Sciophila fuliginosa Holmgren, 1883

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

Sciophila fuliginosa Holmgren, 1883

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0098 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.846; decimalLongitude: 29.471; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-14 /7-10; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Jakovlev; J. Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality: Kilpisjärvi, Saana; verbatimElevation: 560 m; decimalLatitude: 69.035; decimalLongitude: 20.839; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-8-1 /15; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

The species appears to have an Arctic distribution. Described from Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Matotschkin Sharr ( Holmgren 1883), later found in the Russian Arctic, Taimyr Peninsula ( Lundström 1915), in Alaska and northern Canada ( Zaitzev 1982b). In Fennoscandia only known from Finland ( Hackman 1980, Kjaerandsen 2012).

Ecology

Finnish collecting sites are a mountain birch forest with herb-rich vegetation (Saana fell) and a luxuriant headwater stream surrounded by an old-growth coniferous forest with a mixture of deciduous trees ( Törmäoja). Immature stages are unknown.