Vol. 78 2026

ARTICLES

A New Record of the Non-native Species Atypophthalmus (Atypophthalmus) umbratus (Diptera: Tipuloidea) in Romania, with COI-sequenced Specimens

Alexandru-Mihai Pintilioaie 1,2,*, Viorel Dumitru Gavril3 & Ionela Mădălina Viciriuc4

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*1ICI RECENT AIR Center, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research on the Marine Environment and Marine Terrestrial Atmosphere, Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, “Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea” Marine Biological Station, Nicolae Titulescu str. no. 163, Agigea, Constanţa, Romania; E-mail: alexandrupintilioaie@gmail.com
2Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Biology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Carol I Avenue no. 20A,
700505 Iași, Romania.
3Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, 296 Splaiul Independentei, 060031 Bucharest, Romania; E-mail: viorel.gavril26@gmail.com
4INRAE, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Sophia Agrobiotech Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France; E-mail: ionela-madalina.viciriuc@inrae.fr

https://doi.org/10.71424/azb78.1.002926

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Abstract

Atypophthalmus (Atypophthalmus) umbratus (Diptera: Tipuloidea), a non-native species in Europe, is reported for the second time from Romania, where it was reared from two ornamental rose plants (Rosa sp.) imported from the Netherlands. Some specimens were COI barcoded to provide a genetic reference for future DNA-based analyses investigating its distribution across Europe and not only. Furthermore, based on genetic similarities between our Romanian specimens and DNA sequences of unidentified crane fly species available in GenBank we suggest that this species could also be present in Australia, China and Pakistan.

Key words

Allochthonous, Crane flies, DNA barcoding, Insecta, Introduced, Species distribution

How to Cite
Pintilioaie A.-M., Gavril V. D. & Viciriuc I. M. 2026. A New Record of the Non-native Species Atypophthalmus (Atypophthalmus) umbratus (Diptera: Tipuloidea) in Romania, with COI-sequenced Specimens. Acta zoologica bulgarica 78.

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