Metalimnobia (Metalimnobia) quadrinotata (Meigen, 1818)

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) quadrinotata (Meigen, 1818)

Limnobia quadrinotata Meigen, 1818: 144. Type locality: not given (?near Stolberg [Germany])

Limnobia variegata Macquart, 1826: 153. Type locality: northern France

Specimens examined.

1 male, China: Jilin, Antu, Mount Changbai, Lvyuantan (42°03'43"N, 128°04'05"E, 1775 m), 2015.VIII.6, Zehui Kang. 1 male 1 female, China: Hebei, Xinglong, Mount Wuling, main peak (40°35'30"N, 117°29'29"E, 1780 m), 2017.VIII.9, Liang Wang. 2 males, China: Neimenggu, Genhe, Hanma National Nature Reserve, Central Management Station (51°37'29"N, 122°26'34"E, 1200 m), 2014.VIII.1, Li Shi.

Diagnosis.

Pleuron brownish yellow. Femora each brownish yellow with two rings, apical ring black, subapical ring paler and spreading over half of femora. Wing brownish with one or more spots at base. Sc1 ending beyond fork of Rs, Sc2 longer than Sc1; basal section of CuA1 before fork of M. Inner gonostylus divided into three lobes. Paramere with distal part long and curved ventrally, tip flattened and bare.

Distribution

(new records in bold). China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Neimenggu, Xinjiang); Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine ( Oosterbroek 2020).

Remarks.

Metalimnobia (M.) quadrinotata is widespread in the Palearctic region. In China, this species was previously known in three provinces and is now recorded in Hebei, Jilin and Neimenggu for the first time. For descriptions and illustrations of this species, see Savchenko (1985), Podenas et al. (2006), Podenas and Gelhaus (2007), Mao and Yang (2010) and Podenas and Byun (2016).