Ptychoptera contaminata
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 contaminata
The species has a southern distribution within the regarded geographical area (Fig. 6B) and is recorded in all countries except Estonia and Russia (Kaliningrad) (Zwick 2020). It seems to be especially abundant in U.K, Netherlands and Denmark. Its northern boundary is located at approx. 65° latitude. The distributional area extends to middle and southern Europe (Italy, Balkan) (Zwick 2020) and, to the east, into the European part of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and Turkey (Paramonov 2013, Oboňa et al. 2017, Zwick 2020). Also, it is found in the Nearctic (Zwick 2020).
In Denmark, the larvae are primarily found in marginal areas of small stagnant waters (permanent ponds, pools, canals and ditches), but they may also occur in small streams (width <3 m). In the U.K., breeding places are coastal ditches, lowland ponds, lakes, canals and very slow-flowing rivers, and they may occur at steep banks (Stubbs 1993).
Adults have an extended flight period from May to August (Fennoscandia) or September (Denmark, Netherlands, U.K.).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ptychopteridae
- Genus
- Ptychoptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- contaminata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ptychoptera contaminata (Linnaeus, 1758) 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)
- Paramonov, N. M. (2013) New records of Ptychopteridae (Diptera) from Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor. Studia dipterologica, 20, 279 - 283.
- 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.