Camptochaeta delicata (Lengersdorf, 1935)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Camptochaeta delicata (Lengersdorf, 1935)

Synonyms.

= macrodon (Frey, 1948); = pallidiventris (Holmgren, 1869) [preocc.].

Literature.

Faunistics: Holmgren (1869): 15, 53 [as Sciara pallidiventris ]; Edwards (1922): 196; Edwards (1924): 164; Summerhayes and Elton (1923): 262; Edwards (1925): 354; Summerhayes and Elton (1928): 209, 218, 228, 236; Lengersdorf (1930a): 55 [all as Sciara pallidiventris ]; Edwards (1935): 534 [as Sciara sp. indet. and Sciara pallidiventris ]; Lengersdorf (1935): 75; Soot-Ryen (1942): 77 [both as Neosciara delicata ]; Frey (1948): 86, 91 [as Bradysia (Diorychophthalma) macrodon ]; Tuomikoski (1967): 47 [as Corynoptera macrodon ] and 50 [as Sciara delicata ]; Hippa and Vilkamaa (1994): 36 [as Camptochaeta delicata ]; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 197 [as Camptochaeta delicata and Sciara pallidiventris ]; Coulson and Refseth (2004): 102 [as Camptochaeta delicata (Frey); recte (Lengersdorf)]; Hågvar et al. (2007): 67; Komarova et al. (2007): 6 [both as Corynoptera delicata ]; Coulson (2008): 161; Coulson (2013): 154 [both as Camptochaeta delicata (Frey); recte (Lengersdorf)]; Mohrig et al. (2013): 174 [as Camptochaeta delicata ]. Taxonomy: Hippa and Vilkamaa (1994): 36; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 197; Mohrig et al. (2013): 174 [all as Camptochaeta delicata ].

Localities.

• Norway; without further locality details (= ‘Norway’) • Finnmark; Karasjok, 20 km N of Karasjok (= '20 km N of Karasjok’).

• Svalbard; Bjørnøya (= 'Bear Island’) • Bjørnøya, Brettingsdalen at the E side of Miseryfjellet (= 'Bear Island, Brettingsdalen’) • Spitsbergen, Adventdalen, Fivelflyane 8 km E of Longyearbyen (= 'Adventdalen, Fivelflyane’) • Spitsbergen, Adventfjorden at the W coast (= 'in Spetsbergia ad Advent Bay’; = 'Spetsbergia, Advent Bay’; = 'Spitzbergen, bei der Advent Bay’; = 'Adventfjorden [Advent Bay]') • Spitsbergen, Aldert Dirkses Bugt in the Wijdefjorden (= 'Spitsbergen, Aldert Dirkses Bay District [Wijde Bay]') • Spitsbergen, Billefjorden between Dickson Land and Bünsow Land (= 'head of Billefjorden [Klaas Billen Bay]') • Spitsbergen, Bünsow Land, Brucebyen 0.5 km S of Kapp Napier (= 'Spitsbergen, Bruce City, head of Klaas Billen Bay’; = 'Spitsbergen, Klaas Billen Bay (Bruce City Region), around Bruce City’; = 'Bruce City, Klaas Billen Bay (S.)'; = 'Brucebyen [Bruce City]') • Spitsbergen, Haakon VII Land, Bockfjorden at the W side of Woodfjorden (= ‘Bockfjorden’) • Spitsbergen, Haakon VII Land, Reinsdyrflya, at the Liefdefjorden (= 'Spitsbergen, Reindeer Peninsula, at the Liefde Bay’; = 'N. Spitsbergen, Liefde Bay’; = 'Liefdefjorden [Liefde Bay]') • Spitsbergen, Haakon VII Land, S side and centre of Reinsdyrflya (= 'West Spitsbergen Island, south side and centre of the east half of Reindeer Peninsula’) • Spitsbergen, Isfjorden (= ‘Isfjorden’) • Spitsbergen, Isfjorden, Dickson Land, Kapp Thordsen (= 'in Spetsbergia ad Cap Torsden in Isfjorden’; = 'Cap Torsden’) • Spitsbergen, Kobbefjorden at the NW coast near the Danskøya (= 'in Spetsbergia ad Kobbebay’; = 'Kobbefjorden [Kobbebay]') • Spitsbergen, Longyearbyen (= 'Spitzbergen, Longyearbyen’; = 'Longyearbyen auf Spitzbergen’; = ‘Longyearbyen’) • Spitsbergen, Nordaustlandet (= 'Spitsbergen, North-East Land’) • Spitsbergen, Nordenskiöld Land, Arctowskifjellet mountain S of Sassenfjorden (= ‘Arctowskifjellet’) • Spitsbergen, Nordenskiöld Land, Helvetiadalen between the mountains Helvetiafjellet and Artowskifjellet N of Adventdalen (= 'front face of Helvetiadalen’) • Spitsbergen, Ny-Friesland, Dirksbukta at the S side of the Dirksodden (= 'Dirksbukta [Aldert Dirkses Bay]'; = 'N. Spitsbergen, Albert Dirkses Bay’) • Spitsbergen, Sassen-Bünsow Land, Sassendalen (= ‘Sassendalen’) • Spitsbergen, Sigridholmen, Kongsfjorden • Spitsbergen, Wijdefjorden (= 'N. Spitsbergen, Wijde Bay’; = 'Wijdefjorden [Wijde Bay]') • Spitsbergen, without further locality details (= 'Spetsbergen; = ‘Spitsbergen’; = ‘Spitzbergen’).

Ecological note.

From plants on flower slopes; Dryas community on mountain slopes ( Dryas octopetala , Carex misandra , Cerania vermicularis , Cetraria nivalis ); over leaves and flowers of Dryas plants; Cassiope heath; lichen-moss heath; plant community ‘fjaeldmark’ (= feldmark; mountain field) with phanerogams, mosses, lichens and Salix polaris ; on Saxifraga oppositifolia ; from grass; under stones with some vegetation; on beaches with Salix polaris and mosses; on shingly raised beaches with Dryas (all Svalbard records). Phenology: Jul.-Aug.