Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia

Abstract

BackgroundIn 2016, saproxylic Diptera associated with aspen (Populus tremula L.) logs were studied in the Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia, using trunk emergence traps.New informationEleven rare species of Diptera (families Limoniidae, Scatopsidae, Axymyiidae, Mycetophilidae, Sciaridae, Platypezidae, Syrphidae and Clusiidae) with poorly known distribution and ecology were recorded. For each species, basic diagnostic characteristics were provided along with the information on microhabitats. An attempt was also undertaken to outline possible associations with wood-decaying macrofungi using nonparametric correlation.

Diversity of the Bibionomorpha and Tipulomorpha (Diptera) from dead ash and aspen wood in the forests of Lithuania

“…In our study, there were only 8 traps on aspen that caught 31 species of the Bibionomorpha and Tipulomorpha, including 5 of the same species as in the Finnish study (in Finland, four species were caught on the aspen, while in our study -from ash). In Russian Karelia, 16 aspen logs were investigated with the same type of traps and 51 nematoceran species were collected, of which 9 were present in our study too (Polevoi et al 2018).…”

“…Zygoneura bidens and Z. sciarina were reared on aspen dead wood. Z. bidens was very common in aspen logs in Russian Karelia (Polevoi et al 2018). The larvae of Z. sciarina has been reared from xylophilic and young beech logs (Irmler 1996).…”

“…Species of tree can be very important for diversity of insects as well. Aspen, being of low economic value, is characterized by great diversity of saproxylic insects and is associated with rare species (Polevoi et al 2018). Study of saproxylic Diptera in Scotland (Rotheray et al 2001) showed that aspen and ash had the highest diversity of Diptera (7 tree species were studied).…”

Dipteran (Bibionomorpha and Tipulomorpha) diversity in dead wood in Lithuania

“…Infraorder Bibionomorpha consist of 17 extant families, most being mycetophagous or saprophagous (Ševčík et al 2016). These families are the largest Diptera groups associated with fungal fruiting bodies and, in many cases, they are found in moist dead wood or under the bark of a trunk penetrated by fungal mycelia (Irmler et al 1996, Hövemeyer 1998, Rotheray et al 2001, Alexander 2002, Jakovlev 2011, Mlynarek et al 2018, Ulyshen 2018. The infraorder Tipulomorpha is one of the largest groups in the suborder Nematocera, with five families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae, Tipulidae and Trichoceridae (Wiegmann et al 2011).…”

Cranefly fauna (Diptera: Limoniidae, Pediciidae, Tipulidae) of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia

“…However, many common species are characterized there as "widespread in the European part," without specific regions given. Cranefly has been intensively studied recently in the European part and in other regions of Russia (Barkalov and Saaya 2014;Krivosheina 2009; Krivosheina andKrivosheina 2010, 2019;Lantsov 2009aLantsov , 2009bLantsov , 2009cLantsov , 2011aLantsov , 2011bLantsov , 2011cLantsov , 2012aLantsov , 2012bLantsov , 2012cLantsov , 2014aLantsov , 2014bLantsov , 2014cLantsov , 2015aLantsov , 2015bLantsov , 2016Lantsov , 2017aLantsov , 2017bLantsov , 2017cLantsov , 2018Lantsov , 2019Lantsov and Bibin 2019;Paramonov 2006Paramonov , 2011Paramonov , 2012Paramonov , 2014Paramonov , 2016Paramonov , 2017Paramonov , 2018Pilipenko 2008Pilipenko , 2009Paramonov and Klepikov 2014;Paramonov and Pilipenko 2016;Polevoi and Salmela 2014;Polevoi and Pilipenko 2016;Polevoi et al 2018;Przhiboro 2003Przhiboro , 2009Przhiboro ,...…”