Mycomya (Mycomya) collini Edwards, 1941**

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

Mycomya (Mycomya) collini Edwards, 1941**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Onezhskoe lake, island Paleostrov; decimalLatitude: 62.569; decimalLongitude: 35.261; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep netting; eventDate: 2004-7-3; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Jakovlev; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio aboensis; verbatimLocality: Karjalohja, Karkali; decimalLatitude: 60.238; decimalLongitude: 23.785; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2004-6-16 /8-23; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Tavastia australis; verbatimLocality: Lahti, Mukkula; decimalLatitude: 61.017; decimalLongitude: 25.643; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-15 /8-15; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

European. Rare species known by few records from Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Norway and Finland ( Edwards 1941, Väisänen 1984, Chandler 2004, Kjaerandsen and Jordal 2007), recently found also in Slovakia ( Ševčík and Kurina 2011). Here reported for the first time from Russia. Only two previous collecting localities in South Finland ( Väisänen 1984).

Ecology

New records from Russian Karelia (Paleostrov Island) and Finland (Lahti) are from herb-rich old-growth forests on fertile soil close to lake shores. Immature stages are unknown.