Impleta consorta Plassmann, 1978

Polevoi, Alexei, Ruokolainen, Anna & Shorohova, Ekaterina, 2018, Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 22175-22175 : 22175

Impleta consorta Plassmann, 1978

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; sex: 1 male,; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Karelia; locality: Kivach Nature Reserve ; verbatimLatitude: 62.281; verbatimLongitude: 33.967; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk emergence trap; eventDate: 2016-07-21 /08-1; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Diagnosis

Small gnat, distinguished by wing venation (see http://sciaroidea.info/taxonomy/42011) and characters of the male genitalia (Fig. 8; see also Matile (1983), fig. 1).

Distribution

Palaearctic. Known by a few specimens from Sweden, Poland, Finland and Norway ( Kurina 2003, J. Kjærandsen pers. comm.). Recently reported from East Russia ( Polevoi and Barkalov 2017).

Ecology

Poorly known. Some specimens were caught with light traps ( Plassmann 1980, Kurina 2003, J. Kjærandsen pers. comm.). This species was collected from a wind-broken aspen, colonised by 15 species of macrofungi Table 1.

Conservation

Red-listed in Finland, category NT ( Penttinen et al. 2010).