Mycomya (Mycomya) thula Vaeisaenen , 1984***

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 (Mycomya) thula Vaeisaenen , 1984***
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Mycomya (Mycomya) thula Vaeisaenen, 1984***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0071 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 3; sex: 2 males, 1 female; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Joutenoja; decimalLatitude: 67.821; decimalLongitude: 29.440; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16/9-18; habitat: headwater stream, seminatural boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0006 ; 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: 2012-7-10/8-16; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps

Distribution

Holarctic. The description of Mycomya thula (Fig. 8) was based on a holotype male from USA, Alaska ( Väisänen 1984), with no further records. New for the Palaearctic region and the first record of this species from Finland.

Ecology

Extremely poorly known species. Finnish collecting sites are headwater streams with rich riparian vegetation, surrounded by coniferous forests. Immature stages are unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Mycomya