Docosia expectata Laštovka & Ševčík, 2006

Kolcsár, Levente-Péter & Salmela, Jukka, 2017, New taxonomic and faunistic records of fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera) from Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, Check List 13 (5), pp. 533-559 : 542-543

Docosia expectata Laštovka & Ševčík, 2006

Material examined. Figure 1. Romania: Groșii Țibleșului, Tibleș Mt., Minghet Valley, mixed forest, dominated by Fagus sylvatica , 777 m a.s.l., 47.5685°N, 024.1117° E, 18 May 2014, Kolcsár L.-P. leg., 1 male DIPT-JS-2016-0226.

The species was described from the Czech Republic and Slovakia ( Laštovka and Ševčík 2006), and is also known from Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and Finland (see Jakovlev et al. 2014). The species is new for Romanian fauna. Biology of D. expectata is still poorly known, but the species is perhaps associated with broadleaved forests ( Kurina et al. 2004, Jakovlev et al. 2014).

Docosia larvae are associated with various decaying organic matter, including fungi and rotting wood ( Jakovlev et al. 2014). Docosia has a close relationship with Boletina and should be classified with the Gnoristinae ( Rindal et al. 2009, Martinsson et al. 2011).