Details for Tipula (Savtshenkia) obsoleta
Name:Tipula (Savtshenkia) obsoleta Meigen, 1818
Publication:Syst. Beschr. 1: 179 (as Tipula)
Status:Recognized taxon, Synonym(s): clandestina Meigen, 1818.
Classification:Family Tipulidae
Subfamily Tipulinae
Descriptive note:Phylogeny: Jong, 1994c.
Keys:Peeters en Oosterbroek, 2016a (craneflies Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) (in Dutch); Boardman, 2016 (craneflies Shropshire); Stubbs and Kramer, 2016d; Stubbs, 2021 (British craneflies)
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Distribution:Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (Pyrenees), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Russia: RUN, RUW, RUC, RUE, North Caucasus; Georgia, Turkey (Asiatic part: Trabzon);; Kazakhstan (east).
Note: see the manual for abbreviations: present-day Russia.
Region(s):Westpalaearctic;; Eastpalaearctic
General note:Added: Ireland (Blackith et al., 1991; Chandler, 1998), Belarus (Zapolskaya, 1992). For Finland check Salmela, 2012b, 2012c, and citations below. For Norway check Hofsvang et al., 2019, and citations below. For Great Britain and Ireland check Stubbs, 2021, and citations below.
Map:Ashe et al., 2007a (Ireland); Boardman, 2007 (Shropshire)
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Habitus: Tillier and Dehalleux, 2019 (male)

Immature stages
Larva: Podeniene, 2003a
Citationson biology (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Habitat. Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: 131 (to be found in wet meadows and swamps).
Belgium
Biology. Peeters, 2023: 232 (loc(s) Botanic Garden Jean Massart, Brussels-Capital Region, common autumn species from a wide range of habitats).
France
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. Tillier and Dehalleux, 2019: 165-166 (loc(s) with habitat info, summary habitat) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020a: 23, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit, 2020b: 130 (loc(s) Nord (59) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Habitat. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 18 (loc(s) Aisne (02) and Somme (80) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Georgia
Habitat. Lantsov, 2000b: 149 (in wet and damp deciduous and mixed forests, larvae under moss cushions on stumps and at the base of tree trunks, cited from Savchenko) (in Russian, translation kindly provided by Vladimir Lantsov).
Germany
Habitat. Schacht et al., 2001: 428 (abbreviated habitat information).
Habitat. Heiss et al., 2017: 169, 178 (in einer Bodenfalle in artenreichem Feuchtgrunland).
Habitat. Heiss, 2017a: 563, 568, 571 (loc(s) Dinkelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg and table with details on presence in the various biotop-groups).
Great Britain
Habitat. Boardman, 2007: 27 (typically found at woodland edge, along hedgerows, in rough grassland, and sometimes in gardens).
Habitat. Showers, 2015: 2 (on craneflies in moth traps at Pitsford Water Nature Reserve in 2013 and 2014, including information for the two traps and photos of their habitat).
Habitat. Brighton, 2017c: 31, 44 (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, 2001a: 86 (larvae were found in low-laying marshy land).
Habitat. Podeniene, 2002: 306 (larvae were found in riparian zones of small rivulet).
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
Habitat. Podeniene, 2003b: 12, 20-24, 29 (larval habitat: hygropetrica, green mosses on the banks of rivulets and land-improvement channels).
Netherlands
Habitat. Oosterbroek and Jong, 2001: 107 (to be found in open habitats such as rough grasslands, margins of fields, peat bogs, woodland edges or hedgerows where it often occurs near open drainage systems or small brooks; larvae in mosses on stones and walls, and beneath mosses in forests, citing various authors).
Habitat. Oosterbroek and Jong, 2017c: 249 (loc(s) Zeeland, distr; short summary of habitat preferences) (in Dutch).
Biology. Peeters, 2023: 232 (common autumn species from a wide range of habitats).
Romania
Habitat. Ujvarosi, 2003: 59.
Habitat. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 111 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Russia
Habitat. Lantsov, 2002c: 114 (wet deciduous and mixed forests) (in Russian) (information on the Teberdinsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve kindly provided by Vladimir Lantsov).
Habitat. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 101 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, habitat, citing various authors) (in Russian).
on characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Characters. Devyatkov, 2024c: 289-290 (comparison) (in Russian with English summary and subscriptions).
Lithuania
Immatures. Podeniene, 2003a: 1-295 (larva, descr, figs, habitat) (in Lithuanian).
on distribution (mainly from 2000 onward):
Andorra
Distribution. Eiroa and Baez, 2002b: 80 (checklist).
Austria
Distribution. Vogtenhuber, 2011: 51 (checklist Austria, list of provinces).
Distribution. Aistleitner, 2015: 97 (loc(s) Vorarlberg).
Distribution. Heiss et al., 2016: 76, 81 (loc(s) Wien).
Distribution. Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: 131 (loc(s) Osttirol, distr in Austria, found at the highest Austrian altitude so far: 1320 m).
Belgium
Distribution. Peeters, 2023: 232 (loc(s) Botanic Garden Jean Massart, Brussels-Capital Region, common autumn species from a wide range of habitats).
Bosnia-Herzegowina
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 54 (review literature).
Croatia
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 54 (review literature).
Czech Rep.
Distribution. Stary, 2009k: webpage (checklist).
Denmark
Distribution. Petersen et al., 2001b: 163 (checklist).
Finland
Distribution. Salmela, 2012b: 241 (annotated list of Finnish crane flies).
Distribution. Salmela and Petrasiunas, 2014: 34 (checklist Finnish Tipulomorpha).
France
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 and Dehalleux, 2019: 165-166 (first records for Ile-de-France, loc(s) Seine-et-Marne (77) and Val-d’Oise (95)).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020a: 23, 45-48 (annotated list with information on abundancy and habitat of the Tipuloidea of the Pays de la Loire regoin, distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit, 2020b: 130 (loc(s) Nord (59) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 18 (loc(s) Aisne (02) and Somme (80) with notes on habitats and distr) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: 35 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Hauts-de-France region).
Distribution. Lemoine and Quindroit, 2023: 7 (loc(s) Val-de-Marne (94)).
Distribution. Tillier et al., 2023: 178 (loc(s) Haute-Saone (70) with list of altitude(s) and habitat(s)) (in French).
Distribution. Quindroit and Racine, 2025: 357 (table specifying the presence in the five departments of the Pays de la Loire region).
Georgia
Distribution. Lantsov, 2000b: 149 (on the species composition of crane flies of Abkhazia) (in Russian).
Germany
Distribution. Schacht et al., 2001: 428 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2005: 4 (checklist Bayern).
Distribution. Hable et al., 2010b: 89 (loc(s) Bayern).
Distribution. Schacht, 2010: 38 (checklist Diptera Bayern).
Distribution. Heiss et al., 2017: 169 (loc(s) Thuringen, review distr, habitats).
Distribution. Heiss, 2017a: 563, 568, 571 (loc(s) Dinkelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg and table with details on presence in the various biotop-groups).
Distribution. Heiss, 2017b: 23 (checklist Tipulidae Thuringen).
Distribution. Heiss et al., 2019: 252 (loc(s); annotated checklist of the Tipulidae of Niedersachsen and Bremen, including the presence in the surrounding Bundeslandern and the Netherlands) (in German).
Distribution. Stuke, 2019: 240 (checklist Niedersachsen and Bremen with reference to original sources).
Distribution. Heiss and Malec, 2023: 319, 323 (loc(s) Hessen, review German records) (in German).
Distribution. Heiss and Malec, 2023: 329 (annotated checklist Hessen).
Great Britain
Distribution. Corbet, 2004: 128 (loc(s) Durnbarnie Links, western Scotland).
Distribution. Boardman, 2007: 27 (distr, map).
Distribution. Skidmore, 2009: 124 (review of occurrence on the Western Isles of Scotland, distr).
Distribution. Kramer, 2013i: 8 (checklist of species from Leigh Woods NNR, Bristol district).
Distribution. Hewitt, 2014: (provisional checklist Cumbrian Diptera).
Distribution. Kramer, 2014c: 4 (in table of cranefly species recorded at Shapwick Heath NNR, as given in H. Audcent, 1949 and/or collected by J. Kramer in 2013).
Distribution. Wolton et al., 2014: 26 (among Diptera associated with a hedge in Devon).
Distribution. Showers, 2015: 2 (on craneflies in moth traps at Pitsford Water Nature Reserve in 2013 and 2014, including information for the two traps and photos of their habitat).
Distribution. Showers, 2016: 2 (loc(s) Northamptonshire).
Distribution. Brighton, 2017c: 31, 44 (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).
Distribution. Showers, 2017a: 4 (loc(s) Northamptonshire).
Distribution. Thirlwell, 2020: 171 (loc(s) Hants (V.C. 11)).
Ireland
Distribution. Ashe et al., 2007a: 302, 326, 354 (review Irish records, map).
Distribution. Ashe et al., 2008: 16 (additional Irish record(s), distr).
Distribution. Ashe et al., 2008: 17 (refers to record in Speight, 1990).
Distribution. Chandler et al., 2008: 6 (checklist).
Italy
Distribution. Oosterbroek, 2008c: 342 (annotated checklist South Tyrol [Prov. Bolzano]).
Kazakhstan
First record. Devyatkov, 2015: 216 (loc(s) east Kazakhstan) (in Russian).
Distribution. Devyatkov, 2021c: 297 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Distribution. Devyatkov, 2022b: 27 (loc(s) East Kazakhstan, distr) (in Russian).
Liechtenstein
First record. Aistleitner, 2015: 97 (loc(s)).
Lithuania
Distribution. Podeniene, 2001a: 86 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Podeniene, 2002: 306 (loc(s)).
Distribution. Pakalniskis et al., 2006: 28 (checklist).
Netherlands
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Jong, 2001: 107 (review Dutch records).
Distribution. Jong and Oosterbroek, 2002d: 42 (checklist).
Distribution. Oosterbroek, 2014: 258 (loc(s) Friesland).
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Jong, 2017c: 249 (loc(s) Zeeland, distr; short summary of habitat preferences) (in Dutch).
Distribution. Barendregt et al., 2019: 13 (loc(s) Vijheerenlanden).
Distribution. Oosterbroek and Jong, 2020: 46 (Tipulidae Kaaistoep, Noord-Brabant).
Norway
Distribution. Hofsvang et al., 2019: 123-124, 144-145 (review Norwegian records, annotated checklist Nordic countries and for Norway according to the Strand regions).
Poland
Distribution. Skibinska and Chudzicke, 2007b: 78 (checklist).
Romania
First record. Erhan and Theowald, 1961: XXX (loc(s)).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2003: 59 (review Romanian records, loc(s), distr).
Distribution. Ujvarosi, 2007: 232-233 (checklist Tipulidae).
Distribution. Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: 111 (loc(s) Dupa Lanca marshy area near Voslobeni) (in Hungarian, species list with habitat information in English).
Distribution. Torok et al., 2014: 19 (checklist Romania).
Russia
Distribution. Lantsov, 2002c: 114 (on the faunal structure, biotope(s) and chorology of crane-flies of the Teberdinsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve (North Caucasus: Karachay-Cherkess Rep.)) (in Russian).
Distribution. Pilipenko, 2009a: 216 (annotated checklist Tipulidae Central European Territory, loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, Moskovskaya oblast, distr).
Distribution. Paramonov and Klepikov, 2014: 38 (loc(s) Yaroslavskaya oblast).
Distribution. Paramonov, 2014: 39-43 (revision coll. Eversmann), loc(s) RUE: Tatarstan Rep.) (in Russian.
Distribution. Ruchin and Pilipenko, 2015: 59 (loc(s), checklist RUC: Mordoviya Rep.).
Distribution. Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: 101 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast) (in Russian).
Distribution. Paramonov, 2018a: 185 (loc(s) RUC: Chuvash Rep., distr) (in Russian).
Distribution. Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: 101 (loc(s) RUC: Tverskaya oblast, distr, habitat, citing various authors) (in Russian).
Distribution. Pilipenko et al., 2020: 366 (loc(s) RUC: Mordoviya Rep., distr).
Serbia
First record. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 54 (loc(s)).
Slovakia
Distribution. Stary, 2009k: webpage (checklist).
Slovenia
Distribution. Simova-Tosic and Oosterbroek, 2003: 54 (review literature).
Spain
Distribution. Eiroa and Baez, 2002b: 80 (checklist).
Switzerland
Distribution. Dufour and Merz, 2012: 356 (annotated checklist canton Geneva).
Turkey
Distribution. Koc and Oosterbroek, 2001: 466 (checklist).
on flight period (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Aistleitner, 2015: month(s): 10.
Heiss et al., 2016: month(s): 10.
Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: month(s): 10.
Belgium
Peeters, 2023: month(s): 10-11.
France
Tillier and Dehalleux, 2019: month(s): 10.
Quindroit, 2020a: month(s): 10.
Quindroit, 2020b: month(s): 6.
Quindroit and Lemoine, 2022a: month(s): 10.
Tillier et al., 2023: month(s): 11.
Georgia
Lantsov, 2000b: month(s): 9-10.
Germany
Schacht et al., 2001: month(s): 9-11.
Heiss et al., 2017: month(s): 10-11.
Heiss, 2017a: month(s): 10.
Heiss et al., 2019: month(s): 10-11.
Heiss and Malec, 2023: month(s): 10.
Great Britain
Corbet, 2004: month(s): 9.
Boardman, 2007: month(s): 10-11.
Kramer, 2014c: month(s): 10.
Thirlwell, 2020: month(s): 10.
Ireland
Ashe et al., 2007a: month(s): 9-11.
Ashe et al., 2008: month(s): 10.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2015: month(s): 10.
Devyatkov, 2021c: month(s): 9.
Devyatkov, 2022b: month(s): 9-10.
Liechtenstein
Aistleitner, 2015: month(s): 10.
Netherlands
Oosterbroek and Jong, 2001: month(s): 9-11.
Oosterbroek and Jong, 2017c: month(s): 10.
Norway
Hofsvang et al., 2019: month(s): 9-10.
Romania
Ujvarosi, 2003: month(s): 10-11.
Ujvarosi et al., 2011b: month(s): 10.
Russia
Lantsov, 2002c: month(s): 9-10.
Pilipenko, 2009a: month(s): 9.
Paramonov and Klepikov, 2014: month(s): 9-10.
Paramonov, 2014: month(s): 9.
Ruchin and Pilipenko, 2015: month(s): 9.
Paramonov and Pilipenko, 2016: month(s): 9.
Paramonov, 2018a: month(s): 8, 10.
Paramonov and Korobkov, 2019: month(s): 9.
Pilipenko et al., 2020: month(s): 9.
on altitude (mainly from 2000 onward):
Austria
Aistleitner, 2015: altitude: 460 m.
Vogtenhuber and Kofler, 2017: altitude: 1320 m.
Kazakhstan
Devyatkov, 2022b: altitude: 386-498 m.
Liechtenstein
Aistleitner, 2015: altitude: 440 m.
Romania
Ujvarosi, 2003: altitude: 800 m.

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