Trichocera (Trichocera) hiemalis ( De Geer, 1776 )

Petrašiūnas, Andrius & Podėnas, Sigitas, 2011, Notes on winter flies Trichoceridae (Diptera) of Mongolia with description of new species, Zootaxa 3031, pp. 61-68 : 67

Trichocera (Trichocera) hiemalis ( De Geer, 1776)

Tipula hiemalis De Geer, 1776: 360 .

Trichocera hiemalis ( De Geer, 1776) . Meigen, 1804: 49.

Trichocera (Trichocera) hiemalis ( De Geer, 1776) . Dahl & Alexander, 1976: 15.

Illustrated by De Geer, 1776: pl. 21 fig. 1–5; Lindner, 1930: fig. 2; Coe et al., 1950: fig. 36; Pratt & Pratt, 1984: figs. 14, 21; Krzemińska, 1996: figs: 1, 13–16; and many others.

Material examined. 1 male, Tov Aimag, Cherlen river basin, Dund Burchijn Gol, N48.268333 E108.451667, altitude 1487 m, 2–3 August 2003, margins of fast running river covered with shrubs, grasses and separate cedar trees, coll. S. Podenas; 4 males, 1 female, Hovsgol Aimag, Ulaan Uul Soum, unnamed tributary of Beltes Gol (river), 38 km NW from Sumber, N50.43012 E 99.21664, elevation 2080 m, 28 June 2006, Selenge River Basin Insect Survey Project # 06062803.

It is widely distributed throughout Holarctic species ( Dahl & Alexander, 1976), and was expected to occur in Mongolia.