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BOREIDAE (Winter Scorpion-flies)

Winter Scorpion-flies are very small (3 to 5 mm length) mecopterans which are adapted to boreal and high altitude environments. Larvae are scarabiform, forming cells amongst moss rhizoids, on which they feed. Most adult boreids feed on moss leaves, which the highly modified Caurinus dectes feeds on liverworts. Adults are active during the winter months in the more southern part of their distribution, mating and laying eggs amongst the mosses. Adults of Alaskan species are active during the Spring and Summer months. The greatest species diversity is to be found along the Pacific Coast of North America. Adults have adapted to the colder environment by becoming dark in color, presumably to better absorb the winter sunshine. They also have wings reduced to narrow straps in males and short, rounded stubs in females, presumably to reduce body surface area. Females also have an elongate, tubular ovipositor. They have the ability to hop, and some specialists think that they may share a direct ancestral link with fleas.

 


Boreus beybienkoi 1962 Kyrghyzstan
Boreus borealis Banks 1923 U.S.A. (AK)
Boreus brumalis Fitch 1847 U.S.A. (DC, IL, MA, MI, MN, NY, OH, TN, VA, WS), Canada (PQ)
Boreus californicus Packard 1870 U.S.A. (AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA, WY), Canada (AB, BC)
= Boreus unicolor Hine 1901
= Boreus isolatus Carpenter 1935
= Boreus californicus fuscus Carpenter 1935
Boreus chadzhigireji Pliginsky 1914 Ukraine (Crimea)
Boreus coloradensis Byers 1955 U.S.A. (CO, MT, UT, WY)
Boreus elegans Carpenter 1935 U.S.A. (WA), Canada (BC)
Boreus hyemalis (Linnaeus) 1767 Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland
= Panorpa hyemalis Linnaeus 1767
= Gryllus proboscideus Panzer 1796
= Boreus gigas Brauer 1876
Boreus intermedius Lloyd 1934 U.S.A. (AK)
Boreus jacutensis Plutenko 1984 Russia
Boreus jezoensis Hori and Morimoto 1996 Japan
Boreus kratochvili Mayer 1938 Czechoslovakia
Boreus lokayi Klapálek 1901 Romania
Boreus navasi Pliginsky 1914 Ukraine (Crimea)
= Boreus aktijari Pliginsky 1914 Ukraine (Crimea)
Boreus nivoriundus Fitch 1847 U.S.A. (MA, ME, NH, NY, OH, TN, VT)
Boreus nix Carpenter 1935 U.S.A. (AK, MT), Canada (BC)
= Boreus gracilis Carpenter 1935
Boreus orientalis Martynova 1954 Far Eastern Russia
Boreus pilosus Carpenter 1935 U.S.A. (MT), Canada (AB, BC)
Boreus reductus Carpenter 1933 U.S.A. (ID, MT, NV, WA), Canada (BC)
Boreus semenovi Pliginsky 1930 Far Eastern Russia
Boreus sjoestedti Navás 1925 Far Eastern Russia (Kamtchatka Peninsula)
Boreus tardokijanensis Plutenko 1985 Russia
Boreus vlasovi Martynova 1954 Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan
Boreus westwoodi Hagen 1866 Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, European Russia
= Boreus boldyrevi Navás 1911
= Boreus tarnanii Navás 1911
Caurinus dectes Russell 1979 U.S.A. (OR)
Hesperoboreus brevicaudus (Byers) 1961 U.S.A. (OR, WA)
= Boreus brevicaudus Byers 1961
Hesperoboreus notoperates (Cooper) 1972 U.S.A. (CA)
= Boreus notoperates Cooper 1972

 


Last Update: 31 October 1997

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