Subspecies
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Several subspecies are recognized. Only the nominate subspecies occurs in Germany.
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Synonyms
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Synonymy of Tanyptera atrata atrata:
Tipula atrata Linnaeus, 1758
Ctenophora atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ctenophora atrata atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Xiphura atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Xiphusa atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tanyptera atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tanyptera atrata atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taniptera atrata (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Taniptera atrata atrata (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Tipula ichneumonea De Geer, 1776
Tanyptera ichneumonea (De Geer, 1776)
Ctenophora flavicornis Meigen, 1818
Tanyptera flavicornis (Meigen, 1818)
Ctenophora ruficornis Meigen, 1830
Tanyptera ruficornis (Meigen, 1830)
Xiphura nigrofasciata Brullé, 1832
Ctenophora nigrofasciata (Brullé, 1832)
Tanyptera nigrofasciata (Brullé, 1832)
Xiphura villaretiana Brullé, 1832
Tanyptera villaretiana (Brullé, 1832)
Xiphura nigrita Macquart, 1834 (nomen nudum)
Ctenophora nigrofusciata Meigen, 1838 (misspelling)
Ctenophora amoena Loew, 1871
Tanyptera amoena (Loew, 1871)
Xiphura fulviana Mannheims, 1953 (p. 344) (citing a label name)
Ctenophora vittata auct. nec Meigen, 1830 (erroneous synonymization)
Note: the taxon Ctenophora amoena has been described by Loew based on a
male and female specimen. These specimens were revised by Mannheims (1953).
He found that the female was conspecific with Tanyptera atrata. The
male, however, was a composite specimen. The majority of the specimen
was also Tanyptera atrata, but someone had glued the head of a different
species (likely Phoroctenia vittata) to it. Loew (1871) regarded the male specimen as "typical" in the case that the two specimens should turn out not to be conspecific. Mannheims (1953)
has taken this as an indication to select the male specimen as a
lectotype (although he does not state this explicitly in his paper).
Since the majority of this specimen is Tanyptera atrata, Ctenophora
amoena is a synonym of the nominal Tipula atra. Due to the "mixed"
nature of the original material the name Ctenophora amoena has also been
assigned to other species. After the clarification by Mannheims (1953) these synonymizations must be regarded as erroneous.
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Biology
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Female. Specimen photographed in Göttingen (Niedersachsen) on May 12, 2014. Copyright by Stefan Dippel. Used with permission.
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