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Thrypticus cuneatus Medeterinae
Description
146. Thrypticus cuneatus (Becker, 1917) (Medeterinae) — new to Portugal
Number of specimens recorded. 2.
Distribution. Mainly recorded from northern Europe, but also from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. Portugal: one province in the centre (Estremadura), and one in the south (Baixo Alentejo).
Ecology. The only two Portuguese specimens were recorded from Mediterranean shrubland crossed by a river, and from a marshland with Phragmites australis, Typha latifolia and several Cyperaceae. In Britain, Thrypticus cuneatus is considered a wetland species most likely associated with spike-rush Eleocharis spp. (Drake 1999, 2018).
Rarity (%). 2.3 (rare).
Activity period. May, November.
Notes
Published as part of Pollet, Marc, Andrade, Rui, Gonçalves, Ana, Andrade, Pedro, Jacinto, Valter, Almeida, Jorge, Braekeleer, Anja De, Calster, Hans Van & Brosens, Dimitri, 2019, Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4649 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3357623
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Thrypticus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Medeterinae
- Species
- cuneatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thrypticus cuneatus (Becker, 1917) sec. Pollet, Andrade, Gonçalves, Andrade, Jacinto, Almeida, Braekeleer, Calster & Brosens, 2019
References
- Drake, C. M. (1999) Two rare flies in Cambridgeshire, Ochthera manicata (Fabricius) and Thrypticus cuneatus (Becker) (Diptera, Ephydridae and Dolichopodidae). Dipterists Digest, 6, 29 - 30.
- Drake, C. M. (2018) A review of the status of the Dolichopodidae flies of Great Britain. Species Status No. 30. Natural England Commissioned Reports, Number 195.