Elachiptera sibirica (Loew, 1858)

Nartshuk, E. P., 2017, First record of the grass flies (Diptera: Chloropidae) from Khabarovskii krai and Jewish Autonomous region, Far Eastern Entomologist 338 (338), pp. 21-28 : 22

Elachiptera sibirica (Loew, 1858)

MATERIAL. Khabarovsk, dendropark, 31.VII 1978, 1 ex. (Kasparyan); island opposite of Khabarovsk on Amur River, 21.VIII 1979, 4 ex. (Nartshuk); Bolshekhekhzir Natural

Reserve 26.VIII 1979, 9 ex. (Nartshuk).

DISTRIBUTION. Widely distributed in Palaearctic Region; rather rare in European part of Russia and numerous in the Russian Far East.

NOTES. Common on wet lands, larvae phytosaprophagous. A female from island on the

Amur River with entirely yellow mesonotum without usually black stripes.