Details for Pedicia (Crunobia) straminea
Name:Pedicia (Crunobia) straminea (Meigen, 1838)
Publication:Syst. Beschr. 7: 28 (as Limnobia)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): ?geniculata (Meigen and Wiedemann, 1818); schienerii (Kolenati, 1859).
Classification:Family Pediciidae
Subfamily Pediciinae
Keys:Mendl, 1974c (yellow European Crunobia species); Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2014a, 2014c, 2016c (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Denes et al., 2016a (World species Crunobia); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016f; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (Pyrenees), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC, RUE.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic
General note:Added: Ireland (Ashe et al., 1991). 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 Russia: RUE (Middle Volga region) (in Chuzhekova, 2015, based on larvae only).
Map:Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire)
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references:
Habitus: Denes et al., 2016a (male); Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013 (male)
Wing: Podenas et al., 2006
Hypopygium: Mendl, 1974c; Podenas et al., 2006; Denes et al., 2016a

Immature stages
Larva: Podeniene, 2003a

Miscellaneous
Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013 (habitat); Quindroit, 2022d (habitat)
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Habitat. Schultz et al., 2006: 351 (Hochmoor).
Czech Rep.
Habitat. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: 70 (on Limoniidae and Pediciidae of two localities in northern Bohemia, with list of localities, altitudes and habitats).
Finland
Habitat. Salmela, 2001a: 143-146, 152 (a common species around springs in southern Finland in late summer and autumn; (very common predator in springs and other habitats in Europe, citing various sources)).
Habitat. Salmela, 2004: 3-6, 9 (species restricted to spring areas (crenobiont)).
France
Habitat. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (at small river with beautiful limestone seepage).
Habitat. Kramer, 2008c: 12 (collected at a limestone wooded stream-filled gorge, the stream can be torrential with moss covered boulders, and there are seepages from the steep sides of the limstone gorge).
Habitat. Labat, 2013: 70, 74 (on a sampling campaign on the Dordogne river sources, five Upper-Dordogne tributaries and a travertine, Auvergne, with information on the biocenotypes; see paper for details) (in French).
Habitat. Breil-Moubayed and Garrigue, 2014: 68 (in: Biocenoses aquatiques et subaquatiques de la vallee fluviale de la Massane. Etude diachronique; Pyrenees-Orientales (66)).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2022d: 418 (habitat photo loc(s) Pyrenees-Orientales (66)).
Habitat. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 345 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire region, distr) (in French).
Germany
Habitat. Ruckert, 2005: 47, 53 (found in a study on the association with the type of source: limnokrene, rheokrene, or helokrene in Schlesig-Holstein; almost entirely restricted to rheokrene sources; see paper for details, as well as Anhang A2-A10).
Habitat. Wittrock, 2005: 85 (summer emergence; krenophil; helokrene and rheokrene).
Habitat. Reusch and Schrankel, 2006: 181 (Quellbereichen; Larven aquatisch, in Quellbereichen und kleinen Bachen; Larven zoophag).
Habitat. Reusch, 2006: 134 (Kalkquellmoor [carbonate fen complex]).
Habitat. Ruckert et al., 2007: 56 (Krenophil).
Habitat. Lehmann and Reusch, 2009: 122 (from around lowland springs).
Habitat. Reusch and Hohmann, 2009: 130 (from spring brooks).
Great Britain
Habitat. Godfrey, 2000a: 21.
Habitat. Heaver, 2006: 78 (tufa flushes).
Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 37 (in Shropshire the habitat preference is small streams in woodland).
Habitat. Cranston and Drake, 2010: 175 (larvae can be found in marginal situations along flowing waters).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2015: 27 (collected where calcareous seepages have formed tufa, partly moss coverered).
Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 29, 40 (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).
Lithuania
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003b: 10, 21, 28 (larval habitat: sand in littoral zone of lakes).
Luxembourg
Habitat. Kolcsar et al., 2018b: 6 (prefers pebbly stream beds).
Norway
Habitat. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 217 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Habitat. Chaniecka and Wiedenska, 2006: 145, 149 (occurrence in spring-, springbrook-, and/or bogspring plant communities) (in Polish).
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2007b: 77 (montane species).
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2014: 15 (on the occurence of Pediciidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English).
Phenology. Wiedenska, 2015a: 46, 54 (on the flight activity of Limoniidae in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians; probably two generations a year, with flight diagrams; new correct flight diagrams are given in Wiedenska, 2017b) (in Polish, tables also in English).
Habitat. Wiedenska, 2017a: 27 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Romania
Habitat. Parvu, 2003: 234.
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 237, 248 (brook, springs, swamp, moist soil, citing various sources).
Habitat. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 109 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Sweden
Habitat. Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013: 22-24, 49-50, 63 (on distribution, habitat preference and habitat conservation in nature reserved forest and tree habitats in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Ukraine
Habitat. Kolcsar and Torok, 2017: 26 (springs in Spruce [Picea] forests, small brook).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Characters. Ujvarosi and Stary, 2003: 48- 49 (comparison).
Phylogeny. Ahonen, 2007: 1-28 (included in phylogenetic analysis of Tipuloidea subfamilies relationships based on molecular data).
Phylogeny. Keresztes et al., 2012: 83-112 (on case studies of divergence, distribution, refugia in Pediciidae (Insecta, Diptera) in the Carpathians; see paper for details).
Phylogeny. Ujvarosi and Balint, 2012: 11, 13 (used as outgroup taxon).
Key. Denes et al., 2016a: 95-98 (key Crunobia).
Phylogeny. Denes et al., 2016a: 99 (comparison, phylogeny (morphological and molecular incl. barcoding)).
Phylogeny. Denes et al., 2016b: 719-731 (phylogeography of micro-endemic Pedicia staryi group; evidence of relict biodversity in the Carpathinas; see paper for details and Denes et al., 2016a for species descriptions).
Great Britain
Characters. Boardman, 2007: 37-38 (characters).
Lithuania
Immatures. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Distribution. Schultz et al., 2006: 351 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Reusch and Heiss, 2012: 333-342 (loc(s) Nat. Park Gesause, see PDF for months and altitudes).
Distribution. Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: 142 (loc(s) Osttirol).
Bosnia-Herzegowina
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature).
Country not relevant
Distribution. Keresztes et al., 2012: 83-112 (on case studies of divergence, distribution, refugia in Pediciidae (Insecta, Diptera) in the Carpathians; see paper for details).
Distribution. Denes et al., 2016b: 719-731 (phylogeography of micro-endemic Pedicia staryi group; evidence of relict biodversity in the Carpathinas; see paper for details and Denes et al., 2016a for species descriptions).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary et al., 2005b: 32 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Stary, 2009j: webpage (checklist).
Distribution. Stary and Vonicka, 2018: 70 (on Limoniidae and Pediciidae of two localities in northern Bohemia, with list of localities, altitudes and habitats).
Estonia
Distribution. Stary, 2004g: (Fauna Europaea: added Estonia).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela, 2001a: 143-146, 152 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2004: 3-6, 9 (loc(s), distr).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2007b: 37, 46 (abundance, loc(s)).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 242 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 23 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2015: 105 (list of localities in extensive report on malaise-trapping of insects in conservation areas in Lapland in 2012–2014) (in Finnish).
France
Distribution. Kramer, 2007a: 33 (loc(s) Savoie (73)).
Distribution. Kramer, 2008c: 12 (loc(s) Savoie (73)).
Distribution. Labat, 2013: 70, 74 (on a sampling campaign on the Dordogne river sources, five Upper-Dordogne tributaries and a travertine, Auvergne, with information on the biocenotypes; see paper for details) (in French).
Distribution. Breil-Moubayed and Garrigue, 2014: 68 (in: Biocenoses aquatiques et subaquatiques de la vallee fluviale de la Massane. Etude diachronique; Pyrenees-Orientales (66)).
Distribution. Tillier et al., 2020e: 241 (loc(s) Hautes-Alpes) (in French).
Distribution. Labat, 2021: 93 (on Diptera taxa recorded along the over-all length of the Dordogne River and some of its tributaries; see paper for the locality details) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2022d: 418 (habitat photo loc(s) Pyrenees-Orientales (66)).
Distribution. Lemoine and Quindroit, 2023: 10 (loc(s) Hautes-Alpes (05)).
Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 345 (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: 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: 164 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Distribution. Reusch and Bellstedt, 2001b: 76 (checklist Thuringen).
Distribution. Ruckert, 2005: 47, 53 (found in a study on the association with the type of source: limnokrene, rheokrene, or helokrene in Schlesig-Holstein; almost entirely restricted to rheokrene sources; see paper for details, as well as Anhang A2-A10).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 4 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Wittrock, 2005: 85 (loc(s) Schleswig-Holstein).
Distribution. Reusch and Schrankel, 2006: 181 (loc(s) Bayern, Nationalpark Berchtesgaden, distr).
Distribution. Reusch, 2006: 134 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Ruckert et al., 2007: 56 (loc(s) Schleswig-Holstein).
Distribution. Lehmann and Reusch, 2009: 122 (loc(s) Niedersachsen).
Distribution. Reusch and Hohmann, 2009: 130 (loc(s) Sachsen-Anhalt).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 17 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 163 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources).
Great Britain
Distribution. Godfrey, 2000a: 21 (see paper for details of sites surveyed in Shropshire and into Wales).
Distribution. Heaver, 2006: 78 (loc(s) Herefordshire, Lancashire).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 37-38 (loc(s), map).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 125 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr).
Distribution. Morris, 2010a: 15 (loc(s) Scottish Borders).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Distribution. Stubbs, 2015: 27 (loc(s) Nottingham).
Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 29, 40 (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).
Hungary
Distribution. Kolcsar and Keresztes, 2016: 122 (loc(s), confirmed for Hungary; see paper for details).
Ireland
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 8 (checklist).
Italy
Distribution. Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: 350, 353 (loc(s), annotated checklist South Tyrol [Prov. Bolzano]).
Latvia
First record. Stary, 2004g: (Fauna Europaea: added Latvia).
Lithuania
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 25 (checklist).
Luxembourg
First record. Kolcsar et al., 2018b: 6 (loc(s)).
Montenegro
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature).
Netherlands
First record. Theowald, 1971b: 224, 233 (XXX).
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002c: 37 (checklist).
North Macedonia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature).
Norway
Distribution. Olsen et al., 2018: 152-153 (annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
Distribution. Olsen and Andersen, 2021: 217 (loc(s) Innlandet, in former Hedmark, with habitats specified separately, for habitats see also Jonassen and Andersen, 2020).
Poland
Distribution. Chaniecka and Wiedenska, 2006: 145, 149 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007b: 77 (checklist).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2010: 136 (loc(s) Parku Krajobrazowego Wzniesien Lodzkich, Lodz).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2014: 15 (on the occurence of Pediciidae in six selected plant communities in the Kamienica Valley, Gorce National Park, Western Carpathians) (in Polish, habitat tables also in English).
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2017a: 27 (faunistic and habitat data of species from the Gorce NP) (in Polish).
Distribution. Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: 152 (loc(s) Bieszczady Mountains, distr and remarks).
Romania
Distribution. Parvu, 2003: 234 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Ujvarosi and Stary, 2003: 48, 49 (loc(s), checklist).
Distribution. Parvu, 2004: 187 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 231-232 (checklist Pediciidae).
Distribution. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 109 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2012: 25 (checklist Romania).
Distribution. Ujvarosi and Balint, 2012: 28 (loc(s)).
Russia
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2011e: (loc(s) RUN: RUN: Murmanskaya oblast).
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2012e: (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep.).
Distribution not confirmed. Chuzhekova, 2015: 212, 241 (on macrozoobenthos communities in spring brooks of Middle Volga) (PhD thesis, in Russian, 242 pages; for English summary see Chuzhekova, 2016, 37 pages).
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2015a: (loc(s) RUE: Bashkortostan Rep.).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2023a: 12 (loc(s) RUC: Moskovskaya oblast, RUE: Tatarstan Rep.).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009e: 40 (loc(s) Polana area).
Distribution. Stary, 2009j: webpage (checklist).
Slovenia
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Simova-Tosic, 2004: 443 (review literature).
Distribution. Kolcsar et al., 2023b: 32 (loc(s)).
Spain
First record. Eiroa, 2002b: 65 (checklist, loc(s) Huesca).
Distribution. Stary and Oosterbroek, 2008: 18 (loc(s), Spanish provinces, distr).
Sweden
Distribution. Fritz and Lindstrom, 2013: 22-24, 49-50, 63 (on distribution, habitat preference and habitat conservation in nature reserved forest and tree habitats in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Switzerland
Distribution. Podenas et al., 2006: 187, 356 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
Ukraine
Distribution. Kolcsar and Torok, 2017: 26 (loc(s) Carpathians).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: month(s): 8.
Czech Rep.
Stary and Vonicka, 2018: month(s): 5-9(10).
Finland
Salmela, 2001a: month(s): 5-10.
France
Kramer, 2007a: month(s): 6.
Kramer, 2008c: month(s): 5.
Tillier et al., 2020e: month(s): 7-9.
Quindroit, 2022d: month(s): 7.
Lemoine and Quindroit, 2023: month(s): 6.
Quindroit and Racine, 2025: month(s): 10.
Germany
Reusch and Schrankel, 2006: month(s): 6-9.
Great Britain
Godfrey, 2000a: month(s): 6.
Morris, 2010a: month(s): 9.
Stubbs, 2015: month(s): 7.
Italy
Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: month(s): 7.
Luxembourg
Kolcsar et al., 2018b: month(s): 9.
Norway
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: month(s): (6)7.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2014: month(s): 5-10.
Wiedenska, 2015a: month(s): 6-9.
Wiedenska, 2017a: month(s): 6-9.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: month(s): 6-8.
Romania
Parvu, 2003: month(s): 8.
Parvu, 2004: month(s): 6-8.
Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: month(s): 6.
Ujvarosi and Balint, 2012: month(s): 7.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2011e: month(s): 7.
Gavryushin in litt., 2012e: month(s): 8.
Gavryushin in litt., 2015a: month(s): 7.
Kolcsar et al., 2023a: month(s): 7-9.
Slovakia
Stary, 2009e: month(s): 5-7, 9.
Slovenia
Kolcsar et al., 2023b: month(s): 7.
Spain
Eiroa, 2002b: month(s): 7-8.
Stary and Oosterbroek, 2008: month(s): 7.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 5-10.
Ukraine
Kolcsar and Torok, 2017: month(s): 7.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: altitude: 725-1200 m.
France
Tillier et al., 2020e: altitude: 1850 m.
Labat, 2021: altitude: 1241-1357 m.
Quindroit, 2022d: altitude: 2100 m.
Quindroit and Racine, 2025: altitude: 295 m.
Germany
Reusch and Schrankel, 2006: altitude: 1100-1250 m.
Reusch and Hohmann, 2009: altitude: 375-842 m.
Italy
Podenas and Podeniene, 2008: altitude: 1220 m.
Luxembourg
Kolcsar et al., 2018b: altitude: 187 m.
Norway
Olsen and Andersen, 2021: altitude: 290-660 m.
Poland
Wiedenska, 2017a: altitude: 600-1260 m.
Wiedenska and Syratt, 2023: altitude: 600-1200 m.
Romania
Ujvarosi and Stary, 2003: altitude: 800 m.
Ujvarosi and Balint, 2012: altitude: 1690 m.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2012e: altitude: 607 m.
Gavryushin in litt., 2015a: altitude: 607 m.
Kolcsar et al., 2023a: altitude: 80-220 m.
Slovenia
Kolcsar et al., 2023b: altitude: 600 m.
Spain
Eiroa, 2002b: altitude: 1400-1600 m.
Ukraine
Kolcsar and Torok, 2017: altitude: 860-1800 m.

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