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<taxonomicName authority="Gagne, 1981" authorityName="Gagne" authorityYear="1981" box="[168,490,1556,1581]" class="Insecta" family="Mycetophilidae" genus="Trichonta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="546" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="comis">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[168,347,1556,1580]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="546">Trichonta comis</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Gagne RJ" box="[168,304,1589,1609]" pageId="13" pageNumber="546" refId="ref20929" refString="Gagne RJ (1981) A monograph of Trichonta with a model for the distribution of Holarctic Mycetophilidae (Diptera). US Department of Agriculture, Science and Education Administration, Washington, DC. 64 pp." type="book" year="1981">Gagné 1981: 17</bibRefCitation>
(figs 126128)
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="1964-08-21" collectingDateMax="2014-05-17" collectingDateMin="1964-08-21" collectionCode="R, MZHF" collectorName="Tuomikoski &amp; Kolcsar L. - P." country="Finland" county="Maramuree Mt." elevation="788" latitude="47.8867" location="Kuusamo" longLatPrecision="6" longitude="24.3904" municipality="Repedea" pageId="13" pageNumber="546" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="holotype">
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male.
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,
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.
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leg., pinned specimen, abdomen in a microvial in glycerol (
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).
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:
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,
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, wet naturally opened area in a spruce forest with fallen trees,
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,
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,
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leg., DIPT-JS-2016-0220,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,548,1860,1885]" pageId="13" pageNumber="546">Redescription of male. Head.</emphasis>
Dark brown, vertex
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with numerous short pale setae. Lateral ocelli touching eye margins, median ocellus small, arranged in a shallow triangle. Ommatidia pubescent. Clypeus rounded, length/ width ratio 0.30. Face and clypeus light brown, bearing light setae. Mouthparts light brown. Palpus 5-segmented, segments yellowish brown, segments 35 apically
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<paragraph blockId="13.[813,1422,1112,2091]" pageId="13" pageNumber="546">slightly infuscated. Palpal segments 25 bearing strong dark dorso-apical setae, their length about as long as or shorter than respective palpus width. Ratios of 3 apical palpal segments (3:4, 4:5): 0.79, 0.65. Sensilla cochle- ariformis present on base of third palpomere, arranged in a regular circular shape. Scape and pedicel yellowish brown, first flagellomere basally yellowish brown, apically darker; flagellomeres 214 dark brown. Scape elongated, conical, pedicel globular, their length ratio (length of scape/pedicel) 1.69. Flagellomeres cylindrical, except last one slightly conical, length/width ratios of first, second, fifth and last flagellomeres 2.72, 1.82, 2.0 and 4.1, respectively.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[850,942,1556,1580]" pageId="13" pageNumber="546">Thorax.</emphasis>
Mainly brown, anterior corners of scutellum, antepronotum and proepisternum yellowish. Anepisternum with 5 or 6 strong setae and with several inconspicuous setae. Laterotergite setose, other pleural plates glabrous. Halteres yellow, stem sparsely setose.
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Coxae yellowish, apically infuscated, anterior edge of fore coxa bearing several light setae. Hind coxa with a posterobasal seta and hind tibia without posteroventral and anteroventral setae. Trochanters yellowish, ventrally black. Femora yellowish, with a narrow ventral band fading toward femoral apices. Tibiae and tarsi yel- lowish. Anteroapical depressed area of fore tibia ovate, bearing a comb of circa 26 hyaline setae. Length ratios of femur to tibia for fore-, mid- and hind legs: 1.0, 0.95, 0.88. Length ratios of tibia to basitarsus for fore-, mid- and hind legs: 1.24, 1.5, 1.62.
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Hyaline, length
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. C and R veins dark brown, M1 and M2 mostly brown, CuA and M4 brown; veins r-m, first sector of M4, M1+2 and bases of M1 and M2 pale. These pale veins and Rs are also glabrous, bear- ing no stout, dark setae.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,324,330,354]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Abdomen.</emphasis>
Brown, bearing light setae. Ninth tergite and cerci as in
<figureCitation box="[332,439,364,388]" captionStart="Figures 1824" captionStartId="13.[168,239,986,1006]" captionTargetBox="[168,1414,175,948]" captionTargetId="figure-450@13.[168,1419,160,962]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figures 1824. Trichonta comis Gagné, 1981, male hypopygium. 18: 9th tergite and cerci, dorsal view, 19: hypopygium, dorsal view (cerci omitted), 20: gonostylus, inner lateral view, 21: dorsal lobe of gonostylus, 22: apical half of the ventral lobe of gonostylus, 23: median projection of ventral lobe of gonostylus, dorsolateral view, 24: aedeagus." pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Figure 18</figureCitation>
. Gonocoxite dark brown, bear- ing numerous light setae (
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); ventrocaudal margin with a very modest median elevation. Gonostylus composed of two main lobes, dorsal and ventral (
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). Dorsal lobe (
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) is simple, lingulate, widest medially and narrowing apically; 14 stout setae on inner surface and four setae in a row on dorsal margin. Ventral lobe is intricate, consisting of the lobe itself and median projections. Apical half of the ventral lobe of gonostylus is rectangular; caudal outer corner is angular, bearing a dense dark setosity; inner corner with a finger-like pro- jection and with a long subapical seta (
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); caudal margin even/truncated, with rather long pale setae. One of the projections of the ventral lobe is conspicuous, erect, dark brown; its stalk is widest basally, glabrous, narrowing toward apex; the apex is a beak-like structure, having a larger, pointed tooth and a comb consisting of ca 710 blunt teeth (
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). Aedeagus is rather wide, with a deep U-shaped median incision; apex truncated, rounded; caudal lateral corners with several sharp teeth (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,296,1076,1100]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<paragraph blockId="14.[167,776,160,2049]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,297,1109,1133]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Biology.</emphasis>
Immature stages of the species are unknown, but adults have often been collected from forests (see Taxon discussion below).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,472,1211,1235]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Taxonomic discussion.</emphasis>
Holarctic species of the genus
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<emphasis box="[244,348,1245,1269]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Trichonta</emphasis>
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were revised by
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, and since then, 20 northern hemisphere species have been described (
<bibRefCitation author="Chandler PJ" box="[283,445,1313,1337]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="237 - 254" refId="ref19989" refString="Chandler PJ (1992) A review of the British Phronia Winnertz and Trichonta Winnertz (Dipt., Mycetophilidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 128: 237 - 254." type="journal article" year="1992">Chandler 1992</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Chandler PJ" box="[455,511,1313,1337]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="450 - 506" refId="ref20183" refString="Chandler PJ (2009) The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Kero- platidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species. In: Cerretti P, Mason F, Minelli A, Nardi G, Whitmore D (Eds) Research on the terrestrial arthropods of Sardinia (Italy). Zootaxa 2318: 450 - 506." type="journal article" year="2009">2009</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Bragina IA" box="[521,667,1313,1337]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="223 - 226" refId="ref19756" refString="Bragina IA (1994) New Trichonta Winnertz species (Diptera, Mycetophiloidea) from the south of west Siberia. International Journal of Dipterological Research 5: 223 - 226." type="journal article" year="1994">Bragina 1994</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Chandler P &amp; Ribeiro E" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="1 - 170" refId="ref20345" refString="Chandler P, Ribeiro E (1995) The Sciaroidea (Diptera) (excluding Sciaridae) of the Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores). Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal Historia Natural, Suplemento 3: 1 - 170." type="journal article" year="1995">Chandler and Ribeiro 1995</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Wu H &amp; Yang J &amp; Cheng R &amp; Zheng Q" box="[366,525,1347,1371]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="1 - 318" refId="ref24712" refString="Wu H, Yang J, Cheng R, Zheng Q (1995) Diptera: Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae. In: Zhu T (Ed) Insects and Macrofungi of Gutian- shan, Zhejiang. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 1 - 318." type="book chapter" year="1995">Wu et al. 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Zaitzev AI" box="[536,679,1347,1371]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="77 - 386" refId="ref24828" refString="Zaitzev AI (2003) Fungus gnats (Diptera, Sciaroidea) of the fauna of Russia and adjacent regions. Part II. International Journal of Dip- terological Research 14 (2 - 4): 77 - 386." type="journal article" year="2003">Zaitzev 2003</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Hong W &amp; Wang Y &amp; Xu H" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="503 - 511" refId="ref21039" refString="Hong W, Wang Y, Xu H (2007) The genus Trichonta Winnertz (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in China, with descriptions of two new species. Entomological News 118 (5): 503 - 511." type="journal article" year="2007">Hong et al. 2007</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis box="[281,456,1381,1405]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Trichonta comis</emphasis>
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is characterized by the presence of single posterobasal seta on hind coxa, absence of ventral setae on hind tibia, setosity of Cu petiole and hyaline wing lamina. In addition, the apical half of ventral lobe of gonostylus is bears a long seta. The aedeagus, not illustrated or verbally described by
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, is also quite peculiar due to its spinose caudal corners. The type locality in
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(Kuusamo, Juuma) is not known in detail, but is most likely within Oulanka National Park; the
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male is the only specimen recorded from
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. In
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the species has been collected from both birch (
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<emphasis box="[355,425,1754,1778]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Betula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (
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) and spruce (
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<emphasis box="[705,766,1755,1778]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Picea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (
<bibRefCitation author="Okland B &amp; Zaitzev AI" box="[175,456,1786,1812]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="27 - 38" refId="ref22695" refString="Okland B, Zaitzev AI (1997) Mycetophilids (Diptera, Sciaroidea) from southeastern Norway. Fauna Norvegica Seria B 44: 27 - 38." type="journal article" year="1997">Økland and Zaitzev 1997</bibRefCitation>
) dominated forests. The spe- cies is also known from the
<collectingCountry box="[505,680,1822,1846]" name="Czech Republic" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Czech Republic</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Sevcik J" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="97 - 105" refId="ref23597" refString="Sevcik J (1999) Fifty species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophili- dae) new for the Czech Republic and / or Slovakia, including a new species of Allodia Winnertz. Casopis Slezskeho zemskeho muzea Opava (A) 48: 97 - 105." type="journal article" year="1999">Ševčík 1999</bibRefCitation>
, collected from a virgin beech forest) and
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Sevcik J &amp; Kosel" box="[175,455,1889,1916]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" refId="ref23881" refString="Sevcik J, Kosel (2009 b) Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Mycetophilidae Newman, 1834. http: // www. edvis. sk / diptera 2009 /. Accessed on: 2017 - 07 - 24." type="url" year="2009">Ševčík and Košel 2009b</bibRefCitation>
). It is new to the Romanian fauna.
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<emphasis box="[241,414,1923,1947]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Trichonta comis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most likely a rare, boreo-montane forest-dwelling species, showing affinities to pristine forests. Larvae of
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<emphasis box="[356,460,1991,2015]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="547">Trichonta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are predominantly associated with wood-decaying fungi (e.g.,
<bibRefCitation author="Jakovlev J" box="[515,671,2025,2049]" pageId="14" pageNumber="547" pagination="157 - 189" refId="ref21251" refString="Jakovlev J (2011) Fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) associated with dead wood and wood growing fungi: new rearing data from Finland and Russian Karelia and general analysis of known larval microhabitats in Europe. Entomologica Fennica 22 (3): 157 - 189." type="journal article" year="2011">Jakovlev 2011</bibRefCitation>
)
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