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Limnophila crane flies(Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea

  • Podenas, Sigitas (Nature Research Centre) ;
  • Park, Sun-Jae (Animal Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Byun, Hye-Woo (Animal Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources)
  • Received : 2021.10.29
  • Accepted : 2022.03.12
  • Published : 2022.05.31
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Abstract

This study is based on crane fly specimens collected during an 80-year period (1937-2017) in the Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and are in collections maintained at the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; the Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; and the National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea. These crane flies are developing in wet places which usually prevail at lower altitudes, but such areas are often used for agriculture and human settlements, making natural habitats scarce and fragmented. Probably because of that, Limnophila crane flies are rare on the Korean Peninsula and were unnoticed by previous researchers. The genus Limnophila Macquart, 1834 with three species being new record for the Korean Peninsula: L. (Limnophila) japonica Alexander, 1913, L. (L.) pictipennis (Meigen, 1818) and L. (L.) politostriata Alexander, 1934a. General information are presented for each species, such as on genus and subgenus, redescriptions of species based on Korean specimens, illustrations of both sexes, elevation range, period of activity, habitat information, general distribution, and a distribution map for the Korean Peninsula.

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Acknowledgement

Our warmest thanks to all Korean friends and colleagues who helped us during our visits to South Korea and all those who helped to collect crane flies. We are very grateful for J. C. Thomas for the help with Korean specimens from the University of Kansas, U. S. A.; Dr. F. Shockley and Dr. T. Dikow (USNM), Dr J. K. Gelhaus (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, U. S. A.) for the possibility to use specimens from the USNM collections. Special thanks are extended to Dr M. Dagys for his help to prepare distribution maps. This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), funded by the Ministry of Environment(MOE) of the Republic of Korea (NIBR202102111).

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