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Interrest in Tipulomorpha (Diptera) and Myriapoda (Chilopoda and Diplopoda) from France
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Résumé ̶ Cette étude présente la redécouverte en France du chilopode Geophilus proximus C.L. Koch, 1847, une espèce
considérée comme rare et non formellement signalée depuis le début du XXe
siècle. Le spécimen a été trouvé dans une prairie
permanente traversée par un ruisseau à Bourdonnay, en Moselle (57), faisant de ce département celui avec la pl...
Phyllolabis gohli Mendl, 1976, and P. pubipennis Lackschewitz, 1940, in the French Alps: two species and one genus of Limoniidae newly recorded for the fauna of France (Diptera, Nematocera). Phyllolabis gohli Mendl, 1976, and P. pubipennis Lackschewitz, 1940, are reported from France for the first time. These are the first records for this genus of...
Chionea bezzii Oosterbroek & Reusch, 2008, described from Spanish Pyrenees and until now only known by the holotype male, is mentioned by the capture of a single male specimen in French Pyrenees. A brief additional description is given.
Discovery of Clinopodes vesubiensis Bonato, Iorio & Minelli, 2011 in the Gorges of the Verdon (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha Geophilidae).
The discovery of Clinopodes vesubiensis Bonato, Iorio & Minelli, 2011, in the Gorges of the Verdon (Verdon Canyon) at Aiguines (Var) extends, as the crow flies, by eighty kilometers to the west-southwest the distribu...
Knowledge of the fauna of Bibionidae of Corsica is summarized, with 13 species reported from the island. Four species are recorded for the first time from Corsica, Bibio pomonae (Fabricius, 1775), Dilophus femoratus Meigen, 1804, D. sardous Haenni, 2009, and a possibly undescribed species, B. aff. johannis (Linnaeus, 1767). A key for the identifica...
An updated checklist of the families Limoniidae (short-palped craneflies) and Pediciidae (hairy-eyed craneflies) from Corsica is presented here, based mostly upon collected material from the Our Planet Reviewed in Corsica 2019-2021 expeditions led by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in collaboration with, and funded by, the Collectivité de...
Gnophomyia elsneri Starý, 1983 is first mentioned in France, from the Gers.
The cranefly (Tipuloidea) fauna of the Western Balkans is still poorly known. In this study, occurrence
data of 77 species is reported, of which two species are newly recorded for Albania, eight species for
Bosnia and Herzegovina, twelve for Croatia, and seven for Slovenia, respectively. A new species, Baeoura
neretvaensis Kolcsár & d’Oliveira, sp....
La faune des Chilopodes de France métropolitaine comporte actuellement 154 taxons terminaux : 151 espèces et trois sous-espèces, dont la liste commentée est fournie dans le présent article. Stenotaenia sorrentina (Attems, 1903) est confirmée en France (Corse). Les spécimens autrefois cités comme Lithobius nodulipes Latzel, 1880 en Corse se rapporte...
Abstract. – We report several captures of the elusive species Sylvicola zetterstedti (Edwards, 1923) (Diptera: Anisopodidae), with some description on the habitat.
Keywords. – Sylvicola zetterstedti, Nematocera, Anisopodidae, New records, Distribution.
Discovery in France of a species of Limoniidae believed to be endemic to Great Britain: Paradelphomyia dalei (Edwards, 1939) (Diptera). Paradelphomyia dalei (Edwards, 1939) is recorded for the first time from France. The first data outside Great Britain is presented here. Photographs of identification criteria of French specimens are given.
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Following the last publication of the French national inventory of Ptychopteridae (Diptera), carried out by Opie-benthos, new repartition data are provided with among them, data of rare or poorly known species.
Distribution maps in France are updated and short comments on biology are given.
During work for the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) in Mercantour Park, in French Alps, 23 Limoniidae species were collected. Among them, three are new to French fauna: Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) imbecilla Lackschewitz, 1941, Dicranomyia (Glochina) transsilvanica Lackschewitz, 1928, and Molophilus (Molophilus) priapus Lackschewitz, 1935. Alti...
Summary. – During an entomological inventory in the canopy of Oak stands, 15 species of Limoniidae (Diptera) have been collected in three different forests located in the centre of France (Loiret, Cher and Allier). All species are new to the department, and the species Helius calviensis Edwards, 1928, previously known from Corsica only in France, i...
Limoniidae is one of the most species-rich Dipteran families, with 661 reported species in Europe. Despite the fact that the European limoniid crane fly fauna has been studied ever since Carolus Linnaeus, it is still poorly known.
In this study, we summarise the taxonomic and faunistic studies of European Limoniidae, which described new species and...
Liste des Sciomyizidae (Diptera) du Maine-et-Loire et commentaire sur les espèces Pays-de-la-Loire (France)
Résumé. – Les auteurs citent une nouvelle espèce de Limoniidae pour la faune de France : Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) fuscinota Starý, 2009.
Summary. – A new record from France of the Limoniidae Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) fuscinota Starý, 2009 is given in this work.
Dicranomyia (Melanolimonia) hamata Becker, 1908, is mentioned in mainland France for the first time, in the Var department.
First records for France of a scarce cranefly in Europe: Tipula (Pterelachisus) cinereocincta cinereocincta Lundstrom, 1907 (Diptera, Tipulidae). Tipula (Pterelachisus) cinereocincta cinereocincta Lundstrom, 1907, a scarce species of cranefly in central and northern Europe, is mentioned for the first time from two stations in eastern France. One ex...
Erratum dans le texte:
la phrase "anciennement classée au sein des Myriapodes" (p1) est inexacte: les Chilopodes sont bien classé au sein des Myriapoda.
The Ptychopteridae is a family of Diptera Nematocera, with an aquatic larval and pupal development. As a part of the future Inventory of the Ptychopteridae of France (= INVDp), led by Opie-benthos, a synthesis of knowledge on the distribution of the seven Ptychoptera species occuring in France is provided.
Examination of centipedes collected in Corsica allowed us to identify a female and a male of Henia (Chaetechelyne) duboscqui (Verhoeff, 1943) from two new localities of this island (Vizzavona, Haute-Corse department; Bocognano, Corse-du-Sud department). Following its original description this endemic species had not been found subsequently up until...
