Recent noteworthy findings of fungus gnats from Finland and northwestern Russia (Diptera: Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae and Mycetophilidae)
Author
Jakovlev, Jevgeni
Author
Salmela, Jukka
Author
Polevoi, Alexei
Author
Penttinen, Jouni
Author
Vartija, Noora-Annukka
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2014
2
1068
1068
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1068
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1068
1314-2828--1068
Ectrepesthoneura nigra Zaitzev, 1984* **
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
M.
Tietaevaeinen
et al.
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: country:
Russia
; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: 5 km N of Tolvojarvi; decimalLatitude:
62.318
; decimalLongitude:
31.436
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy:
A. Polevoi
; Event: samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap
; eventDate:
1999-6-11
/22; Record Level: institutionCode:
FRIP
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
DIPT-JS-2014-0006
; recordedBy:
J. Salmela; T.
Hietajaervi
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: country:
Finland
; stateProvince: Regio kuusamoensis; verbatimLocality: Salla, Kuntasjoki,
Vaerrioe
Strict Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation:
320 m
; decimalLatitude:
67.749
; decimalLongitude:
29.617
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy:
J. Salmela
; Event: samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap
; eventDate: 2013; verbatimEventDate:
2013-6-4
/29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode:
JES
Distribution
European. The species was known from the type locality in Central Russia (
Zaitzev 1994
) and Norway (
Gammelmo and
Soli
2006
). New to the Republic of Karelia and Finland.
Ecology
The Karelian specimen was collected in
Vaccinium myrtillus
type spruce dominated forest. The Finnish sampling site is a north boreal headwater stream with swampy margins, surrounded by old-growth spruce forest. Larvae feed on fungal mycelium in decaying wood (
Zaitzev 1994
).
Conservation
Red-listed in Norway (NT,
Anonymous 2010
,
Gammelmo et al. 2010
).