Mycetophila lobulata Zaitzev, 1999*

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 lobulata Zaitzev, 1999*
status

 

Mycetophila lobulata Zaitzev, 1999*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio aboënsis; municipality: Perniö; locality: Matilda ; decimalLatitude: 60.329; decimalLongitude: 23.670; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-8-15 /9-15; habitat: Semi-natural forest with lime; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ GoogleMaps

Distribution

Palaearctic. The species was described from Russia (European part and Far East, Zaitzev 1999) and has been later found from southern Sweden ( Kurina et al. 2004). No previous records from Finland.

Ecology

In Sweden collected from a mixed forest ( Kurina et al. 2004), the Finnish sampling site is a herb-rich forest in the hemiboreal zone. Saproxylic, larvae were found in a bracket fungus ( Inonotus sp; Zaitzev 1999, Zaitzev 2003).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Mycetophila