Limonia badia (Walker, 1848)

Polevoi, Alexei, Ruokolainen, Anna & Shorohova, Ekaterina, 2018, Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 22175-22175 : 22175

Limonia badia (Walker, 1848)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; sex: 31 males, 13 females; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Karelia; locality: Kivach Nature Reserve ; verbatimLatitude: 62.281; verbatimLongitude: 33.967; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk emergence trap; eventDate: 2016-07-21 /08-1; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; sex: 95 males, 86 females; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Karelia; locality: Kivach Nature Reserve ; verbatimLatitude: 62.281; verbatimLongitude: 33.967; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk emergence trap; eventDate: 2016-08-19 /09-28; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Diagnosis

Distinguished from other Limonia by the structure of the male genitalia (Fig. 4) as well as wing pattern and the shape of the tarsal claws ( Starý and Salmela 2004, fig. 1, 2).

Distribution

Holarctic species, recently discovered in Finland ( Starý and Salmela 2004) and Russian Karelia ( Polevoi and Salmela 2014).

Ecology

Saproxylic species, associated with dead aspen wood ( Halme et al. 2012). According to the authors' data, this species prefers wind-broken aspens with a diameter over 50 cm, fallen 6 years ago Table 1. It favoured the trunks colonised by Hyphoderma setigerum (RS=0.81, P<0.01), Peniophora incarnata (RS=0.62, P<0.05), Scutellinia scutellata and Lentaria afflata (RS=0.59, P<0.05).

Conservation

Red-listed in Finland, category NT ( Penttinen et al. 2010).