Mycomya (Mycomyopsis) fennica Vaeisaenen , 1979

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

Mycomya (Mycomyopsis) fennica Vaeisaenen, 1979

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 31; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio aboensis; verbatimLocality: Turku, Pomponrahka; decimalLatitude: 60.508; decimalLongitude: 22.250; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-8-15/10-3; habitat: rich fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Jari Ilmonen; individualCount: 24; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; verbatimLocality: Espoo, Matalajärvi; verbatimElevation: 23 m; decimalLatitude: 60.247; decimalLongitude: 24.686; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-21/10-20; habitat: swampy lake shore

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0011 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Tornio, Rakanjänkkä; decimalLatitude: 65.890; decimalLongitude: 24.317; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-6/9-26; habitat: rich spring fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0023 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Sodankylä, Heinäaapa; decimalLatitude: 67.596; decimalLongitude: 26.883; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-10/9-19; habitat: rich spring fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0013 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Kittilä, Akaharamanvuoma; decimalLatitude: 67.593; decimalLongitude: 25.302; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-8-2/9-3; habitat: intermediate rich flark fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0031 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 7; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Kittilä, Vasanvuoma; decimalLatitude: 67.582; decimalLongitude: 25.203; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: N. Vartija; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-8-2/9-3; habitat: rich fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. Known from northern Europe, Estonia, Austria, Germany and NW Russia ( Chandler 2004). In Fennoscandia only known from Norway ( Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008) and Finland ( Väisänen 1984).

Ecology

The species is most likely associated with peatlands ( Väisänen 1984, Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008). All new material presented here was collected from mires, invariably from minerotrophic rich fens. Immature stages are unknown.