Ptychoptera minuta, Tonnoir, 1919

Wiberg-Larsen, Peter, Hansen, Søren Birkholm, Rinne, Aki, Viitanen, Esko & Krogh, Paul Henning, 2021, Key to Ptychopteridae (Diptera) larvae of Northern Europe, with notes on distribution and biology, Zootaxa 5039 (2), pp. 179-200 : 194

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B4113086-CEAF-43F1-8CE5-04F114ED789F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5509039

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9B4B4C33-354E-4305-FF6D-94F8D40DF98A

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Plazi

scientific name

Ptychoptera minuta
status

 

Ptychoptera minuta View in CoL

The species has an overall northern distribution and is present in almost all countries within the regarded geographical area ( Figure 6C View FIGURE 6 ). It has not been recorded in Estonia, Latvia and the Kaliningrad region of Russia ( Zwick 2020), but it most probably occurs there too. Its range reaches far north and it seems to be abundant everywhere ( Figure 5F View FIGURE 5 ). Its distributional area extends south to the northern part of middle Europe ( Czech Republic) and into the eastern Palaearctic ( Zwick 2020).

The breeding habitats of the species in Denmark are mainly very small, shallow, permanent and stagnant water bodies, located in woodland or grassland. The habitats are often located adjacent to lakes. There are also a few records from small streams, but these possibly represents misidentified P. scutellaris .

Flight period range from May to September within most of the distributional area of the species, peaking in June/July. In northernmost Scandinavia, the flight period is shorter and peaks in July.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ptychopteridae

Genus

Ptychoptera

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