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Craneflies and Winter Gnats (Diptera: Nematocera) recorded in Buckinghamshire DRAFT 1. Author: Martin C. Harvey. Date: 15 March 2007 (with minor edits at 15 October 2008). Based on data held on the MapMate database by BMERC (data retrieved 15 March 2007), and including all species covered by the national cranefly recording scheme (craneflies, Tipuloidea, plus fold-winged craneflies, Ptychopteridae, and winter gnats, Trichoceridae). This is a very provisional document – the data has not yet been fully validated, and has not been checked with the national scheme. Records have been contributed by around 30 people, especially Ken Merrifield, Martin Harvey, Tony Marshall and Alan Stubbs. 1. Species list There are approximately 550 records of hoverfly for Buckinghamshire on the database, comprising 90 species: 37 long-palped craneflies, 41 short-palped craneflies, 7 winter gnats and 5 fold-winged craneflies. There are 339 British species altogether. Long-palped craneflies Taxon
Authority
Ctenophora ornata Ctenophora flaveolata Ctenophora pectinicornis Dictenidia bimaculata Prionocera turcica Nephrotoma appendiculata Nephrotoma cornicina Nephrotoma flavescens Nephrotoma flavipalpis Nephrotoma guestfalica Nephrotoma quadrifaria Nephrotoma submaculosa Tipula fulvipennis Tipula luna
Meigen, 1818 (Fabricius, 1794 ) (Linnaeus, 1758 ) (Linnaeus, 1761) (Fabricius, 1787) (Pierre, 1919) (Linnaeus, 1758) (Linnaeus, 1758) (Meigen, 1830) (Westhoff, 1879) (Meigen, 1804) Edwards, 1928 De Geer, 1776 Westhoff, 1879 Poda, 1761 Meigen, 1804 Meigen, 1804 Riedel, 1913 Meigen, 1818
Tipula maxima Tipula vittata Tipula flavolineata Tipula cava Tipula fascipennis
Records Last Recorded 1 2005
Status
Taxon
Authority
RDB1
Tipula livida
1
2005
RDB2
Tipula lunata
7
2005
Scarce
Tipula vernalis
1
1984
2
1981
25
2006
3
1981
Tipula marmorata Tipula obsoleta
14
2006
Tipula pagana
14
1983
Tipula rufina
1
1978
Tipula signata
17
1997
Tipula staegeri
1
1978
Tipula oleracea
5
2005
Tipula paludosa
1
1988
Tipula czizeki
17 2
2006 1982
Tipula subcunctans Tipula hortorum
7
2006
11
1998
8
2006
van der Wulp, 1858 Linnaeus, 1758 Meigen, 1804 Meigen, 1818 van der Wulp, 1883 Meigen, 1818 Meigen, 1818 Meigen, 1818 Meigen, 1818 Staeger, 1840 Nielsen, 1922 Linnaeus, 1758 Meigen, 1830 de Jong, 1925 Alexander, 1921 Linnaeus, 1758 Meigen, 1830 Meigen, 1804
Tipula varipennis Tipula confusa
Tipula scripta Tipula lateralis
Records Last Recorded 1 2001 7
2006
31
2006
8
1991
3
2006
12
1989
3
2005
25
2006
7
1984
3
1978
2
1982
21
2001
50
2006
1
1977
1
1972
1
1982
15
1997
5
1983
The Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre is a service provided by Buckinghamshire County Council and Milton Keynes Council
Status Scarce
RDB3
Craneflies in Buckinghamshire
Short-palped craneflies Taxon Achyrolimonia decemmaculata Austrolimnophila ochracea Cheilotrichia cinerascens Cheilotrichia imbuta Dicranomyia chorea Dicranomyia mitis Dicranomyia modesta Dicranomyia sericata Dicranota bimaculata Epiphragma ocellare Erioptera diuturna Erioptera lutea Euphylidorea dispar Euphylidorea lineola Helius flavus
Authority
Records Last Status Recorded (Loew, 1873) 3 2006
(Meigen, 1804) (Meigen, 1804) (Meigen, 1818) (Meigen, 1818) (Meigen, 1830) (Meigen, 1818) (Meigen, 1830) (Schummel, 1829) (Linnaeus, 1761) (Walker, 1848) Meigen, 1804 (Meigen, 1818) (Meigen, 1804) (Walker, 1856) Ilisia maculata (Meigen, 1804) Ilisia occoecata Edwards, 1936 Limonia flavipes (Fabricius, 1787) Limonia (Schummel, nigropunctata 1829) Limonia Meigen, 1804 nubeculosa
20
2006
8
1998
1
1974
14
2006
4
2006
1
1999
1
1980
2
1997
3
2006
1
1999
1 4
2006 2006
3
1983
2
2006
3
1988
2
1974
6
1997
6
2006
29
2006
Scarce
Limonia phragmitidis Limonia tripunctata Molophilus appendiculatus Molophilus cinereifrons Molophilus griseus Molophilus occultus Neolimnomyia nemoralis Neolimonia dumetorum Ormosia albitibia Ormosia lineata
(Schrank, 1781) (Fabricius, 1782) (Staeger, 1840) de Meijere, 1920 (Meigen, 1804) de Meijere, 1918 (Meigen, 1818) (Meigen, 1804) Edwards, 1921 (Meigen, 1804) Ormosia (Macquart, nodulosa 1826) Phylidorea (Schummel, fulvonervosa 1829) Pilaria discicollis (Meigen, 1818) Rhipidia authors, duplicata misident. Rhipidia Meigen, 1818 maculata Rhypholophus Goetghebuer, bifurcatus 1920 Symplecta (Meigen, stictica 1818) Thaumastoptera Mik, 1866 calceata Tricyphona (Meigen, immaculata 1804) Trimicra pilipes (Fabricius, 1787) Ula sylvatica (Meigen, 1818)
3
2006
12
1995
3
1989
3
1974
1
1999
1
2006
5
1983
5
2006
2
1974
1
1983
2
1997
2
2006
1
1990
5
1982
20
2007
2
1999
3
2006
2
1990
5
1982
3
1974
3
1989
Winter gnats Taxon
Authority
Trichocera annulata Trichocera hiemalis Trichocera major
Meigen, 1818 (De Geer, 1776) Edwards, 1921
Records Last Recorded 20 2006 4
1985
5
1983
Status
Trichocera parva Trichocera regelationis Trichocera rufescens Trichocera saltator
Meigen, 1804 (Linnaeus, 1758) Edwards, 1921 (Harris, [1776])
1
1999
16
2006
1
1983
11
2007
Ptychoptera lacustris Ptychoptera minuta Ptychoptera paludosa
Meigen, 1830 Tonnoir, 1919 Meigen, 1804
1
1988
1
1989
1
1988
Fold-winged craneflies Taxon
Authority
Ptychoptera albimana Ptychoptera contaminata
(Fabricius, 1787) (Linnaeus, 1758)
Records Last Recorded 6 1981 5
1990
Status
BMERC, March 2007
Scarce
Craneflies in Buckinghamshire
2. Top 10 most frequently recorded species
3. Top 9 most widespread species
Species Tipula paludosa Tipula vernalis Limonia nubeculosa Tipula pagana Nephrotoma appendiculata Tipula oleracea Rhipidia maculata Austrolimnophila ochracea Nephrotoma quadrifaria Tipula maxima
Species Tipula paludosa Tipula vernalis Nephrotoma appendiculata Tipula oleracea Tipula maxima Limonia nubeculosa Tipula pagana Austrolimnophila ochracea Dicranomyia chorea
Records 50 31 29 25 25 21 20 20 17 17
Tetrads 25 22 21 16 13 13 10 10 9
5. Recorded tetrads in Buckinghamshire 6
5
4
3
2
1
SP
TL
9
8
7
SU 5
6
7
8
9
TQ
1
For further information about the national cranefly recording scheme please contact: John Kramer, 31 Ash Tree Road, Oadby, Leicester LE2 5TE See also www.dipteristsforum.org.uk Records can be sent in to the above scheme or to BMERC (we will pass them on): Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre email:
[email protected] - web: www.bucksmkerc.org.uk phone: 01296 696012 - post: BMERC, Museum Resource Centre, Tring Road, Halton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5PN
BMERC, March 2007
Craneflies in Buckinghamshire
Identification resources A number of draft keys have been produced by Alan Stubbs for the Cranefly Recording Scheme. Alan is working on a cranefly book that will be published by the British Entomological and Natural History Society in a year or two. Copies of these keys are available from BMERC for anyone who is recording craneflies. Alan would welcome any feedback from people using his keys. Order
Key
Level
Classification
Date
1
Key to families
Family
Undated
2
Keys to Tipulidae and Family Cylindrotomidae
Genus
Tipuloidea families, + Trichoceroidea: Trichoceridae Tipulidae
Species
Cylindrotomidae
Test key for Tipula Keys to long-palped craneflies other than Tipula Test key – hairy-eyed craneflies: Pediciidae Key to Limoniidae
Species Species
Tipulidae – Tipula Tipulidae except Tipula
April 1994 April 1997 Undated
16 4
Species
Pediciidae
Undated
6
Subfamilies
Limoniidae
Species
Limoniidae – Chioneinae (plus all other species with an open discal cell) Limoniidae – Chioneinae
March 2001
14
July 2001
17
April 1994
5
[Freeman, 1951)
1
Species
Limoniidae – Chioneinae – Molophilus Limoniidae – Chioneinae – Tasiocera Limoniidae – Dactylolabinae
Species
Limoniidae – Limnophilinae
9
Species
Limoniidae – Limoniinae
Species
Trichoceridae and Ptychopteridae (not part of Tipuloidea but included in the recording scheme)
February 1997 January 1998 September 2002
3 4 5 [6 – missing] 7
8
9 10 [9 – missing] 10 11 13
Test key to Chioneinae (= Eriopterini) – key 1: open discal cell Test key to Chioneinae (= Eriopterini) – key 2: closed discal cell Test key – Molophilus Key to British species of Tasiocera Skuse Key to Dactylolabinae (two species) Test key to subfamily Limnophilinae Test key to subfamily Limoniinae Test keys to Trichoceridae (wintergnats) and foldwinged craneflies (Ptychopteridae)
Species
Species Species
A4 pages 2
April 19(94?)
3
15 5
Also available: Item
Classification
Date
Test key: larvae and pupae in dead wood
Some Tipulidae and some Limoniidae Various Various
February 1998 -
8 2
Tipulidae
-
9
Wing diagrams for various species ‘Rough guides’ to: orange and yellow craneflies; black or blackish species; Genitalia illustrations for various species
A4 pages 5
Other references: Stubbs, A.E. 1992. Provisional atlas of the long-palped craneflies (Diptera: Tipulinae) of Britain and Ireland. Biological Records Centre, Monks Wood. Stubbs, A.E. 1993. Provisional atlas of the ptychopterid craneflies (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) of Britain and Ireland. Biological Records Centre, Monks Wood. [Includes key to Ptychopteridae, more detailed than item 13 above.]
BMERC, March 2007
