Mycomya (Mycomya) alpina Matile, 1972

Kolcsár, Levente-Péter & Salmela, Jukka, 2017, New taxonomic and faunistic records of fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera) from Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, Check List 13 (5), pp. 533-559 : 541

Mycomya (Mycomya) alpina Matile, 1972

Material examined. Figure 1. Romania: Azuga, Baiul Mts, Limbășel Valley, spruce forest, 1250 m a.s.l., 45.4989° N, 025.6079° E, 26 August 2014, Kolcsár L.-P. leg., 2 males, DIPT-JS-2016-0208 and DIPT-JS-2016-0211; Borsec, Giurgeu Mts, harvested spruce forest, 1125 m a.s.l., 46.9901° N, 025.5534° E, 21 August 2014, Kolcsár L.-P. leg., 1 male, DIPT-JS-2016-0221.

Matile (1972) described this species from the French and Italian Alps. Later Väisänen (1984) redescribed this species and also reported it from Austria and Russian Far East (Kuril Islands). Thus, this species has a highly dis- junct Palaearctic range. Mycomya alpina is here reported for the first time in Europe outside the Central European Alps. Immature stages are unknown, but Mycomya larvae are mostly associated with decaying wood and woodgrowing fungi ( Väisänen 1984), and some species dwell in soil, litter, Carex -tussocks ( Ševčík and Roháček 2008, Jakovlev 2011) and even on (semi) aquatic lakeshores ( Przhiboro 2012).