Trichocera (Trichocera) major Edwards, 1921

Petrašiūnas, Andrius & Podenas, Sigitas, 2017, New data on winter crane flies (Diptera: Trichoceridae) of Korea with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4311 (4), pp. 561-575 : 570

Trichocera (Trichocera) major Edwards, 1921

( Fig. 19 ; Krzemińska 2001b, Figs. 1–17 )

Trichocera major Edwards, 1921: 229 .

Trichocera (Trichocera) major: Dahl & Alexander, 1976: 16 .

Distribution. This species is widely distributed in Europe, being found from Ireland ( Ashe & O’Connor 1989), Great Britain ( Edwards 1921) and Spain ( Dahl et al. 2002) to European part of Russia ( Petrašiūnas & Paramonov 2013) and further east to Japan ( Nakamura (2014) as well as the specimens collected by T. Nakamura and donated to the senior author of this report, stored in MZVU) and Korea (the present study).

Examined material ( Fig. 38 ): 1 male (pinned), North Korea, Seren Mts. , alt. 4–5000 ft . , 0 2.10.1937 coll. A. M. Yankovsky; 1 male, 1 female (same pin), 2 specimens without genitalia (same pin), North Korea, Ompo , alt. 800 ft . , 0 5.11,1937, coll. A. M. Yankovsky; 1 female (pinned), North Korea, Ompo , alt. 600 ft . , 26.09.1937, coll. A. M. Yankovsky, wrongly named as paratype of Dicranoptycha prolongata by C. P. Alexander (all USNM).

Notes. This appears to be a widely distributed species; however, these records are the first for Korea.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 19. 10. T (S.) sapporensis holotype, Japan, Sapporo, Sept. 1922, male terminalia (USNM); 11. T. (S.) maculipennis punctipennis S. Korea, Odaesan NP, 30.10 – 28.11.2013, male terminalia (NIBR). 12. T. (S.) punctipennis India, Naini Tal., 0 1.03. 1934, Brit. Mus. 1934 – 263, male terminalia (BMNH). 13. T. (S.) punctipennis India, Naini Tal., 15.02. 1934, Brit. Mus. 1934 – 143, female terminalia (BMNH). Trichocera (T.) tuberculifera: 14 Allotype, female terminalia, 15 – 17 Holotype # 6549 male, N. Korea, Seren Mts., 0 3.10. 1937 (USNM); 15. tarsus with a claw; 16. antenna; 17. male terminalia. 18. T. (T.) hiemalis, S. Korea, Jeollabuk-do Province, Piagol village, 27.04. 2012, male terminalia (NIBR); 19. T. (T.) major holotype, Great Britain, Shefford Beds, 17.11. 1917, male terminalia (BMNH). Scale bar = 0.2 mm. Abbreviation: p—parameres.

FIGURES 1 – 9. Wings of: 1. Trichocera (Saltrichocera) sapporensis holotype, Japan, Sapporo, Sept. 1922, male (USNM); 2. T. (S.) maculipennis punctipennis S. Korea, Odaesan NP, 30.10 – 28.11.2013, male (NIBR); 3. T. (S.) maculipennis punctipennis S. Korea, Odaesan NP, 30.10 – 28.11.2013, female (NIBR); 4. T. (S.) maculipennis pictipennis Russia, Sidemi, 0 7.10. 1897, female (ZIN); 5. T. (S.) punctipennis India, Simla Hills, 25.04. 1907, male (BMNH) (part of the abdomen is visible through the basis of the wing); 6. T. (S.) punctipennis (Brunetti, 1912); 7. T. (T.) tuberculifera allotype, N. Korea, Seren Mts., 0 3.10. 1937, female (USNM); 8. T. (S.) latipons sp. nov., paratype, S. Korea, Gyeonggi-do, Jeokmok-ri, 25.10. 2015, male (KU); Male terminalia: 9. Paracladura rasnitsyni, North Korea, Ompo, 28.05. 1938, dorsal and lateral view with long hook-like parameres (USNM). Scale bar = 0.2 mm. Abbreviation: p—parameres.

FIGURES 31 – 42. Collecting sites of Trichoceridae in Korean Peninsula. 31. Paracladura rasnitsyni; 32. T. (M.) latilobata; 33. T. (S.) latipons sp. nov.; 34. T. (S.) regelationis; 35. T. (S.) sparsa; 36. T. (S.) maculipennis punctipennis; 37. T. (T.) hiemalis; 38. T. (T.) major; 39. T. (T.) mirabilis; 40. T. (T.) sakaguchii; 41. T. (T.) sibirica; 42. T. (T.) tuberculifera.