Limoniidae (Diptera) fauna of the Marmara region with 23 new records for Turkey

Abstract

Introduction Tipuloids are dipteran flies with thin, delicate bodies and long legs. Tipuloidea includes the families Limoniidae, Cylindrotomiidae, Pediciidae, and Tipulidae as accepted by many researchers today. They have no ocellus. However, in the dorsal thorax they have a V-shaped mesonotal spur, fragile long legs, and two anal veins that reach up to the edge of the wings (Dienske, 1987; Savchenko, 1989a, 1989b; Reusch and Oosterbroek, 1997; Oosterbroek, 2006). The Limoniidae can be easily distinguished from the other families mentioned above by the venation of the wings, antennae segment number, terminal segment of the maxillary palp, thorax sclerites, and structures of the male and female terminalia. Sc, as opposed to Tipulidae, connects both to C and R together. In Limoniidae, the terminal segment of the maxillary palp is short or the length of the first three segments, while in Tipulidae it is long, even longer than the first three segments combined. While the antenna is 13-segmented in Tipulidae, it is 14or 16-segmented in Limoniidae (except Hexatoma and Lucida). Limoniidae consists of medium-or small-sized flies with body size generally between 2 mm and 11 mm (Oosterbroek, 2006). Limoniidae has 10,547 recognized taxa worldwide. In the Palearctic region, there are 1650 recognized taxa, 735 of which are distributed in the West Palearctic region (Oosterbroek, 2015). About 560 limoniid species and subspecies belonging to 70 genera are known to exist in

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

“…Records of Dactylolabis sexmaculata from the European part of Turkey reported by Koç et al (2016) are misidentifications; they refer to Dactylolabis transversa (Meigen, 1804), based on the published wing and genital photos.…”

“…Records of Dicranoptycha paralivescens from Europan part of Turkey reported by Koç et al (2016) are misidentifications and refer to Dicranoptycha livescens , based on the published wing and genital photos.…”

New faunistic records of the genus Limonia Meigen (Limoniidae, Diptera, Insecta) from the Balkan region

“…comm. ), Limonia messaurea messaurea Mendl, 1971 (Sweden, Finland, and North Korea), Limonia nussbaumi Starý and Freidberg, 2007 (Eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East) (Starý and Barták 2005, Salmela 2012, Koç et al 2016. Larvae are phytophagous, mycetophagous or detritivorous, living in various substrates like mud, sand, rotting wood, and wet leaf litter or are associated with the soft fruiting bodies of various fungi (Kramer 2011, Krivosheina and Krivosheina 2011, Oosterbroek 2017).…”