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
Mycomya (Mycomya) safena
Vaeisaenen
, 1984*
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
MYCE-JS-2013-0383
; recordedBy:
J. Salmela; S. Lapinniemi
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: country:
Finland
; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality:
Pallas-Yllaestunturi
National Park,
Roeyninkuru
; verbatimElevation: 380 m; decimalLatitude:
68.146
; decimalLongitude:
24.071
; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap
; eventDate:
2013-6-5/7-6
; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth spruce forest; Record Level: institutionCode:
JES
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
DIPT-JS-2014-0041
; 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
; verbatimEventDate:
2013-6-29/7-29
; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode:
JES
Distribution
Holarctic. Described from the USA and Canada (
Vaeisaenen
1984
). Recently reported by Polevoi (
Polevoi 2010
) for the first time from the Palaearctic region (NW Russia, Murmansk region). New for Finland.
Ecology
The Finnish collecting sites are headwater streams surrounded by old-growth boreal, spruce dominated forests in Lapland. Immature stages are unknown.