Dasyhelea (Dicryptoscena) modesta (Winnertz, 1852)

Ceratopogon modestus Winnertz, 1852: 43 .

Ceratopogon aestivus Winnertz, 1852: 42 .

Dasyhelea longipalpis Kieffer, 1913b: 37 .

Dasyhelea inclusa Kieffer, 1918: 188 .

Dasyhelea strobli Kieffer, 1919: 63 .

Dasyhelea pratensis Goetghebuer, 1920: 44 .

Dasyhelea bihamata Kieffer, 1923: 667 .

Dasyhelea moascari Macfie, 1943: 153 .

Dasyhelea densipilosa Tokunaga, 1963: 41 .

Distribution

Norway, Sweden, Russia (Karelia, Leningrad Oblast, North Ossetia), Estonia, Lithuania, Great Britain, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine (Crimea), Bulgaria, Andorra, Spain, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Japan, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen (Dominiak & Szadziewski 2010).

Biology

Preimaginal stages inhabit a wide range of aquatic and semiaquatic habitats and can be found in ponds, mud, swamps, peat bogs, the littoral zone of lakes and saline habitats (Thienemann 1915, 1950; Mayer 1934; Szadziewski 1986; Przhiboro 1999; Chandler et al. 2008).