Contribution to the knowledge of Limoniidae (Diptera: Tipuloidea): first records of 244 species from various European countries

Abstract

Limoniidae is one of the most species-rich Dipteran families, with 661 reported species in Europe. Despite the fact that the European limoniid crane fly fauna has been studied ever since Carolus Linnaeus, it is still poorly known. In this study, we summarise the taxonomic and faunistic studies of European Limoniidae, which described new species and reported first country records, between 2010 and 2020. We also report occurrence data of 244 Limoniidae species which represent the first country records or conformational records from various European countries, as we report ten species from Albania, one from Austria, thirty-seven from Belarus, five from Belgium, two from Bulgaria, two from Estonia, six from Finland, seven from France, fourteen from Greece, sixteen from Hungary, two from Iceland, six from Italy, ten from Latvia, one from Malta, nine from Montenegro, two from The Netherlands, ten from North Macedonia, forty-two from Norway, one from Poland, five from Portugal, twenty from Romania, thirty-eight from Serbia, six from Slovenia, five from Spain and seven species from Sweden for the first time. From the European territory of Russia, we report twenty-eight species from Central European Russia, seventy-two from East European Russia, fifteen from North European Russia, one from Northwest European Russia and seven from North Caucasus for the first time. Confirmatory records and corrigenda are also included.

New records for the Western Balkans cranefly fauna (Diptera, Tipuloidea) with the description of a new Baeoura Alexander (Diptera, Limoniidae)

“…A widely distributed species, known from the Palearctic and Oriental regions. It is relatively rare in Europe, and recently reported from Slovenia ( Kolcsár et al 2021 ).…”

“…Another relatively common European species, which is recently reported from several countries from the Balkan ( Kolcsár et al 2015b , 2021 ). Here we report it for the first time from Bosnia and Herzegovina.…”

“…Adults of B. malickyi, B. schachti Mendl, 1986, andB. armata Mendl, 1985 were collected around small streams with clear water (Mendl and Tjeder 1976;Mendl 1985Mendl , 1986Kolcsár et al 2021). Baeoura rotherayi and B. szadziewskii Krzemiński & Starý, 1984 were also collected along streams (Krzemiński and Starý 1984;Hancock 2020).…”

“…In the last decade, our knowledge of the distribution of European craneflies has increased, but nonetheless craneflies are still considered a poorly known insect group. Apart from a few better-studied countries, like the Czech Republic, Finland, or the United Kingdom, the fauna of many countries is still poorly investigated and it is relatively easy to find new or unreported cranefly species (Kolcsár et al 2021(Kolcsár et al , 2023.…”

Promoting the Knowledge of the Entomofauna of the Onezhskoye Pomorye National Park

“…Что касается непосредственно территории национального парка «Онежское Поморье», то здесь до последнего времени, по результатам работ А. Б. Крашенинникова, было зарегистрировано лишь 17 видов комаров из семейств Chironomidae и Culicidae [Степень…, 2017]; а также 3 вида шмелей по сборам начала ХХ века указывалось из Пушлахты . Уже по результатам сборов нашей экспедиции опубликованы находки 19 видов мух-зеле-нушек (Dolichopodidae) [Polevoi, Grichanov, 2021] и одного вида комаров-долгоножек (Limoniidae) [Kolcsár et al, 2021]. То есть, учитывая огромное видовое разнообразие насекомых, можно сказать, что перед нами стояла задача изучения энтомофауны данной территории практически с нулевой отметки.…”