| Name: | Tipula (Nippotipula) abdominalis (Say, 1823) | | Publication: | J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 3: 18 (as Ctenophora) | | Status: | Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): albilatus Walker, 1848. | | Classification: | Family Tipulidae
Subfamily Tipulinae
| | Descriptive note: | According to Gelhaus, 2016, actually consisting of three species, one being undescribed and the other the unrecognized Tipula metacomet Alexander, 1965. Short description in Alexander, 1943k (reprint: 1966g), and Young and Gelhaus, 2000. Synonymy: Alexander, 1931b. | | | | Distribution: | Canada, USA (Minn to Ont, Que and Nfld, south to Kans, La and Fla).
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: Canada and USA. | | Region(s): | Nearctic | | | | Biology: | Alexander, 1915h, 1919e, 1924k (habitat). Alexander, 1920r (food larva, pupation, immature stages, biology). Young and Gelhaus, 2000 (habitat, phenology). | Figure
references: | Habitus: White and Salisbury, 2000 (female); Papp, 2001 (male, female); Marshall, 2006 (male); Hahn, 2009 (female)
Wing: Alexander, 1919e
Hypopygium: Alexander, 1919e; Alexander, 1965m
Immature stages
Larva: Alexander, 1920r; Young, 2004; Anonymous, 2008c
Pupa: Alexander, 1920r
| | | | Citations | | | Country not relevant
Biology. Gudin et al., 2022: 398, 403 (paper includes an updated catalogue of dipteran hosts of Tachinidae with list of the tachinid species involved, citing various authors; of the host records from Diptera, most are from larvae of Tabanidae and Tipulidae, with a few occasional records in other families). | | Nearctic
Biology. Gelhaus, 2016: poster (found in streams with a forested riparian zone, the larva is a shredder in leafpacks and probably the most encountered aquatic crane fly larva in eastern US streams). | | USA
Habitat. Byers, 2002: 10 (larvae in decomposing plant material at edges of small streams and ponds).
Biology. Cook et al., 2007: 5683 (an aquatic crane fly ubiquitous in aquatic riparian environments; larvae are shredders, a functional feeding group of insects that consume coarse particulate organic matter, primarily leaf litter).
Biology. Cook et al., 2007: 5683-5686 (on isolation of polymer-degrading bacteria and characterization of the hindgut bacterial community).
Biology. Eggert and Wallace, 2007: 1239-1245 (study to estimate assimilation efficiencies of leaves and wood for three detritivores; see paper for details). | | | | Country not relevant
Immatures. Young, 2004: 782 (figs: larva).
Phylogeny. Bertone et al., 2008: 674-679 (included in phylogenetic analysis of the earliest true flies based on multiple nuclear genes).
Phylogeny. Bertone, 2008: 1-282 (included in phylogenetic study on macroevolutionary relationships among families of lower Diptera (Insecta): molecular systematics, divergence times and a phylogeny of the Tipulidae sensu lato).
Phylogeny. Petersen et al., 2010a: 526-543 (member of a detailed morphological and molecular phylogenetic study into the higher-level classification of the Tipuloidea).
Phylogeny. Beckenbach, 2011: 89-101 (phylogeny Mecoptera and lower Diptera based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Caravas and Friedrich, 2012: Table S1 (morphological exemplar taxon [the only Tipuloidea] in a study titled: Shaking the Diptera tree of life: performance analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data partitions).
Phylogeny. Lambkin et al., 2012: File S1 (morphological exemplar taxon [the only Tipuloidea] in a study on the phylogenetic relationships among infraorders and superfamilies of Diptera based on morphological evidence).
Immatures. Lancaster and Downes, 2013: 230 (larval gut morphology, figs).
Phylogeny. Zhang, X. et al., 2016a: e0158167 (phylogeny Nematocera, Tipulomorpha and Tipuloidea based on comparitive Mt genomics).
Phylogeny. Kang et al., 2019: 2662-2663 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Ren et al., 2019a: 719-720 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Ren et al., 2019b: 3092-3093 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Ren et al., 2019c: 3742-3743 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Zhang, B. et al., 2019a: 240-241 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Zhang, B. et al., 2019b: 2367-2368 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Zhao et al., 2019: 4211-4212 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Ci and Kang, 2021: 674-677 (mitochondrial genome sequencing Trichoceridae: outgroup taxon; phylogeny Tipuloidea and Trichoceridae).
Phylogeny. Zhang, B. et al., 2021a: 1321-1323 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Zhao et al., 2021: 115-118 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Zhang, X. et al., 2022: 1-17 (mitochondrial genome used in a study with the title: New data on the mitochondrial genome of Nematocera (lower Diptera): features, structures and phylogenetic implications).
Phylogeny. Gao, Y. et al., 2023: 233-235 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Kang et al., 2023: 735-741 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Song et al., 2023: 7-9 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Gao, Y. et al., 2024: 267-288 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Feng et al., 2025: 4-17 (phylogeny Tipuloidea based on mitochondrial genome sequencing).
Phylogeny. Podeniene et al., 2025: (phylogeny Eremotipula: outgroup taxon). | | Nearctic
Taxonomy. Gelhaus, 2016: poster (actually consisting of three species, one being undescribed and the other the unrecognized Tipula metacomet Alexander, 1965). | | USA
Characters. White and Salsbury, 2000: 379 (short descr, figs). | | | | USA
Distribution. Byers, 2002: 10 (loc(s) Va, distr).
Distribution. Byers and Rossman, 2004: 885 (loc(s) La, distr).
Distribution. Petersen et al., 2005: 12 (recorded from Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Hynes, 1996 (unpublished)).
Distribution. Eggert and Wallace, 2007: 1240 (loc(s) NC).
Distribution. Bertone, 2008: table 1 (USA, Iowa, no further data).
Distribution. Byers et al., 2008: 374 (loc(s) Ark).
Distribution. Hahn, 2009: 100 (loc(s) Minn).
Distribution. Brodo et al., 2022a: 52 (list of Tipuloidea collected in the NY, Putnam County, town of Kent). | | | | USA
Byers, 2002: month(s): 8.
Byers and Rossman, 2004: month(s): 10.
Byers et al., 2008: month(s): 9.
Hahn, 2009: month(s): 7-8. | | | | USA
Byers, 2002: altitude: 534-937 m. |
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