Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World: Ctenophora (Cnemoncosis) yezoana Matsumura, 1906

Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World

(Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)

Name:	Ctenophora (Cnemoncosis) yezoana Matsumura, 1906
Publication:	Thousand Ins. Japan 2: 124 (as Ctenophora)
Status:	Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): uniplagiata (Alexander, 1925).
Classification:	Family Tipulidae Subfamily Ctenophorinae
Descriptive note:	Short description and synonymy: Alexander, 1936j. Ctenophora yezoana is the only Ctenophoa known from the Korean Peninsula.
Keys:	Men and Huang, 2014 (World species Ctenophora)
Variant spelling(s):	jezoana

Distribution:	Russia: FE (Sakhalin (incl. Kuril Is)); South Korea; Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu). Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):	Eastpalaearctic

Biology:	In Jo, 2012, larvae are described and figured of two unidentified species of Ctenophora from South Korea.
Figure references:	Habitus: Kinota, 2006 (female)

Citations	on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
	Japan Distribution. Kinota, 2006: 184 (loc(s) Sapporo) (in Japanese). Distribution. Kato, 2023a: 31 (loc(s) Honshu) (in Japanese). Distribution. Kato and Endo, 2025: 22 (loc(s) Honshu) (in Japanese).
	South Korea Distribution. Jo, 2012: 70 (checklist Tipulidae South Korea). Distribution. Podenas, 2013: 24-25 (literature overview of North and South Korean records).
	on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
	Japan Kato, 2023a: month(s): 6-7. Kato and Endo, 2025: month(s): 7-8.