Ephemera 27 : 158-167 (10 pages)

First record of Dicranota (Paradicranota) reitteri Mik, 1882 in France with notes on its ecology and an original sampling method (Diptera, Pediciidae)

by Pierre Tillier ✻ & Pierre Clévenot ✻✻ & Adrien Chassa ✻✻✻

✻ Correspondant du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
8, rue d'Aire 95660 Champagne-sur-Oise
p.tillier.entomo@free.fr

✻✻ Teréo Alpes du Sud
1 impasse Sixtine, 05000 Gap, France

✻✻✻ Teréo Alpes du Sud
1 impasse Sixtine 05000 Gap

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Brachyptery Pediciinae Alps Isère and Hautes-Alpes departments new record faunistic list
French translation

Première mention de Dicranota (Paradicranota) reitteri Mik, 1882 pour la France et notes sur son écologie et un original mode de collecte (Diptera, Pediciidae)

brachyptérisme Pediciinae Alpes départements de l’Isère et des Hautes-Alpes citation nouvelle liste faunistique

Dicranota (Paradicranota) reitteri Mik, 1882, a rare alpine species previously known only from Germany, Austria and Italy, is recorded from France for the first time following surveys conducted in the Romanche Valley (Isère) and along the Durance and Séveraisse rivers (Hautes-Alpes). The occupied sites are associated with nival or nival-glacial rivers characterised by high sediment dynamics. Insects were observed exclusively on the undersides of boulders resting on exposed gravel bars in the immediate vicinity of the active channel. Photographs of the adults and male interbases are provided for the first time.