Sciophila salassea Matile, 1983*

Jakovlev, Jevgeni, Salmela, Jukka, Polevoi, Alexei, Penttinen, Jouni & Vartija, Noora-Annukka, 2014, Recent noteworthy findings of fungus gnats from Finland and northwestern Russia (Diptera: Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae and Mycetophilidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1068-1068 : 1068

Sciophila salassea Matile, 1983*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0103 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.846; decimalLongitude: 29.471; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-14/7-10; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Jakovlev; J. Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Savonia borealis; verbatimLocality: Savonranta, Kakonsalo; decimalLatitude: 62.250; decimalLongitude: 28.877; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: eclector trap on aspen log bearing bracket fungus Phellinustremulae; eventDate: 2007-4-28/6-3; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0029 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio kuusamoensis; verbatimLocality: Salla, Kuntasjoki, Värriö Strict Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 320 m; decimalLatitude: 67.749; decimalLongitude: 29.617; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013; verbatimEventDate: 2013-6-4/29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European, possibly boreal–mountainous. The species was described from the Italian Alps ( Matile 1983) and later recorded from Great Britain ( Chandler 2006), and from Fennoscandia: Norway ( Økland and Zaitzev 1997), Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007) and Russian Karelia ( Humala and Polevoi 2008, Polevoi 2000). The species was included in the Finnish Red List ( Penttinen et al. 2010), but is here formally reported as a new species for Finland.

Ecology

Collecting site in Törmäoja is a stream valley with seepages and young deciduous forest. Slopes nearby are coniferous stands dominated by Vaccinium vitis-idaea and Pinus sylvestris . Collecting site in Värriö is a headwater stream surrounded by pristine spruce and pine forest. The male specimen from Savonranta was collected from a decaying aspen ( Populus tremula ) tree by using an eclector trap.

Conservation

The species was red-listed in Finland (EN, Penttinen et al. 2010) based on the single record from Savonranta. Sciophila salassea is also red-listed in Norway (NT), so far observed from pristine spruce forests ( Anonymous 2010, Gammelmo et al. 2010)