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 Phronia gracilis Hackman, 1970 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0179 ; 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: 2012-6-14 /7-10; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Distribution European. The species was described from NE Finland, Kuusamo, Jaekaelaevuoma ( Hackman 1970 ) and has been since recorded only from Germany ( Chandler 2004 ). The species has a characteristic eastern distribution in Finland, so far known from the Kainuu and Kuusamo areas ( Hackman 1970 , Jakovlev 2011b Jakovlev 2011b ) here reported for the first time from NE Lapland. Ecology Collected from old-growth boreal forests. Immature stages are unknown. Larvae of Trichonta and Phronia are usually surface feeders on encrusting fungi and slime moulds ( Gagne 1975 , Gagne 1981 ). Conservation Red-listed (NT) in Finland ( Penttinen et al. 2010 ).