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
Brevicornu arcticum (
Lundstroem
, 1913)*
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
MYCE-JS-2013-0078
; recordedBy:
J. Salmela
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: country:
Finland
; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Joutenoja; decimalLatitude:
67.821
; decimalLongitude:
29.440
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy:
J. Salmela
; Event: samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap
; eventDate:
2012-8-16
/9-18; habitat: headwater stream, seminatural boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode:
JES
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
MYCE-JS-2013-0041
; recordedBy:
J. Salmela
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: country:
Finland
; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski,
Toermaeoja
; decimalLatitude:
67.835
; decimalLongitude:
29.454
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy:
J. Salmela
; Event: samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap
; eventDate:
2012-7-10
/8-16; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode:
JES
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
MYCE-JS-2013-0156
; recordedBy:
J. Salmela
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: country:
Finland
; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski,
Toermaeoja
; decimalLatitude:
67.835
; decimalLongitude:
29.454
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy:
J. Salmela
; Event: samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap
; eventDate:
2012-8-16
/9-18; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode:
JES
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
DIPT-JS-2014-0028
; 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
Holarctic, known from arctic Russia (Kanin Peninsula, as
Brachycampta arctica
,
Lundstroem
and Frey 1913
), Russian Karelia and Murmansk region (
Polevoi 2000
,
Polevoi 2010
), Ireland (
Chandler 1977
), Central Europe (
Chandler 2004
) and USA (
Zaitzev 1988
). In the Nordic countries recorded from Sweden and Norway (
Kjaerandsen 2012
). Perhaps a boreo-montane species (
Kjaerandsen et al. 2007
). New for Finland.
Ecology
Finnish sampling localities are headwater streams surrounded by pristine or seminatural boreal forests. Immature stages are unknown. In their larval habitats,
Brevicornu
do not resemble closely related species of
Allodia
. At least some
Brevicornu
species develop in dead wood and in soil litter, feeding probably on microfungi (
Jakovlev 2011a
).