Syntemna penicilla Hutson, 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

Syntemna penicilla Hutson, 1979**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0032 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.835; decimalLongitude: 29.454; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-14 /7-10; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Paanajarvi, 4,5 km N of lake Pihlajarvi; decimalLatitude: 66.375; decimalLongitude: 30.367; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2001-6-11 /14; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: G.Varkonyi; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia kajanensis; municipality: Puolanka; locality: Paljakka Strict Nature Reserve ; decimalLatitude: 64.744; decimalLongitude: 28.050; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from pine log, Eclector_trap; startDayOfYear: 2004-8-4/8-14; habitat: old-growth forest, Myrtillus type; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: G.Varkonyi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia kajanensis; municipality: Puolanka; locality: Paljakka Strict Nature Reserve ; decimalLatitude: 64.744; decimalLongitude: 28.050; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from wood; startDayOfYear: 2004-8-4/8-14; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0397 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 2; 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

Fennoscandian. Only known from Finland ( Hutson 1979, Polevoi 2003), Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007) and Norway ( Søli and Rindal 2012). New to the Republic of Karelia and Russia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimen was collected in moist sprucedominated forest. Saproxylic, reared from a rotting pine log ( Jakovlev 2011a).

Conservation

Red-listed in Finland (VU, Penttinen et al. 2010), associated with old-growth boreal forests.