A new species of Elephantomyia crane fly (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Jeju Island, South Korea

Sigitas Podenas; Virginija Podeniene; Tae-Woo Kim; A-Young Kim; Sun-Jae Park; Rasa Aukštikalnienė

doi:10.3897/zookeys.966.48590

A new species of Elephantomyia crane fly (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Jeju Island, South Korea

Zookeys. 2020 Sep 9:966:41-55. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.966.48590. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Sigitas Podenas^{1

2}, Virginija Podeniene², Tae-Woo Kim³, A-Young Kim³, Sun-Jae Park³, Rasa Aukštikalnienė^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str. 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University Vilnius Lithuania.
² Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University, Sauletekio str. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania Nature Research Centre Vilnius Lithuania.
³ Animal Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, South Korea National Institute of Biological Resources Incheon South Korea.

Abstract

A new species of crane fly (Diptera, Limoniidae), Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) hallasana Podenas & Podeniene, sp. nov., from Jeju Island, South Korea is described. Adult and larval characters are illustrated. Elephantomyia (E.) hallasanasp. nov. is the only species of the genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken, 1860 recorded from Jeju Island, South Korea. Habitat, elevation range, and seasonality data are presented. Distributional notes on E. subterminalis Alexander, 1954 in the Far East of Russia (Khabarovskiy and Primorskiy regions) are discussed. An identification key for all Eastern Palaearctic species of subgenus E. (Elephantomyia) is presented.

Keywords: Limoniinae; Eastern Palaearctic; habitat; key; larva; taxonomy.

Sigitas Podenas, Virginija Podeniene, Tae-Woo Kim, A-Young Kim, Sun-Jae Park, Rasa Aukštikalnienė.