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 Speolepta leptogaster (Winnetrz, 1863) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Palmen, J. ; individualCount: 1 ; Location: country: Finland ; stateProvince: Savonia borealis; verbatimLocality: Maaninka, Tuovilanlahti; decimalLatitude: 63.23 ; decimalLongitude: 27.09 ; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: eventDate: 1865-7-16 ; Record Level: institutionCode: MZHF Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Jakovlev; J. Penttinen ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; Location: country: Finland ; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Muonio, Pallasjaervi ; decimalLatitude: 68.018 ; decimalLongitude: 24.153 ; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2006-6-18/7-14 Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Penttinen ; individualCount: 1 ; Location: country: Finland ; stateProvince: Tavastia australis; verbatimLocality: Kangasala, Suorama; decimalLatitude: 61.463 ; decimalLongitude: 23.995 ; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2009-6-15/8-15 ; habitat: dry/semi-dry herb-rich forest, with Tilia and Populustremula Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0031 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; Location: country: Finland ; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Toermaeoja ; decimalLatitude: 67.846 ; decimalLongitude: 29.471 ; 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. Widely distributed in Europe ( Chandler 2004 ), also in the Nordic Region, but records from Finland are very scanty. Only one recent record from Murmansk Province in NW Russia ( Polevoi 2010 ). Ecology The species lives as larvae in caves and rock crevices, on the walls, in slimy tubes, pupae are free hanging ( Madwar 1937 , Sevcik et al. 2012 ).