Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World: Dicranota (Rhaphidolabis) cayuga (Alexander, 1916)

Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World

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

Details for Dicranota (Rhaphidolabis) cayuga

Name:	Dicranota (Rhaphidolabis) cayuga (Alexander, 1916)
Publication:	Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 68: 543 (as Rhaphidolabis)
Status:	Recognized taxon.
Classification:	Family Pediciidae Subfamily Pediciinae
Descriptive note:	Short description in Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g).

Distribution:	Canada, USA (Alaska to Nfld, south to Oreg, Colo and SC). Note: see the manual for abbreviations: Canada and USA.
Region(s):	Nearctic
General note:	Added: SC (Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g)). See also rubescens Alexander.

Biology:	Alexander, 1916g (orig descr), 1919e, 1927c, 1954a (habitat). Alexander, 1920r (larva, biology, supposition). Young and Gelhaus, 2000 (habitat, phenology)
Figure references:	Wing: Needham, 1907 (pl. 13, fig. 1, as tenuipes); Alexander, 1916g (orig descr); Alexander, 1919e; Alexander, 1927o; Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g) Hypopygium: Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g)

Citations	on biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
	Canada Habitat. Gathmann and Williams, 2006: 148 (emergence and abundance in cold water springs in Ont; many species of the carnivorous genus Dicranota are predominantly found burrowing in well-oxygenated banks of coarse sand which are typical of large rheocrenes).
	USA Habitat. Byers, 2002: 20 (marshy areas with ferns and broadleaved plants overhanging small brooks).
	on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
	Canada Distribution. Gathmann and Williams, 2006: 148 (loc(s) Ont). Distribution. Brodo in litt., 2009: (not known from NWT and Nunavut).
	USA Distribution. Byers, 2002: 20 (loc(s) Va, distr).
	on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
	USA Byers, 2002: month(s): 4, 8.
	on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
	USA Byers, 2002: altitude: 716-1174 m.

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