A review of fungus gnats in the tribe Exechiini (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from the J. W. Zetterstedt collection at the Museum of Zoology in Lund, Sweden
Author
Kjaerandsen, Jostein
text
Zootaxa
2005
856
1
35
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.170744
02642089-f320-4b80-9a10-5558b00543c9
11755326
170744
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Notolopha brachycera
(
Zetterstedt, 1852
)
sp. restit. stat. n.
Mycetophila brachycera
Zetterstedt, 1852
: 4224
Brachycampta brachycera
;
Poppius, Lundström & Frey 1917
: 667
nec
Rhymosia cristata
;
Edwards 1924
: 163
Allodiopsis
(
Notolopha
)
tuomikoskii
Zaitzev & Maximova, 2000
: 177
syn. n.
Material.
Holotype
(
Fig. 8
) male [SPM005230, with light green tag, labelled:
M.
brachycera
Zett.
ď Mulfjäll.] –
Sweden
: JÄ, Mullfjället,
30. July 1840
. Undetermined specimen in the "Insecta Lapponica" collection.
Material.
Male [SPM005231, without coloured tag, unlabelled] – Locality unknown,
undated.
The
type
specimen confirms well with the drawings and description of
Allodiopsis
(
Notolopha
)
tuomikoskii
provided by
Zaitzev & Maximova (2000)
, including shape and distribution of setae on the mesoscutum.
Tuomikoski (1966)
apparently was aware of this species, but in the collections at Finnish Museum of Natural History there are material of both
N. brachycera
and
N. sibirica
Zaitzev & Maximova, 2000
mixed under the informal name "
subcristata
". As this species by most authors has been synonymized with
N. cristata
, following
Edwards (1924)
, this represents the first correctly reported record of this species from
Sweden
after
Poppius et al. (1917)
. Hedmark (2000), however, correctly suggested that
N. brachycera
possibly could be a valid name for the distinct variant of
N. cristata
(
Staeger, 1840
)
he reported from northern
Sweden
.