Mycetophila distigma Meigen, 1830*

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

Mycetophila distigma Meigen, 1830*
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Mycetophila distigma Meigen, 1830*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 5; sex: 2 males, 3 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.261; decimalLongitude: 24.965; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-6-5 /7-4; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.261; decimalLongitude: 24.965; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-7-5 /7-20; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH GoogleMaps

Distribution

European. Mycetophila distigma (Fig. 21) is recorded from central and northern Europe ( Chandler 2004). In Fennoscandia known from Sweden (Lule Lapmark, Kjaerandsen et al. 2007) and Norway (Akershus, Soli et al. 2009). New for the Finnish fauna.

Ecology

Finnish specimens were collected in wood-storage areas in the city parks of Helsinki. Probably a saproxylic species, reared by Ševčík ( Ševčík 2010) from the polypore fungus Bjerkandera adusta .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Mycetophila