Rhypholophus bifurcatus Goetghebuer, 1920

Kolcsar, Levente-Peter, Oosterbroek, Pjotr, Gavryushin, Dmitry I., Olsen, Kjell Magne, Paramonov, Nikolai M., Pilipenko, Valentin E., Stary, Jaroslav, Polevoi, Alexei, Lantsov, Vladimir I., Eiroa, Eulalia, Andersson, Michael, Salmela, Jukka, Quindroit, Clovis, d'Oliveira, Micha C., Hancock, E. Geoffrey, Mederos, Jorge, Boardman, Pete, Viitanen, Esko & Watanabe, Kozo, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of Limoniidae (Diptera: Tipuloidea): first records of 244 species from various European countries, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 67085-67085 : 67085

Rhypholophus bifurcatus Goetghebuer, 1920

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: 1 male, 3 females; recordedBy: D.I. Gavryushin; individualCount: 1; sex: female; preparations: Pinned; occurrenceID: EU_LIM_830; Taxon : scientificName: Rhypholophus bifurcatus Goetghebuer , 1920; family: Limoniidae ; genus: Rhypholophus ; specificEpithet: bifurcatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Goetghebuer , 1920; Location : country: Serbia; stateProvince: Zaječar; municipality: Knjaževac; locality: Crni Vrh ; verbatimElevation: 800 m; minimumElevationInMeters: 800; decimalLatitude: 43.407; decimalLongitude: 22.587; Identification: identifiedBy: D.I. Gavryushin; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 2014-09-16 / 2014-09-18; verbatimEventDate: 16-22/Sep/2014; Record Level: institutionCode: ZMMU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

First record from Serbia.

Records of Rhypholophus varius (Meigen and Wiedemann, 1818) from Hungary reported by Ujvárosi (2004) are misidentified - material deposited in HNHM belongs to Rhypholophus bifurcatus. We, therefore, delete the species from the Hungarian checklist.