Mycetophila monstera Maximova, 2002***

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

Mycetophila monstera Maximova, 2002***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0391 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; S. Lapinniemi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality: Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Röyninkuru; verbatimElevation: 380 m; decimalLatitude: 68.146; decimalLongitude: 24.071; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-6-5/7-6; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth spruce forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Palaearctic. The species was recently described from West Siberia ( Maximova 2002), here reported for the first time from Europe and Finland.

Ecology

Apparently a forest-dwelling, boreal species. The Finnish sampling site is a headwater stream surrounded by an old-growth spruce forest. Immature stages are unknown.