Sciophila caesarea Chandler, 2001*

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 caesarea Chandler, 2001*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: genus: Sciophila; specificEpithet: caesarea; scientificNameAuthorship: Chandler, 2001; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia inarensis; municipality: Utsjoki; locality: Galddasjohka ; decimalLatitude: 69.861; decimalLongitude: 27.809; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-7-19 /8-27; habitat: stream valley in fell area; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: genus: Sciophila; specificEpithet: caesarea; scientificNameAuthorship: Chandler, 2001; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; municipality: Enontekiö; locality: Kilpisjaervi _Saana_South_2 ; decimalLatitude: 69.035; decimalLongitude: 20.839; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-8-1 /8-15; habitat: subarctic mountain birch forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M.Jaschhof; C.Jaschhof; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: genus: Sciophila; specificEpithet: caesarea; scientificNameAuthorship: Chandler, 2001; Location: stateProvince: Satakunta; municipality: Ikaalinen; locality: Multinharju ; decimalLatitude: 61.907; decimalLongitude: 23.399; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2004-7-2 /8-24; habitat: old-growth forest, Myrtillus type; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

European. Described from Great Britain ( Chandler 2001), later found from southern Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New for Finland. Record from Czech republic in Fauna Europaea ( Chandler 2004) is erroneous (J. Ševčík, pers.comm.).

Ecology

Finnish collecting sites are a luxurious old-growth coniferous forest (Ikaalinen) in central Finland, a mountain birch forest with rich vegetation (Saana) and a subarctic stream valley surrounded by a strip of mountain birch forest (Galddasjohka). Immature stages are unknown.