Tipula (Lunatipula) alpina Loew, 1873

Syratt, Maksymilian, 2022, Tipula Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Tipulidae) species new to Poland with notes on the distribution of a further four species, Dipteron (Oxford, England) 38 (4), pp. 1-12 : 1-12

Tipula (Lunatipula) alpina Loew, 1873

MATERIAL EXAMINED (1 ♂). Olkusz Upland (Wyżyna Olkuska). Ojców National Park buffer zone: Biały Kościół – Kresy , forest-meadow ecotone, UTM DA16, 27 VI 2021, 1 ♂, leg. det. M. Syratt.

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Found throughout Europe from Great Britain and France to Belarus, Romania, and southern Scandinavia. First record for Poland.

Dufour (1986) lists T. (L.) alpina as a thermophilic species favouring deciduous forests, and contrary to its name, not associated with alpine habitats. In Great Britain the species is considered a limestone woodland specialist ( Stubbs 2018). Limestone streams ( Dufour 2003), gardens ( Tillier et Dehalleux 2019), and meadows bordering beech forests ( Heiss 2017) are among other habitats where adults have been observed, with the last of these examples being comparable to the site near Ojców National Park. Larvae have been found to live in moist woodland soil, under bark, and in decaying fallen trees and tree stumps such as Fagus ( Chiswell 1956, Gibbs 2008). Flight period is from April to August.