Limonia Meigen, 1803

Ren, Jinlong & Yang, Ding, 2020, Two new species of Limonia Meigen, 1803 from Northwest China (Diptera, Limoniidae), ZooKeys 971, pp. 31-58 : 31

Limonia Meigen, 1803

Limonia Meigen 1803: 262; Lackschewitz and Pagast 1940: 4-5; Geiger 1986: 106; Savchenko 1989: 328-330.

Type species.

Tipula tripunctata Fabricius, 1781 (subsequent designation by Westwood 1840) [= phragmitidis (Schrank, 1781)].

Remarks.

Limonia is characterized in the family by the following features: body color from yellow to gray, brown or black; medium-sized (body length 5.3-12.1 mm, wing length 5.4-13.2 mm); first thoracic segment elongate; episternum setose; tarsal claw with three to five teeth; wing wide with well-developed anal angle, pattern ranging from completely transparent or patternless to smoky or with dotted markings; Sc1 apically reaching from base of Rs to branching point of Rs; Sc2 close to apex of Sc1; terminal section of R1 continuing direction of R1 and longer than R2 (often at least two times longer than R2); discal cell closed; basal deflection of CuA1 at or slightly before branching point of M; male genitalia with wide ninth tergite slightly emarginate at posterior margin; gonocoxite with wide but often low ventromesal lobe; gonostylus single, situated apically, wider at base, narrowed and slightly arched at apex; aedeagus simple, elongate with bifid apex that is turned into the ventral margin; paramere wide at base; cercus of female terminalia slightly turned upwards ( Savchenko 1985; Reusch and Oosterbroek 1997; Stary and Salmela 2004; Kolcsár et al. 2017; Podenas and Podeniene 2017; Starý 2018).