Synplasta gracilis Winnertz, 1864

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 : 545

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.5.533

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5481198

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Synplasta gracilis Winnertz, 1864
status

 

Synplasta gracilis Winnertz, 1864

Material examined. Figure 1. Romania: Vârghiș, Vârghiș Canyon, hornbeam-beech forest, 630 m a.s.l., 46.2174° N, 025.5435° E, 5 May 2014, Török E. leg., 2 males, DIPT-JS-2016-0254.

This is a rather widespread European species, here reported for the first time from Romania. Biology of the genus is poorly known, but S. gracilis has been reared from Mycoacia uda and Pleurotus dryinus ( Chandler 1993) , and Zaitzev (2003) referred to a record from Coprinus fruiting bodies. Synplasta species are generally rare in the boreal zone, mainly associated with deciduous or old growth forests (J. Jakovlev, pers. comm.), and thus, S. gracilis is Red-Listed (NT) in Finland ( Penttinen et al. 2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Synplasta

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