Chlorops planifrons Loew, 1866

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 : 25

Chlorops planifrons Loew, 1866

MATERIAL. Khabarovsk, 24.VIII 1973, 1 ex. (Elberg) ; Polina Osipenko , 30.VII 1973 , 7

ex. (Elberg); Nikolaevsk, on Carex , 6.VIII 1973, 2 ex. (Elberg); Manoma, 25.VIII 1973, 1

ex. (Elberg).

DISTRIBUTION. Transpalaearctic widely distributed polyzonal species known from

British Islands to the Russian Far East of, in Europe southwards to Spain.

NOTES. On wetlands, larvae phytophagous, develop in shoots of big Carex , e.g. C. inflata .