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Type: Article
Published: 2009-12-22
Page range: 229–233
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Two new records of Tipuloidea (Diptera) from a cold spring in NW Russia

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St.Petersburg 199034, Russia
Pediciidae Tipulidae Dicranota Tipula distribution habitat cold spring

Abstract

Dicranota (Rhaphidolabis) exclusa (Walker, 1848) (Pediciidae) and Tipula (Savtshenkia) benesignata Mannheims, 1954 (Tipulidae) inhabit a cold spring habitat in the environs of St. Petersburg. The first species is for the first time recorded for European Russia, the second one, for Leningrad Province. The habitat is briefly characterized and illustrated.