Metalimnobia (Metalimnobia) bifasciata (Schrank, 1781)

Jiang, Ye & Zhang, Xiao, 2020, New Metalimnobia crane flies (Diptera, Limoniidae) from China with an update of species distributions, ZooKeys 1008, pp. 93-105 : 93

Metalimnobia (Metalimnobia) bifasciata (Schrank, 1781)

Tipula bifasciata Schrank, 1781: 429. Type locality: Austria, Linz

Limonia xanthoptera Meigen, 1804: 56. Type locality: not given

Metalimnobia vittata Matsumura, 1911: 63. Type locality: Russia, Sakhalin, Naiptchi

Limnobia avis avis Alexander, 1918: 444. Type locality: Japan, Honshu, Shinano, Takuhara

Limnobia avis flavoabdominalis Alexander, 1918: 445. Type locality: Japan, Honshu

Specimens examined.

1 male, China: Sichuan, Yanyuan, Lugu Lake (27°43'00"N, 100°54'18"E, 2673 m), 2019.VII.19, Liang Wang (light trap).

Diagnosis.

Pleuron yellow. Femora yellow with apical brown rings. Wing yellowish without spot at base. Sc1 ending close to fork of Rs, Sc2 longer than Sc1; basal section of CuA1 close to or beyond fork of M. Outer gonostylus broad, arched at 2/3 length, outer angle extended and darkened. Inner gonostylus undivided. Paramere with distal part long and nearly straight, tip blunt with several hairs on inside.

Distribution

(new record in bold). China (Beijing, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan); Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan,?Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine ( Oosterbroek 2020).

Remarks.

Metalimnobia (M.) bifasciata is widely spread in the Palearctic and Oriental regions. In China, this species is known in many provinces and is now recorded in Sichuan for the first time. For descriptions and illustrations of this species, see Alexander (1918), Boardman (2007), Mao and Yang (2010), Matsumura (1911), Nakamura (2006), Podenas et al. (2006), Podenas and Gelhaus (2007) and Podenas and Byun (2016).