Boreus hyemalis ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

Dvořák, Libor, Mariychuk, Ruslan, Manko, Peter, Oboňa, Jozef, Krzemiński, Wiesław & Godunko, Roman J., 2022, Present knowledge on Mecoptera of Ukraine, Zootaxa 5141 (5), pp. 459-483 : 463

2. Boreus hyemalis ( Linnaeus, 1767)

Boreus Hiemalis L [sic!]: Nowicki 1864: 61; 1865: 61 [faunistics]

Boreus hiemalis L .: Dziędzielewicz 1867: 162; 1891: 47 [faunistics]; Fudakowski 1923: 202 [distribution]

Boreus hiemalis Lin. [sic!]: Majewski 1882: 16; 1885: 1; Dziędzielewicz 1914: 43 [faunistics]; Łomnicki 1914: 110 [faunistics]; Dziędzielewicz 1918: 40 [distribution, ecology]

Boreus hyemalis (Linné) : Svensson 1972: 27; Penny 1977: 204 [taxonomy, distribution]

Boreus hyemalis (Linnaeus) [sic!]: Penny 1977: 204 [taxonomy, distribution]

Published records: Lviv [Klepariv], under Poland ( Nowicki 1864, 1865; Dziędzielewicz 1867, 1891, 1914, 1918; Majewski 1882, 1885; Penny 1977; Łomnicki 1914; Fudakowski 1923; Svensson 1972).

Reviewed material: SMNH collection, 1 ♂, E21.03.01.02/01: “Kleparów Koło Lwowa 19. XII ”; “1”; “ Boreus hiemalis Linnaeus ”, [19.12.?, Lviv]; 1 ♂, E21.03.01.02/02: “ Kleparów Koło Lwowa 19 . XII ”; “2”; “ Boreus hiemalis Linnaeus ”, [19.12.?, Lviv]; 1 ♂, E21.03.01.02/03: “ Kleparów Koło Lwowa. 21.11.1897 .”; “3”; “ Boreus hiemalis Linnaeus ”, [12.11.1897, Lviv]; 1 ♀, E21.03.01.02/04: “ Czarnohora Foreszczynka 2.-20. XII.1911.”; “4”; “ Boreus hiemalis Linnaeus ”, [2.- 20.12.1911,?] .

Remarks: Majewski (1885) reported this species as “pospol. w całym kraju” [common throughout the country], meaning former territories of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which were separated in that time between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires (including Halychyna within the current territory of Ukraine). Penny (1977) mentioned this species from the former territory of Poland, presumably based on previously published historical data. This idea is also confirmed by a published map on figure 81, where one of the distributional points is situated in the western part of Ukraine, close to the Carpathians.

All data mentioned by Fudakowski (1923) are based on J. Dziędzielewicz’s and E. Majewski’s reports (the same for B. westwoodi ).

Mentioned by Dziędzielewicz (1918), specimens of P. hyemalis are preserved in the SMNH collection, except the specimen from Lviv marked in the paper as “19.I” (missing). An additional specimen of a female was collected on the Chornohora Mountains.