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.