Platypalpus ciliaris (Fallén), Fallen

Kustov, Semen, Shamshev, Igor & Grootaert, Patrick, 2015, New data on the genus Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Caucasus with description of seven new species, Zootaxa 3973 (3), pp. 451-473 : 454-455

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6097995
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scientific name	Platypalpus ciliaris (Fallén)
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Platypalpus ciliaris (Fallén) View in CoL

Tachydromia ciliaris Fallén, 1816: 33 View in CoL .

Material examined. GEORGIA: 1 ♂, Mingrelia, ridge Ofizari, river Shakvi, 1400 m a.s.l., 5.v.2014, D. Zherebilo (KSU). RUSSIA: Karachay–Cherkess Republic: Teberdinskiy Nature Reserve, Kurort, 6.vi.1964, Gorodkov (1 ♂, ZIN); same data, 28.viii.1965, Gorodkov (1 ♂, ZIN); same locality, env. homestead, 27.viii.1965, Gorodkov (9 ♂, 1 ♀, ZIN); same data, 7.ix.1965, Gorodkov (1 ♂, ZIN); Karachaevsk, 900 m a.s.l., 31.x.1967, Gorodkov (1 ♀, ZIN); Krasnodarskiy Territory: Apsheronskiy district, ridge Azish-Tau, Nature Reserve “Kamyshanova Polyana”, 18.vi.2011, Shamshev (1 ♀, ZIN); same data, 1.vi.2014, S. Kustov (KSU); 3♂, same data, 13.vi.2014, S. Kustov (2 ♂, 2 ♀, KSU).

Distribution. Austria, Belgium, Britain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia (north-western and central European parts, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodarskiy Territory), Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine.

Remarks. The species is recorded from the Caucasus ( Georgia; Karachay-Cherkessia and Krasnodarskiy Territory of Russia) for the first time. This is a common species, known from mountain forest (900–1400 m a.s.l.) and is active from May to September.