New Limoniinae crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea

New Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1859 Crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of North and South Korea

“…From that material, he described two species of Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1859 (D. diacantha and D. prolongata). Later D. prolongata was also discovered in the northern part of South Korea (Podenas & Byun 2014). Despite intense collecting efforts in many different parts of South Korea between 2012-2014 by the authors of this paper, no specimens of Dicranoptycha species were found further south than the original type location.…”

Fruit‐ and seed‐feeding habit of the crane fly Libnotes puella (Diptera: Limoniidae) in Ryukyu Islands, Japan

“…The morphology of these adult specimens corresponded with the descriptions by Alexander (1925), Podenas et al . () and Kato et al . ().…”

“…Although Libnotes biology has been poorly studied (Podenas et al . ; Kato et al . ), Krivosheina () has reported that all six species investigated are xylophilous at the larval stage.…”

“…puella has been recorded only on Kyushu Island and on several islands in Ryukyu, Japan and Korea (Alexander ; Podenas et al . ; Kato et al . ).…”

The genus Phantolabis (Diptera: Limoniidae) new to the Palearctic: description of a new species and re-definition of the genus

“…In the Palearctic, the family is represented by 78 genera and more than 1700 species, including 1130 in the eastern Palearctic (Oosterbroek 2020). Recently, the fauna of the eastern Palaearctic Limoniidae has been intensively studied in Korea (Podenas 2013(Podenas , 2015(Podenas , 2016a(Podenas , 2016b(Podenas , 2016cPodenas & Byun 2013, 2014a, 2014bPodenas et al 2015aPodenas et al , 2015bPodenas et al , 2017Podenas et al , 2019aPodenas et al , 2019b, China (Mao & Yang 2009Men 2015aMen , 2015bMen & Yu 2015;Zhang et al 2012Zhang et al , 2014Zhang et al , 2015aZhang et al , 2015bZhang et al , 2016Zhang et al , 2019, Mongolia (Podeniene & Gelhaus 2010, 2015Podenas & Gelhaus 2011;Yadamsuren et al 2015 ) and Japan (Kato et al 2018).…”