Epiphragma (Epiphragma) Osten Sacken, 1860

Podenas, Sigitas, Podeniene, Virginija, Park, Sun-Jae, Seo, Hong-Yul, Kim, Tae-Woo, Kim, A-Young & Aukštikalnienė, Hye-Woo Byun and Rasa, 2019, Epiphragma crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea, Journal of Species Research 8 (4), pp. 407-420 : 410-411

Epiphragma (Epiphragma) Osten Sacken, 1860

Limnophila (Epiphragma) Osten Sacken, 1860: 238 .

Epiphragma Edwards, 1938: 63 , 66-67; Alexander, 1948: 168-170; Ishida, 1959: 2, 4; Savchenko, Krivolutskaya, 1976: 53; Savchenko, 1983: 47; 1986: 222-226; 1989: 73-74.

Type species Limnophila pavonina Osten Sacken, 1860 (designation: Coquillett, 1910) (= fasciapenne ( Say, 1823)).

Main set of characters as in genus. Antenna with scape and pedicel dark, brown or blackish, flagellum orange or yellow at base, verticils long. Wing with ocellate pattern, additional cross-vein in cell c. Differs from other subgenera by having single cross-vein in cell c and no cross-veins in cells m or cu, legs covered with simple setae, not scales.

A total of 115 recent species belong to the subgenus Epiphragma (Epiphragma) . Distribution as in the whole genus with lower numbers in Oriental Region and Austra- lia.

Larva and pupa as described for the genus. They are known only for five species E. (E.) fasciapenne ( Say, 1823), E. (E.) imitans Alexander, 1913, E. (E.) ocellare ( Linnaeus, 1760) , E. (E.) solatrix ( Osten Sacken, 1860) and E. (E.) subfascipenne ( Alexander, 1920; Bruch, 1939; Brindle, 1967; Krivosheina, 2009).