Abstract
A new crane fly species from the genus Phantolabis Alexander, 1956, active in the cold season and previously known by a single, eastern Nearctic species, is described from Primorsky Krai of the Russian Far East. A revised definition of the genus is given.
Highlights
The diverse and widespread crane fly family Limoniidae Speiser, 1909 includes more than 11 000 species in the world fauna
The fauna of the eastern Palaearctic Limoniidae has been intensively studied in Korea (Podenas 2013, 2015, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c; Podenas & Byun 2013, 2014a, 2014b, 2016, 2018; Podenas et al 2015a, 2015b, 2016, 2017, 2019a, 2019b), China (Mao & Yang 2009, 2010; Men 2015a, 2015b; Men & Yu 2015; Zhang et al 2012, 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2016, 2019), Mongolia (Podeniene & Gelhaus 2010, 2015, 2017; Podenas & Gelhaus 2011; Podenas et al 2013; Yadamsuren et al 2015 ) and Japan (Kato et al 2018)
Shcherbakov (Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences) obtained another male of this species from a Malaise trap in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve (Fig. 4), which indicated a wider distribution of this species in Primorsky Krai (Fig. 5)
Summary
The diverse and widespread crane fly family Limoniidae Speiser, 1909 includes more than 11 000 species in the world fauna. In the Palearctic, the family is represented by 78 genera and more than 1700 species, including 1130 in the eastern Palearctic (Oosterbroek 2020). The fauna of Limoniidae of the Russian Far East has been well studied (Savchenko 1983, 1989; Savchenko & Krivolutskaya 1976; Pilipenko & Sidorenko 2006a, 2006b; Pilipenko 2009) and currently includes 56 genera and 415 species (Oosterbroek 2020). Makarchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Far East Branch, Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity). Due to its unusual morphology, which precluded its placement into any known Palearctic limoniid genus, its description was postponed
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