Swedish records of Keroplatus tipuloides
Original and used names: Keroplatus tipuloides Bosc, 1792:42. = Ceroplatus sesioides Wahlberg, 1839:3.
Swedish sources: Ceroplatus sesioides: Wahlberg 1839:3 [ÖG]; Wahlberg 1848:317 [ÖG]; Wahlberg 1849:128 [ÖG]; Zetterstedt 1850:3439 [ÖG]; Poppius 1904:144 [ÖG]; Tullgren & Wahlgren 1920–22:466 [ÖG]; Wahlgren 1921:154 [ÖG]; Väisänen 1982c:114 [ÖG]; Andersson et al. 1987:72 [Sweden]; Keroplatus sesioides: Krivosheina & Mamaev 1988a:203 [ÖG]; Keroplatus tipuloides: Sörensson 1994:15 [SK]; Sörensson 1994:23 [SK, UP]; Chandler (2005) [Sweden]; Gärdenfors (2005) [Skåne län, Hallands län, Östergötlands län, Södermanlands län, Uppsala län]; Evenhuis 2006:60 [Sweden]; Keroplatus tipuloides: Kjærandsen et al. 2007:20 [Nemoral–boreonemoral — •SK•HA•ÖG•SÖ•UP•].
World distribution: Palaearctic; widely distributed in Europe.
Remarks: This large species has since long attracted interest. Wahlberg (1848, 1849) described the biology of its luminous larvae and pupae. Redlisted (NT) in Sweden (Gärdenfors 2005).