Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) distendens distendens

Paramonov, N. M. & Pilipenko, V. E., 2021, New synonym and new records of craneflies (Diptera: Tipuloidea) in China, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (2), pp. 182-188 : 187

Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) distendens distendens

Lundstrom, 1912

MATERIAL EXAMINED: China, province Heilongjiang, prefectural city Jiamusi , «Bacha Dao» Nature Reserve, N 48,219125 E 133,886072, 1 male, 4–5.vi.2019 (A.A. Averin) .

DISTRIBUTION. Known from the Russian Far East (Primorsky kray, Kuril Is), South Korea. First record for China.

REMARKS. D. (s.str.) distendens has two subspecies, nominative and a subspecies differing in the color of D. (s.str.) d. pallida Savchenko, 1983. The status of the latter subspecies is still unclear and controversial [ Podenas et al., 2019] and is indicated in this work as a nominative form.

Acknowledgments. We are grateful to Daria Martynova (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences , Saint-Petersburg, Russia) for the translation of the manuscript into English. Fenja Brodo ( Canadian Museum of Nature , Ottawa, Canada) kindly read the manuscript, made contributive comments, and checked and improved the English. Vladimir Lantsov ( Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories Russian Academy of Sciences, Nalchik, Russia) for his helpful notes. The authors thank Mr. Jinlong Ren ( China Agricultural University, Beijing, China) for the photographs of the type specimen and additional information material on A. heilongjiangana . Sincere thanks also to A.A. Averin («Bastak» Nature Reserve, Birobidzhan, Russia) , for the material collected and provided for study. Nikolay Paramonov´s research was supported by the state research project AAAA- A19-119020690082-8 and the Presidium RAS program no.41 “Biodiversity of natural systems and biological sources of Russia ” .

Competing interests. The authors declare no competing interests.