Ptychoptera lacustris Meigen 1830
Creators
- 1. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsoevej 25, DK- 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
- 2. SBHconsult ApS, Selskovvej 8, DK- 3400 HillerØd, Denmark.
- 3. Aquatic Insects Expert Group of Finland, Merikasarminkatu 8 D 53, FI- 0016 Helsinki, Finland.
- 4. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsoevej 25, DK- 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark & phk @ bios. au. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2033 - 553 X
Description
Ptychoptera lacustris
The species has a southern distribution within the regarded geographical area (Fig. 5B), being recorded in all countries except Latvia (Timm et al. 2011; Zwick 2020), although it undoubtedly occurs here too. It is abundant in U.K and Denmark. Its northern boundary is located at approx. 60.5° latitude in Fennoscandia and at 57.5° latitude in the U.K. Its distributional area extends to middle and southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Balkan) and, to the east, into the European part of Russia (West of Ural), Ukraine and Western Turkey (Zwick 2020). Furthermore, it is found in the Nearctic (Zwick 2020).
The species is confined to running water habitats. In Denmark, larvae are primarily found in small brooks with a width <2 m, typically located in woodlands. However, it also occurs in helocrens, frequently in microhabitats with almost no water movement. Preference for woodland streams is reported from the U.K. (Stubbs 1993).
Adults are primarily found from May to July (peaking in June) in the U.K., Denmark and Fennoscandia. There are late records in September in the U.K. (Stubbs 1993).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ptychopteridae
- Genus
- Ptychoptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meigen
- Species
- lacustris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ptychoptera lacustris Meigen, 1830 sec. Wiberg-Larsen, Hansen, Rinne, Viitanen & Krogh, 2021
References
- Zwick, P. (2020) Fauna Europaea: Ptychopteridae. In: Beuk, P. & Pape, T. (Eds.), Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Nematocera. Available from: https: // fauna-eu. org. (accessed 6 December 2020)
- Stubbs, A. E. (1993) Provisional atlas of the ptychopterid crane / lies (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) of Britain and Ireland. Huntingdon Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 34 pp.