Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tipula ID - Tipula laetibasis

Posted by januhamn on 15-01-2016 18:14
#7

Recently Pjotr Oosterbroek (ccw.naturalis.nl)told me that this is Tipula laetibasis.

"It is Tipula (Pterelachisus) laetibasis. A rare species so far known from Czech Rep., Finland, Norway (north), Sweden (north); Russia: NET (north), CET (Moskovskaya oblast); Russia: WS (Altay), ES, FE (incl. Sakhalin, Kuril Is); Japan (Honshu).
Your locality is in South Sweden, so quite an extension."

As far as I know there is only one previous record, described as Tipula caerulea, from Sweden (Lappland) , more than 60 years ago!