Epicypta limnophila Chandler, 1981*

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

Epicypta limnophila Chandler, 1981*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: genus: Epicypta; specificEpithet: limnophila; scientificNameAuthorship: Chandler, 1981; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Espoo; locality: Nuuksio, Siikajaervi ; decimalLatitude: 60.288; decimalLongitude: 24.541; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2005-5-13 /6-13; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0339 ; recordedBy: J. Ilmonen; individualCount: 2; sex: male; otherCatalogNumbers: MYCE-JS-2013-0343; Taxon: genus: Epicypta; specificEpithet: limnophila; scientificNameAuthorship: Chandler, 1981; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Espoo; locality: Matalajaervi ; decimalLatitude: 60.247; decimalLongitude: 24.687; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-21 /8-23; habitat: swampy lake shore; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. Epicypta limnophila is known from USA, British Isles ( Chandler 1981), Central Europe and Fennoscandia ( Chandler 2004, Kjaerandsen 2012). In Fennoscandia recorded from Russian Karelia ( Polevoi 2000, citing Zaitzev 1987), Norway ( Anonymous 2010) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen 2012). New for Finland.

Ecology

In the British Isles the species is associated with wet woodlands and bogs, suggesting that it may develop on decaying herbaceous vegetation, rather than dead wood, unlike the related species, Epicypta aterrima (Zetterstedt) and Epicypta scatophora (Perris) ( Chandler 1981). Finnish sampling sites are a herb-rich forest and a swampy lake shore.

Conservation

Red-listed in Norway (VU, Anonymous 2010, Gammelmo et al. 2010).