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Dolichopus vitripennis Meigen 1824
Description
56. Dolichopus vitripennis Meigen, 1824 (Dolichopodinae)
Number of specimens recorded. 1.
Distribution. Europe. Portugal: one province (Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) (see also Meuffels 1976; Dyte unpubl. data).
Ecology. The only site in Portugal with this species can be described as a riparian corridor bordered by Salix sp. that crosses mountain meadows; the mountains are covered by shrubland (with several heathers and brooms,
Cytisus sp. or Genista sp.) and patches of Quercus pyrenaica forest. In northwestern Europe as well, it is restricted to oligotrophic fenland and humid heathland (Pollet 2000).
Rarity (%). 1.1 (very rare). Fairly common (FL).
Activity period. June.
Notes
Published as part of Pollet, Marc, Andrade, Rui, Gonçalves, Ana, Andrade, Pedro, Jacinto, Valter, Almeida, Jorge, Braekeleer, Anja De, Calster, Hans Van & Brosens, Dimitri, 2019, Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4649 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3357623
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Dolichopus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meigen
- Species
- vitripennis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dolichopus vitripennis Meigen, 1824 sec. Pollet, Andrade, Gonçalves, Andrade, Jacinto, Almeida, Braekeleer, Calster & Brosens, 2019
References
- Meuffels, H. J. G. (1976) Dipteres Dolichopodides palearctiques nouveaux ou interessants. Bulletin des Recherches Agronomiques de Gembloux, 11 (1 - 2), 201 - 206.
- Pollet, M. (2000) A documented Red List of the dolichopodid flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) of Flanders [in Dutch with English summary]. Communications of the Institute of Nature Conservation, 8, 1 - 190.