Trichonta palustris 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

Trichonta palustris Maximova, 2002***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0004 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio kuusamoensis; verbatimLocality: Salla, Kuntasjoki, Värriö Strict Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 320 m; decimalLatitude: 67.749; decimalLongitude: 29.617; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013; verbatimEventDate: 2013-6-4/29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Palaearctic. The species was described from West Siberia, Kutznetskyi Alatau Nature Reserve, based on a holotype male ( Maximova 2002). Here reported for the first time from Europe. The Finnish sampling locality is in NE Lapland, north boreal zone.

Ecology

The holotype male was collected from a swamp ( Maximova 2002). The Malaise trapping locality in Värriö is a headwater stream with wet margins, including seepages and rich riparian vegetation, surrounded by old-growth boreal forest. Immature stages are unknown.