Mycomya (Mycomya) lambi 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) lambi Edwards, 1941

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0066 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Joutenoja; decimalLatitude: 67.821; decimalLongitude: 29.440; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16 /9-18; habitat: headwater stream, seminatural boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0152 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.846; decimalLongitude: 29.471; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16 /9-18; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0261 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja, Ahot; decimalLatitude: 67.816; decimalLongitude: 29.426; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 2013-8-7; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. In Europe perhaps a boreo-montane species ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007), also recorded from the Faroes ( Kjaerandsen and Jørgensen 1992) and from two coastal sites in Scotland ( Falk and Chandler 2005). In Fennoscandia known from Finland, Norway and Sweden. Rather poorly known and rarely collected in Sweden (northern provinces JÄ and TO, Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). In Norway recorded from Finnmark, the northernmost part of the country ( Søli and Rindal 2012). A few scattered Finnish records ( Väisänen 1984), mainly from old-growth forests.

Ecology

New records from Savukoski are from headwater streams with rich riparian vegetation surrounded by coniferous forests. One of the sites ( Törmäoja, Ahot) is a sloping meadow with short herbs and grasses on a moraine soil. Immature stages are unknown.