Nephrotoma guestfalica is a species of crane fly within the family Tipulidae. It is present throughout the Palearctic and the species consists of multiple subspecies. Nephrotoma guestfalica has a preference for sandy soils, especially river banks.
Subspecies
Nephrotoma guestfalica guestfalica (Westhoff, 1879) - Native to Algeria and Tunisia.Herman de Jong, H. de Jong, Aouatif Adghir, A. Adghir, Erik-Jan Bosch, E. Bosch, & Kawtar Kettani, K. Kettani. (0000). Taxonomy of Nephrotoma guestfalica (Westhoff, 1879) (Diptera, Tipulidae), with the description of a new subspecies from Morocco. Tijdschrift voor entomologie, 163, 31-45. doi: 10.1163/22119434-20192086 Nephrotoma guestfalica hartigiana Oosterbroek, 1982 - Native to Morocco. Nephrotoma guestfalica surcoufi (Pierre, 1925) - Native to Sardinia.Nardi G., Whitmore D., Bardiani M., Birtele D., Mason F., Spada L. & Cerretti P. (eds), Biodiversity of Marganai and Montimannu (Sardinia). Research in the framework of the ICP Forests network. Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati, 5: 641–658. Nephrotoma guestfalica vaillanti (de Jong, Adghir and Bosch, 2021) - Native to: Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Corsica, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, South Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey. It can also be found on the islands of Corsica, Corfu, Lefkada, Lesvos, Kerkyra, Sicily, Mallorca.
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