Tipula (Vestiplex) balioptera Loew

• Main Authors: Starkevich, Pavel, Podenas, Sigitas, Gelhaus, Jon K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Bibionidae; Tipula; Tipula balioptera; Anchorage; Canada; Byers; Macleod; Yakutiya; Bradore-Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4454915; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4454915

Tipula (Vestiplex) balioptera Loew (Figs 8, 22, 39–49; Map 2) Tipula balioptera Loew, 1863: 284; Alexander, 1915. Tipula (Vestiplex) balioptera: Alexander, 1943; 1965; Starkevich & Paramonov, 2016: 82. Type material examined. LECTOTYPE ♂: CANADA, English River [date unknown], Kennicot (MCZ). Additional material examined. CANADA. Alberta: 1 ♂, Banff, 9.vii.1922, C.B.D. Garrett (USNM). Ontario: 1 ♂, Iroquis Falls, 22.vi.1987 (CNC); Quebec: 1 ♂, Bradore Bay, 23.vii.1929, W.J. Brown (CNC); 1 ♂, Ft. Chimo, 24.vii.1948, H.H. Macleod, (CNC); 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Great Whale R., 8.vii.1949, J. R. Vockeroth (CNC). USA. Alaska: 2 ♂, Anchorage, 20.vii.1978, P.H. Arnaud, Jr., at light, R. W. Doane Collection (CAS); 1 ♂, No. 31 Glenn Hwy, Matanuska val. 60 mi. NE Anchorage, 4.vii.1957, G.W. Byers (SEMC); 1 ♂, No. 18, 15 mi. SE Anchorage, 28.vi.1957, G.W. Byers (SEMC); 3 ♂, Alcan Hwy, Keystone Canyon, 5 mi. W Valdez, 9.vii.1949, E.K. Miller, No. 21 (UMMZ); 2 ♂, Anchorage, 1–15.vii.1930, B. Locker (UMMZ); 1 ♀, Mt. McKinley NP, 3900 ft, 24.vi.1957, G.W. Byers & party (USNM). MONGOLIA. Bayan-Olgiy Aimag: 6 ♂, Deluun Soum, Gantsmodi Gol 27 km S Deluun, N47.66395, E90.71841, 2196 m, 5–6.vii.2009, S. Podenas, MAIS2009070502. Khovd Aimag: 4 ♂, 1 ♀, Monkhkhayrkhan Soum, Bortin Gol ~ 14 km SSE Monkhkhayrkhan, N46.92136, E91.91077, 2311 m, 15.vii.2009, Salix shrubs, S. Podenas, MAIS2009071501. Elevation range in Mongolia. Adults were collected at altitudes ranging from 2190 m to 2300 m. Period of activity. Adults are active from early to the middle of July. Known distribution. Canada, Russia (Yakutiya) and USA (Oosterbroek 2019). Recorded here for the first time from Mongolia (Map 2). Redescription. Male. Body length 13.5–16.1 mm, wing length 13.9–15.4 mm. General body coloration brownish yellow. Head. Brownish gray, vertex and occiput gray pruinose with dark brown median line. Rostrum brownish, sparsely dusted with gray, nasus short. Antenna 13-segmented, if bent backward reaching base of wing. Scape and pedicel yellow, first ...