two localities in northern Bohemia, with list of localities, altitudes and habitats).
Finland
Habitat. Salmela and Ilmonen, 2005: 89 (the occurrence in relation to the trophic status of mires within an open boreal mire system is investigated; found at an ombrotrophic site only).
France
Biology. Quindroit, 2020a: 26-27, 41, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020b: 135 (loc(s) Nord (59) and Pas-de-Calais (62) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020b: 136 (loc(s) Nord (59) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French) (as E. diuturna, see Quindroit and Lemoine, 2023).
Habitat. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021a: 23 (loc(s), resultats de deux campagnes de piegeage dans le Pas-de-Calais (62); see paper for details on habitat).
Habitat. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 25 (loc(s) Aisne (02) and Oise (60 with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Germany
Habitat. Lehmann and Reusch, 2009: 122 (from around lowland springs).
Great Britain
Habitat. Godfrey, 2001a: 21.
Habitat. Cole, 2002: 19 (found at a flooded clay-pit fed by a saline spring in the NE edge of Peterborough, numerous on 4 october mixed with a few E. diuturna).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 18 (a very common species in many open wet habitats; at Moor House on Calluna/Sphagnum moor and Juncus squarrosus moor, plus alluvial flushes).
Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 42 (found in wet habitats including woodlands, marshes, mires and pond margins).
Habitat. Phillips, 2007: 150 (pool on raised beach, cliffs, and flushes) (as Erioptera).
Habitat. Kramer, 2009f: 1 (Sphagnum bog).
Habitat. Kramer, 2011j: 13 (a frequent species of marsh and woodland).
Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 25, 32 (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, 2018a: 9 (found near Loch Lomond along Endrick Water, notes on association with riverine sediments (ERS) habitats and early date of collecting (april 22)).
Biology. Boardman, 2021b: 6-7 (on two different species of craneflies swarming at the same time by an isolated Oak [Quercus] tree at Clayhanger SSSI, Black Country, West Midlands; see paper for details, definition of swarming, citations and photo of swarming positions (photo reproduced above)).
Habitat. Kramer and Morris, 2022a: 5 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); tends to be located in damp/wet areas).
Ireland
Habitat. Ashe et al., 2007b: 367-368 (larvae in peat soil of grassland planted on reclaimed blanket bog, citing Okely, 1979, and bred from rotten potatoes, citing Blackith and Blackith, 1989).
Lithuania
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
Norway
Habitat. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 208 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2017a: 16 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Romania
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 245 (hot springs, swamps, moist soil, citing various sources).
Habitat. Ujvarosi and Poti, 2006: 256, 260 (habitat in Dupa Lunca marshland: damp meadows).
Habitat. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 106 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Sweden
Habitat. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 44, 47 (distributin and ecology in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Phylogeny. Michelsen, 1996: 101 (ingroup taxon in a study titled: Neodiptera: New insights into the adult morphology and higher level phylogeny of Diptera (Insecta)).
Characters. Frantsevich, 2004: 133 (structure of coxa).
Synonymy. Stary in litt., 2018a: (proposing to consider parumpunctata (Storm, 1898) as a synonym of trivialis in stead of symplectoides, based on the examination of material of both species and a translation of the Latin description of parumpunctata, kindly provided by Louis Boumans, november 2018).
Great Britain
Characters. Kramer and Morris, 2022a: 5 (diagnosis, figs).
Lithuania
Immatures. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Andorra
Distribution. Eiroa and Baez, 2002a: 54 (checklist).
Armenia
Distribution. Obona et al., 2016: 139 (checklist).
Distribution. Hakobyan and Jenderedjian, 2023: 1507 (annotated checklist of the craneflies of Armenia with refs, distr and flight period in Caucasus Ecoregion with refs).
Austria
Distribution. Reusch and Heiss, 2012: 314-322 (loc(s) Nat. Park Gesause, see PDF for months and altitudes).
Azerbaijan
Distribution. Snegovaya, 2021: 1141 (checklist with details on distr in Azerbaijan).
Belarus
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 99 (loc(s) Vitebsk).
Belgium
Distribution. Martens et al., 2014: 114, 124 (loc(s) Oost-Vlaanderen).
Bulgaria
Distribution. Hubenov, 2015: 220 (annotated list Diptera Pirin Mt, loc(s), faunistics and zoogeography).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2016: 48 (annotated checklist Diptera of the Rila Mountains based on data from the literature).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2017: 68 (on vertical distribution in the Pirin and Rila Mts; see paper for details on forests and subalpine-alpine zones, distr).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2021a: 32 (checklist with summary of distr in Bulgaria, references).
Distribution. Hubenov, 2025b: suppl: 4 (annotated list Diptera high Bulgarian mts, local distr, habitats and zoogeography).
Channel Is
Distribution. Stubbs, 2022b: 5 (on a collection of craneflies from Jersey, collected between 1985 and 2002 by Tony Warne).
Croatia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary et al., 2005a: 26 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Distribution. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: 54 (on Limoniidae and Pediciidae of two localities in northern Bohemia, with list of localities, altitudes and habitats).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 149 (checklist).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela, 2002: 30-32 (loc(s) lake Iidesjarvi) (in Finnish).
Distribution. Salmela and Ilmonen, 2005: 89 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela and Autio, 2007b: 54 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2010a: 12 (survey fauna Tahmela spring in city of Tampere) (in Finnish).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 237 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 24 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
France
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020a: 26-27, 41, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020b: 135 (loc(s) Nord (59) and Pas-de-Calais (62) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020b: 136 (loc(s) Nord (59) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French) (as E. diuturna, see Quindroit and Lemoine, 2023).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021a: 23 (loc(s), resultats de deux campagnes de piegeage dans le Pas-de-Calais (62); see paper for details on habitat).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 25 (loc(s) Aisne (02) and Oise (60 with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 35 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Hauts-de-France region).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2022a: 25-28 (additions to the annotated list of the Tipuloidea of Pays de la Loire as given in Quindroit, 2020a).
Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 357 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht, 1999: 134 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 157 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Distribution. Reusch and Bellstedt, 2001b: 73 (checklist Thuringen).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 5 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Lehmann and Reusch, 2009: 122 (loc(s) Niedersachsen).
Distribution. Hable et al., 2010b: 91 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 16 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 142 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources).
Great Britain
Distribution. Godfrey, 2001a: 21 (recorded from sites in Shropshire and just over the country border in Montgmeryshire; see paper for details).
Distribution. Cole, 2002: 19 (found at a flooded clay-pit fed by a saline spring in the NE edge of Peterborough, numerous on 4 october mixed with a few E. diuturna).
Distribution. Hewitt et al., 2005: 38 (loc(s) Cumbria) (as Erioptera).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 42 (loc(s), map).
Distribution. Phillips, 2007: 150 (loc(s) Isle of Rum) (as Erioptera).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2008a: 59 (loc(s) Tiree, Western Isles, Scotland).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2008b: 68 (loc(s) Kerrera, Western Isles, Scotland).
Distribution. Kramer, 2009f: 1 (loc(s) Yorkshire).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 126 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr).
Distribution. Hancock, 2011a: 2 (loc(s) Tiree and Coll, Southern Inner Hebrides).
Distribution. Kramer, 2011j: 13 (loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55)).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Distribution. Wolton et al., 2014: 26 (among Diptera associated with a hedge in Devon).
Distribution. Chandler, 2015: 89 (loc(s) Bushy Park, Middlesex).
Distribution. Brighton, 2016: 4 (loc(s) Cotterill Clough, Cheshire).
Distribution. Drake, 2016: 12, 20 (study on the relative importance to Diptera of pasture and ditch margins on Catcott Reserve, Somerset).
Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 25, 32 (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, 2018a: 9 (found near Loch Lomond along Endrick Water, notes on association with riverine sediments (ERS) habitats and early date of collecting (april 22)).
Distribution. Boardman, 2021b: 6-7 (on two different species of craneflies swarming at the same time by an isolated Oak [Quercus] tree at Clayhanger SSSI, Black Country, West Midlands; see paper for details, definition of swarming, citations and photo of swarming positions (photo reproduced above)).
Distribution. Kramer and Morris, 2022a: 5 (info on the species, on the distr and map of loc(s) Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55); tends to be located in damp/wet areas).
Iceland
Distribution. Olsen in litt., 2018: (collected in Iceland in july 2018).
Ireland
Distribution. Ashe et al., 2007b: 359, 361, 366-368, 402 (review Irish records, map).
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 9 (checklist).
Italy
Distribution. Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: 352 (omitted for South Tyrol [Prov. Bolzano] but known from the region after e.g. Mannheims, 1964; see also Stary and Oosterbroek, 1996).
Latvia
Distribution. Stary, 2004f: (Fauna Europaea: added Latvia).
Lithuania
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 19 (checklist).
Netherlands
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 28 (checklist).
Distribution. Steenis, 2019: 15 (loc(s) Noord-Brabant, Biesbosch).
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Dek, 2020: 16 (Limoniidae and Tipulidae Nationaal Park Hollandse Duinen in 2018, Zuid-Holland).
Distribution. Stary, 2020a: 45 (Limoniidae Kaaistoep, Noord-Brabant).
Norway
Distribution. Olsen et al., 2018: 154-155 (annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
Distribution. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 208 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 75 (checklist).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2017a: 16 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 136 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks).
Romania
Distribution. Ujvarosi and Poti, 2006: 256, 260 (loc(s) eastern Carpathians).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae).
Distribution. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 106 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Russia
Distribution. Polevoi and Humala, 2005: 181 (RUN: list of Diptera of Vepsskaya Volost, Kareliya) (in Russian).
Distribution. Humala and Polevoi, 2009: 66 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya) (in Russian).
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2011e: (loc(s) RUN: Murmanskaya oblast).
Distribution. Ruchin and Pilipenko, 2015: 57 (checklist RUC: Mordoviya Rep.).
Distribution. Lantsov, 2016: 165-170 (on craneflies from Arkhyz, Karachay-Cherkessia Rep., North Caucasus) (in Russian).
Distribution. Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: 96 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast) (in Russian).
Distribution. Pilipenko et al., 2020: 357 (loc(s) RUC: Mordoviya Rep., distr).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2021b: 99-100 (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep.).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009d: 27 (loc(s) Polana area).
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Slovenia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature).
Spain
Distribution. Eiroa and Baez, 2002a: 54 (checklist).
Sweden
Distribution. Salmela, 2010b: 133 (loc(s) Malmo).
Distribution. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 44, 47 (distributin and ecology in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Switzerland
Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 92, 244 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
Turkey
Distribution. Koc et al., 2005b: 616 (checklist).
Distribution. Akpinar and Ozgul, 2023: 55 (loc(s) Aksaray [other provinces to be worked out]).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 5.
Belgium
Martens et al., 2014: month(s): 5-8.
Bulgaria
Hubenov, 2015: month(s): 8.
Hubenov, 2016: month(s): 8.
Channel Is
Stubbs, 2022b: month(s): 6.
Czech Rep.
Stary et al., 2005a: month(s): 5.
Stary and Vonicka, 2018: month(s): 5-7, 9-10.
France
Quindroit, 2020a: month(s): 5, 10.
Quindroit, 2020b: month(s): 4, 10.
Quindroit, 2020b: month(s): 4, 10.
Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: month(s): 4-6.
Great Britain
Godfrey, 2001a: month(s): 5.
Cole, 2002: month(s): 10.
Boardman, 2007: month(s): 4-5, 9-10.
Phillips, 2007: month(s): 8.
Skidmore, 2008a: month(s): 6.
Skidmore, 2008b: month(s): 6.
Kramer, 2009f: month(s): 5.
Hancock, 2011a: month(s): 6.
Kramer, 2011j: month(s): 5-6, 10.
Chandler, 2015: month(s): 6, 10.
Hancock, 2018a: month(s): 4.
Boardman, 2021b: month(s): 8.
Ireland
Ashe et al., 2007b: month(s): 4-10.
Netherlands
Oosterbroek and Dek, 2020: month(s): 4-5, 9.
Norway
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: month(s): 7(-9).
Poland
Wiedenska, 2017a: month(s): 6, 9.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 6.
Romania
Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: month(s): 5.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2011e: month(s): 7.
Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: month(s): 6.
Pilipenko et al., 2020: month(s): 9.
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: month(s): 8.
Slovakia
Stary, 2009d: month(s): 5-7.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 5-10.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Bulgaria
Hubenov, 2015: altitude: 1900-2000 m.
Hubenov, 2016: altitude: 2389 m.
Hubenov, 2017: altitude: 1900-2389 m.
Hubenov, 2021a: altitude: 1700-2389 m.
Hubenov, 2025b: altitude: 1700-2389 m.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2017a: altitude: 800-980 m.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 750 m.
Romania
Ujvarosi and Poti, 2006: altitude: 670 m.
Russia
Kolcsar et al., 2021b: altitude: 494-531 m.
Slovakia
Stary, 2009d: altitude: 850-870 m.

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