Details for Phylidorea (Phylidorea) abdominalis
Name:Phylidorea (Phylidorea) abdominalis (Staeger, 1840)
Publication:Naturh. Tidsskr. 3: 29 (as Limnophila)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): robusta (Wahlgren, 1905).
Classification:Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limnophilinae
Keys:Krivosheina, M.G., 2010 (larvae 6 Phylidorea species); Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2014c, 2016c (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016g; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC.
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic
General note:Added: Ireland (Ashe et al., 1991). 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.
Map:Ashe et al., 2005a (Ireland); Podenas et al., 2006 (Switzerland)
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references:
Habitus: Lundstrom and Fritz, 2015 (male); Quindroit and Racine, 2025 (male)
Wing: Podenas et al., 2006; Lundstrom and Fritz, 2015
Hypopygium: Podenas et al., 2006

Miscellaneous
Lundstrom and Fritz, 2015 (habitat)
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
Habitat. Paramonov and Sushko, 2010: 45 (loc(s), distr, about fauna of raised bogs, for details see paper) (in Russian).
Finland
Habitat. Salmela and Autio, 2007b: 49 (a species indicating conservation value or naturalness of wetlands; collected from rich fens, mesotrophic mires and eutrophic lake shores).
Biology. Salmela, 2008: 10, 20, 24-26, 30-32, 50 (49) (ecology or habitat: rich fen, mire dwelling species favouring eutrophic conditions; phenology).
Habitat. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48, 50 (habitats Aland Is, a mineroptrophic fen-dwelling species).
Habitat. Salmela, 2012c: 13 (classified as a mire-dwelling species).
Habitat. Autio et al., 2013: 1128, 1130 (species of intermediate rich fens, one of the species found in a study on species richness and rarity in a boreal mire).
France
Habitat. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021a: 24, 25, 28 (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: 30 (loc(s) Oise (60) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 341 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire region, distr) (in French).
Great Britain
Habitat. Howe and Howe, 2001: 34, 40, 43-45 (base-rich fen and mire, lagg and swamp vegetation).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2003: 52, 65 (a species of poor fen, including that associated with heathland; typically it occurs on wet peat with vegetation that is not over dense; the larvae of Phylidorea are aquatic/semi-aquatic; they probably thrive on areas that are very wet in the winter, but by summer adults are found over wet peat rather than flooded peat, and there is no affinity with deeper waters in ditches unless there is a floating raft; the paper includes further details on monitoring techniques).
Habitat. Boyce, 2004: 32, 74, 78, 104 (a species of lowland bogs, especially valley bogs and poor fens, there appears to be an association with areas of bare wet peat in which the larvae are thought to develop).
Habitat. Crossley, 2008: 94 (on noteworthy Diptera from the North York Moors National Park; occurs in quantity at Fen Bog, the only know post 1920 Yorkshire locality).
Habitat. Cranston and Drake, 2010: 175 (Phylidorea larvae can be found in marginal situations along standing waters [no species mentioned]).
Habitat. Stubbs, 2014b: 2 (loc(s) Scotland; see paper for details on habitat).
Lithuania
Habitat. Podeniene, 2001a: 84 (larvae were found in leaf fallings in low-laying marshland in Alnus forest (Carici elongatae-Alnetum)).
Romania
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 237, 247 (swamps, moist soil, citing various sources).
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2005b: 67 (adults were collected from swampy vegetation at peat bogs).
Habitat. Ujvarosi and Poti, 2006: 255-256 (habitat in Dupa Lunca marshland: damp meadows).
Habitat. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 108 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Russia
Habitat. Przhiboro, 2003: 364 (larvae in the water margin zone of an eutrophic lake; rearing).
Habitat. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 97 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, habitat, citing various authors) (in Russian).
Sweden
Habitat. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 18, 25, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 44, 48, 53 (on distribution, ecology, habitat preference and habitat conservation in a method study and species inventory in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Phylogeny. Ahonen, 2007: 1-28 (included in phylogenetic analysis of Tipuloidea subfamilies relationships based on molecular data).
Immatures. Krivosheina, M.G., 2010a: 19 (key to larvae of 6 Phylidorea species) (for key in English see Krivosheina, M.G., 2010b).
Immatures. Podeniene and Gelhaus, 2010: 200-202 (larvae of the genus Phylidorea can be divided into the abdominalis, ferruginea and squalens groups based on the sclerotization of the spiracular field, abdominalis is the only member of the abdominalis group).
Sweden
Description. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 56-57 (description, figs) (in Schwedish).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
First record. Paramonov and Sushko, 2010: 45 (loc(s), distr, about fauna of raised bogs, for details see paper) (in Russian).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen and Jong, 2001b: 151 (checklist).
Estonia
Distribution. Stary, 2004f: (Fauna Europaea: added Estonia).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela, 2002: 30-32 (loc(s) lake Iidesjarvi) (in Finnish).
Distribution. Salmela and Autio, 2007b: 49, 54 (loc(s), distr).
Distribution. Salmela, 2008: 10, 50 (49) (loc(s), known from all Finnish ecoregions).
Distribution. Autio and Salmela, 2010: 48 (loc(s) Aland Is).
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 239 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 28 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
Distribution. Salmela et al., 2015: 106 (list of localities in extensive report on malaise-trapping of insects in conservation areas in Lapland in 2012–2014) (in Finnish).
France
Distribution. Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: 228 (list of craneflies captured 25-27 june 2019 in Ravin de Valbois, Doubs (25)).
Distribution not confirmed. Quindroit, 2020b: 140 (Pierre 1924 Nord de la France in need of confirmation) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2021a: 24, 25, 28 (loc(s), resultats de deux campagnes de piegeage dans le Pas-de-Calais (62); see paper for details on habitat).
Distribution. Tissot et al., 2021: 209 (the Diptera of the Reserves Naturelles Nationales du Doubs (25), results of Malaise trapping since 2009) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 30 (loc(s) Oise (60) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 38 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Hauts-de-France region).
Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 341 (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: 359 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht, 1999: 131, 134 (loc(s), checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Reusch and Oosterbroek, 2000: 156 (checklist German Bundeslander).
Distribution. Reusch and Bellstedt, 2001b: 72 (checklist Thuringen).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 6 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Schumann, 2008: (species recorded from Brandenburg, including Berlin, after material present in the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin with specification of period of years).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 18 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Great Britain
Distribution. Howe and Howe, 2001: 34, 40, 43-45 (see paper for details on loc(s) in which of the eight vice-counties visited).
Distribution. Crossley, 2003a: 41 (loc(s) Yorkshire).
Distribution. Crossley, 2003b: 62 (loc(s) Sheffield).
Distribution. Stubbs, 2003: 65 (distr in GB).
Distribution. Boyce, 2004: 32, 74, 78, 104 (distr).
Distribution. Crossley, 2008: 94 (on noteworthy Diptera from the North York Moors National Park; occurs in quantity at Fen Bog, the only know post 1920 Yorkshire locality).
Distribution. Drake, 2009: 54 (loc(s) Norfolk fens, widespread but found only as occasional individuals).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 128 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr).
Distribution. Kramer, 2011f: 2 (loc(s) Devon).
Distribution. Kramer, 2012g: 2 (loc(s) New Forest).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Distribution. Stubbs, 2014b: 2 (loc(s) Scotland; see paper for details on habitat).
Distribution. Cunningham, 2017: 17 (loc(s) Devon).
Distribution. Boardman, 2018: 3 (loc(s) Dorset).
Ireland
Distribution. Ashe et al., 2005a: 317, 332 (review single Irish record).
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 12 (checklist).
Lithuania
Distribution. Podeniene, 2001a: 84 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 23 (checklist).
Netherlands
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002b: 32 (checklist).
Norway
Distribution. Olsen et al., 2018: 158-159 (annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
Poland
Distribution. Wiedenska, 2007a: 76 (checklist).
Romania
First record. Ujvarosi, 2005a: 237, 247 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2005b: 67 (loc(s), distr).
Distribution. Ujvarosi and Poti, 2006: 255-256 (loc(s) eastern Carpathians).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 228-231 (checklist Limoniidae).
Distribution. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 108 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Russia
Distribution. Polevoi and Humala, 2003: 70 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya).
Distribution. Przhiboro, 2003: 364 (loc(s) NW Russia).
Distribution. Humala and Polevoi, 2009: 66 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya) (in Russian).
Distribution. Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: (loc(s) RUN: Arkhangelskaya oblast).
Distribution. Jakovlev et al., 2014: 309 (loc(s) RUN: Kareliya).
Distribution. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 97 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, habitat, citing various authors) (in Russian).
Distribution. Esin et al., 2023: Electronic Suppl. (loc(s) RUC, Mordoviya Rep.).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009i: webpage (checklist).
Sweden
Distribution. Lindstrom and Fritz, 2015: 18, 25, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 44, 48, 53 (on distribution, ecology, habitat preference and habitat conservation in a method study and species inventory in five fens in Hallands County) (in Schwedish).
Switzerland
First record. Podenas et al., 2006: 147, 321 (map, vertical distr per thermic level).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Belarus
Paramonov and Sushko, 2010: month(s): 8.
Finland
Salmela, 2008: month(s): 6-8.
France
Kramer and Langlois, 2019b: month(s): 6.
Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: month(s): 5-6.
Germany
Schacht, 1999: month(s): 5-9.
Great Britain
Howe and Howe, 2001: month(s): 6.
Crossley, 2003b: month(s): 5-7.
Drake, 2009: month(s): 5-6.
Kramer, 2012g: month(s): 5.
Stubbs, 2014b: month(s): 6.
Cunningham, 2017: month(s): 7.
Ireland
Ashe et al., 2005a: month(s): 6.
Romania
Ujvarosi, 2005b: month(s): 5.
Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: month(s): 6.
Russia
Przhiboro, 2003: month(s): 5.
Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: month(s): 8.
Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: month(s): 5-6.
Esin et al., 2023: month(s): 5.
Switzerland
Podenas et al., 2006: month(s): 6.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Germany
Schacht, 1999: altitude: 590 m.
Romania
Ujvarosi, 2005b: altitude: 670-720 m.
Ujvarosi and Poti, 2006: altitude: 670 m.
Russia
Gavryushin in litt., 2011f: altitude: 19 m.

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