Acnemia trifida Zaitzev, 1982***

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

Acnemia trifida Zaitzev, 1982***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0089 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Taxon: genus: Acnemia; specificEpithet: trifida; scientificNameAuthorship: Zaitzev, 1982; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Kittilä, Kielisenpalo; decimalLatitude: 68.020; decimalLongitude: 25.063; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-8-2 /9-3; habitat: rich spring fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0080 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 14; sex: male; Taxon: genus: Acnemia; specificEpithet: trifida; scientificNameAuthorship: Zaitzev, 1982; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Kittilä, Nunaravuoma; decimalLatitude: 67.699; decimalLongitude: 25.353; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-8-2 /9-3; habitat: poor sedge fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. Hitherto only known from North America (USA, Zaitzev 1982a). Here reported for the first time from the Palaearctic region, new for Finland.

Ecology

Both collecting sites are pristine north boreal aapamires; Nunaravuoma is a poor sedge fen and Kielisenpalo a rich spring fen. Immature stages are unknown.