Gymnometriocnemus ( Rhaphidocladius ) brumalis ( Edwards, 1929 )

Gymnometriocnemus ( Rhaphidocladius) brumalis ( Edwards, 1929) View in CoL

Figs 2, 3 View Figs 2–5 .

MATERIAL. Russia: Moscow Region, village Pervomayskoe, left bank of Zhiletovka river , pine forest with admixture of deciduous species 55.46164°N, 037.18284°E, 27.04– 7.05.2022, S.M. Tsurikov, A.G. Zuev ( 19 males) GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. The species, like other members of the subgenus Rhaphidocladius , is characterized by a strongly developed virga beginning in tergite 8 and the absence of a process on tergite 9, which has only a medial fold. The species differs from G. ( R.) tairaprimus by simple, not double, lower appendage of gonocoxite. The species differs from G. ( R.) kamimegavirgus by wing membrane which has setae on at least half of wing, weakly sclerotized and often hardly visible lamella of virga and angulate lower appendage of gonocoxite ( Figs 2, 3 View Figs 2–5 ) [ Makarchenko, Makarchenko, 2019].

DISTRIBUTION. The species was described for Great Britain [ Edwards, 1929]. Registered in Norway [ Stur, Ekrem, 2015]. According to the data in Fauna Europaea the species is also known from Sweden, Finland, Ireland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxemburg, Poland, Switzerland, Nederlands and Spain [ De Jong et al., 2014]. According to the World database of Diptera the species is also widely distributed in Canada and USA [ Evenhuis, Pape, 2023]. The species is not rare but for a long time there was no information about its distribution in Russia. It was recently registerd in Primorsky Krai (Lazovsky District), Jewish Autonomous Region and Khabarovsk Krai ( Khabarovsk District) [ Makarchenko, Makarchenko, 2019]. We prove the distribution of the species in European Part of Russia.