New records for the Western Balkans cranefly fauna (Diptera, Tipuloidea) with the description of a new Baeoura Alexander (Diptera, Limoniidae)

By

Kolcsár, Levente-Péter
D'Oliveira, Micha
Graf, Wolfram
Quindroit, Clovis
Watanabe, Kozo
Ivković, Marija

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1157

Pages

1--42

Subjects

new records , Pediciidae , taxonomy , terminalia , Tipulidae , Wing

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1157.98997

 

Abstract

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 neretvaensisKolcsár & d’Oliveira,sp. nov.is described from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Slovenia. Images of the habitus, wing, and male and female terminalia of the new species are provided. Furthermore, images of male terminalia and wings of thirteen additional species are presented.