Notes on winter flies Trichoceridae (Diptera) of Mongolia with description of new species
Author
Petrašiūnas, Andrius
Author
Podėnas, Sigitas
text
Zootaxa
2011
3031
61
68
journal article
46329
10.5281/zenodo.278712
8dd0f58c-d27a-4730-be6f-c7d9a0f77b44
1175-5326
278712
Trichocera (Metatrichocera) gigantea
(Dahl, 1967)
Metatrichocera gigantea
Dahl, 1967
.
Dahl, 1967b
: 195
.
Trichocera
(
Metatrichocera
)
gigantea
(Dahl, 1967)
.
Dahl & Alexander, 1976
: 14
. Illustrated by
Dahl, 1967b
: figs. 15–19, 28–31.
Material examined.
MONGOLIA
:
1 male
, Hovsgol Aimag, Khankh Soum, Noyon river bank,
N51.201528
E100.807278
, altitude
1709 m
,
8–15 August
, 2005, Malaise trap, coll. O. Yadamsuren and S. Enkhtaivan, habitat: narrow valley with boggy forb-sedge meadow (
Carex
sp.,
Leymus chinensis
,
Potentillia
sp.), vegetation coverage 70 percent, malaise trap at river edge.
The species was known from
Sweden
(Dahl, 1967),
Finland
(
Dahl, 1968
) and Arctic tundra of
Russia
(
Lantsov & Chernov, 1987
). Occurrence of species in permafrost zone of Northern
Mongolia
was expected, despite disjunction with the rest of the distribution area.