Microphorella praecox (Loew, 1864)

Kahanpaeae, Jere, 2013, A second update to the checklist of Finnish long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a re-evaluation of the status of Hydrophoruscallosoma Frey, 1915, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 976-976 : 976

Classification: Dolichopodidae Rank: SpeciesType of treatment: Redescription or species observationextantHabitat: terrestrialRoot classification: 8

Microphorella praecox (Loew, 1864)

Materials

Occurrence: recordedBy: Antti Haarto; individualCount: 2; sex: females; otherCatalogNumbers: labelcode:AHa12-000675,AHa12-000674; Taxon: scientificName: Microphorellapraecox; order: Diptera; family: Dolichopodidae; scientificNameAuthorship: (Loew, 1864); Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ks; municipality: Kuusamo; locality: Jaekaelaemutka ; verbatimCoordinates: 735797:361788; verbatimCoordinateSystem: ykj; decimalLatitude: 66.292; decimalLongitude: 29.623; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Antti Haarto; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2010-07-10 /15; Record Level: collectionCode: Priv. Coll. A. Haarto; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Scattered records across north and central Europe from Finland to Italy ( Pollet 2013), although the discovery of the closely related Microphorella similis Brooks & Ulrich, 2012 casts some doubt on old distribution data for Microphorella praecox ( Brooks and Ulrich 2012). The presence of Microphorella praecox in Finland was considered doubtful by Kahanpää and Winqvist (2005). This new record confirms the presence of this species in Finland.