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).