Sciophila fridolini Stackelberg, 1943

Salmela, Jukka & Kaunisto, Kari M, 2015, Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera), Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 5228-5228 : 5228

Sciophila fridolini Stackelberg, 1943

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0200 ; recordedBy: E. Rundgren; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inariensis; verbatimLocality: Inari, Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area, Ceavrajohoaivi; verbatimLatitude: 69.1750; verbatimLongitude: 26.2012; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-6-26 /8-5; habitat: alpine headwater stream; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. The species was described from Russia, Kola Peninsula ( Stackelberg 1943), and has since been recorded from the British Isles ( Hutson 1979), Norway ( Gammelmo and Søli 2006), USA ( Zaitzev 1982) and Czech Republic ( Ševčík 2005). Record from East Palaearctic ( Chandler 2004) refers to Kola Peninsula, so it is not an additional area of distribution (P.J. Chandler, pers.comm.).

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown, but S. fridolini is presumably a woodland species ( Falk and Chandler 2005). The Finnish collecting site is an alpine wetland along a headwater stream, characterized by Carex tussocks, Viola biflora and sparse mountain birch forest.