Dasyhelea (Dicryptoscena) modesta ( Winnertz, 1852 )

Dasyhelea (Dicryptoscena) modesta ( Winnertz, 1852) View in CoL

Ceratopogon modestus Winnertz, 1852: 43 .

Ceratopogon aestivus Winnertz, 1852: 42 .

Dasyhelea longipalpis Kieffer, 1913b: 37 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea inclusa Kieffer, 1918: 188 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea strobli Kieffer, 1919: 63 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea pratensis Goetghebuer, 1920: 44 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea bihamata Kieffer, 1923: 667 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea moascari Macfie, 1943: 153 View in CoL .

Dasyhelea densipilosa Tokunaga, 1963: 41 View in CoL .

Distribution

Norway, Sweden, Russia (Karelia, Leningrad Oblast, North Ossetia), Estonia, Lithuania, Great Britain, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine (Crimea), Bulgaria, Andorra, Spain, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Japan, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen ( Dominiak & Szadziewski 2010).

Biology

Preimaginal stages inhabit a wide range of aquatic and semiaquatic habitats and can be found in ponds, mud, swamps, peat bogs, the littoral zone of lakes and saline habitats ( Thienemann 1915, 1950; Mayer 1934; Szadziewski 1986; Przhiboro 1999; Chandler et al. 2008).