Dicranota (Eudicranota) Alexander 1934
Authors/Creators
- 1. State Scientific Research Institute Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str. 2, LT- 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania & Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University, Sauletekio str. 7, LT- 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2. Biodiversity Research Department, Species Diversity Research Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Republic of Korea
- 3. Biological Specimen Conservation Division, Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources, Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do 37242, Republic of Korea
- 4. Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University, Sauletekio str. 7, LT- 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
Description
Dicranota (Eudicranota) Alexander, 1934
Dicranota (Eudicranota) Alexander in Curran 1934: 46; Alexander 1950: 17; Ishida 1958: 40; Savchenko and Krivolutskaya 1976: 35; Savchenko 1983: 39; Savchenko 1989: 18–20.
Dicranota (Dicranotella) Alexander 1950: 18.
Type species.
Dicranota notabilis Alexander 1929 (original designation) (Nearctic).
Redescription.
Small to medium-sized pale yellow or whitish yellow Dicranota crane flies with body length 5.0– 8.7 mm and wing length 5.0– 7.5 mm.
Head. Antenna 12–13 - segmented, reaching to approx. or slightly beyond frontal margin of presutural scutum, if bent backwards. Antennal verticils long, at least as long as respective segments, usually longer.
Thorax. Presutural scutum could be uniformly coloured, without dark longitudinal stripes, sometimes just with indistinct medial stripe and sometimes with three indistinct stripes. Wing with at least narrow dark areas surrounding cross-veins and base of Rs, radial sector comparatively long, it is 4–5 × as long as vein m-cu. Cell r 2 with supernumerary cross-vein. Discal cell present, cell m 1 rather long, as long or longer as its stem.
Abdomen. Posterior margin of epandrium extended medially, lateral lobe long and narrow, slightly curved. Gonocoxite of male terminalia simple, or with distinct dorso-medial lobe. Interbase usually large, elongate. One or two pairs of gonostyli. Outer gonostylus or tip and outer margin of single gonostylus covered with small black spines. Ovipositor with long cercus and hypogynial valve, tip of cercus just slightly raised upwards, dorsal margin of hypogynial valve covered with long strong setae, tips of which reaching or nearly reaching apex of valve. Spermathecae three, small, drop-shaped.
Remarks.
The subgenus Dicranota (Eudicranota) includes 16 species (one species is added in this publication, one species with two subspecies). Subgenus most diverse in the Eastern Palaearctic with nine species (one with two subspecies), four species recorded from the Nearctic, and three from the Oriental regions (Oosterbroek 2025).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Alexander
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Pediciidae
- Genus
- Dicranota
- Taxon rank
- subGenus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dicranota (Eudicranota) Alexander, 1934 sec. Podenas, Yum, Ahn, Kim, Kim & Podeniene, 2025
References
- Alexander CP (1934) Superfamily Tipuloidea. In: Curran CH The families and genera of North American Diptera: 28 - 60. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6825
- Alexander CP (1950) Entomological results from the Swedish expedition 1934 to Burma and British India. Diptera: Tipulidae - Pediciini. Collected by Rene Malaise. Arkiv for Zoologi 42 A (2): 1–21.
- Ishida H (1958) The catalogue of the Japanese Tipulidae, with the keys to the genera and subgenera (Diptera). IV. Limoniinae, Tribe Pediciini. Science Report of the Hyogo University of Agriculture, Serie Natural Sciences 3 (2): 37–42.
- Savchenko EN, Krivolutskaya GO (1976) Limoniidae of the south Kuril Islands and south Sakhalin. Akademiya Nauk Ukrainskoy SSR, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 160 pp. [in Russian]
- Savchenko EN (1983) Limoniidae of South Primorye. Akademiya Nauk Ukrainskoy SSR, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 156 pp. [in Russian]
- Savchenko EN (1989) Limoniidae fauna of the USSR. Determination tables of superspecies taxa with catalogue survey of species. Akadimiya Nauk Ukrainian SSR, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 377 pp. [in Russian]
- Alexander CP (1929) New or little-known Tipulidae from eastern Asia (Diptera). V. Philippine Journal of Science 40: 519–547. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.25391
- Oosterbroek P (2025) Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (CCW). https://ccw.naturalis.nl/index.php [Last update: 13 November 2024]