Mycomya (Mycomyopsis) fennica Vaeisaenen , 1979

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

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scientific name

Mycomya (Mycomyopsis) fennica Vaeisaenen , 1979
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Mycomya (Mycomyopsis) fennica Vaeisaenen, 1979

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 31; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio aboensis; verbatimLocality: Turku, Pomponrahka; decimalLatitude: 60.508; decimalLongitude: 22.250; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-8-15 /10-3; habitat: rich fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Jari Ilmonen; individualCount: 24; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; verbatimLocality: Espoo, Matalajärvi; verbatimElevation: 23 m; decimalLatitude: 60.247; decimalLongitude: 24.686; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-21 /10-20; habitat: swampy lake shore GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0011 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Tornio, Rakanjänkkä; decimalLatitude: 65.890; decimalLongitude: 24.317; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-6 /9-26; habitat: rich spring fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0023 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Sodankylä, Heinäaapa; decimalLatitude: 67.596; decimalLongitude: 26.883; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-10 /9-19; habitat: rich spring fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0013 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Kittilä, Akaharamanvuoma; decimalLatitude: 67.593; decimalLongitude: 25.302; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-8-2 /9-3; habitat: intermediate rich flark fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0031 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 7; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Kittilä, Vasanvuoma; decimalLatitude: 67.582; decimalLongitude: 25.203; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-8-2 /9-3; habitat: rich fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps

Distribution

European. Known from northern Europe, Estonia, Austria, Germany and NW Russia ( Chandler 2004). In Fennoscandia only known from Norway ( Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008) and Finland ( Väisänen 1984).

Ecology

The species is most likely associated with peatlands ( Väisänen 1984, Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008). All new material presented here was collected from mires, invariably from minerotrophic rich fens. Immature stages are unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Mycomya