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 1314-2828-2-1068 Trichonta palustris Maximova, 2002*** Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0004 ; 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 Palaearctic. The species was described from West Siberia, Kutznetskyi Alatau Nature Reserve, based on a holotype male ( Maximova 2002 ). Here reported for the first time from Europe. The Finnish sampling locality is in NE Lapland, north boreal zone. Ecology The holotype male was collected from a swamp ( Maximova 2002 ). The Malaise trapping locality in Vaerrioe is a headwater stream with wet margins, including seepages and rich riparian vegetation, surrounded by old-growth boreal forest. Immature stages are unknown.