Tipula (Vestiplex) aldrichiana Alexander. A 1929
Creators
- 1. The Urban School of San Francisco, 1563 Page St, San Francisco, CA, 94117 USA, and Department of Integrative Biology, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA
- 2. Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
Description
I. Tipula (Vestiplex) aldrichiana Alexander 1929.
Canada: British Colombia, Cassiar, N59.2486, W129.9095 (WGS84). 1 ♀, 8 Aug. 2014, 23:30–02:00 hrs., S.D. Schoville and M.J. Medeiros. Specimen code SDS14–562; Genbank accession code KY114055.
The collection of T. aldrichiana occurred at night, in a rocky habitat near a creek draining snowmelt (air temperature was just above freezing). The specimen (Fig. 1) was found walking slowly on a small snow-patch. Other insects foraging in the same habitat included Grylloblatta campodeiformis nahanni Kamp 1979, omaline rove beetles (Staphylinidae), and Nebria (Boreonebria) spp. (Carabidae). Specimen deposited in the California Academy of Sciences (CASENT 8125472).
Tipula (Vestiplex) aldrichiana has flightless and brachypterous females, although the males are fully winged. This species is previously known from Alaska and several areas of Russia, but has not been previously recorded in Canada. The last collection of this species occurred in 1958, in East Beringia, Russia (Starkevich and Paramonov 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SDS
- Event date
- 2014-08-08
- Family
- Tipulidae
- Genus
- Tipula
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- SDS14-562
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Alexander. A
- Species
- aldrichiana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-08-08
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tipula (Vestiplex) aldrichiana A, 1929 sec. Medeiros & Schoville, 2017
References
- ALEXANDER, C. P. 1929. New Nearctic Crane-flies (Tipulidae, Dipera) Part XIII. The Canadian Entomologist 61: 15 - 22.
- STARKEVICH, P., AND N. M. PARAMONOV. 2016. New Records of Tipula (Vestiplex) Crane Flies from the Palaearctic [Diptera: Tipulidae] with a New Synonym. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 89: 80 - 84.