Urytalpa galdes Hedmark & Kjaerandsen, 2009*

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

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scientific name

Urytalpa galdes Hedmark & Kjaerandsen, 2009*
status

 

Urytalpa galdes Hedmark & Kjaerandsen, 2009*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev and J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; municipality: Muonio; locality: Pallas-Yllaestunturi National Park ; decimalLatitude: 68.018; decimalLongitude: 24.153; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-7-15/8-14; habitat: old-growth forest, Myrtillus type GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0033 ; 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: 2013-6-29/7-29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES GoogleMaps

Distribution

Fennoscandian. The species is previously known only from the type locality in northern Sweden (Lule Lapmark, Kjaerandsen et al. 2009). The first record from Finland.

Ecology

Nothing is known of the life histories of Urytalpa spp.; they may be similar to those of Pyratula spp. Finnish collecting sites are old-growth boreal forests.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Keroplatidae

Genus

Urytalpa