Mycomya (Mycomya) safena Vaeisaenen , 1984*

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 (Mycomya) safena Vaeisaenen, 1984*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0383 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; S. Lapinniemi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality: Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Röyninkuru; verbatimElevation: 380 m; decimalLatitude: 68.146; decimalLongitude: 24.071; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-6-5/7-6; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth spruce forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0041 ; 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; verbatimEventDate: 2013-6-29/7-29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. Described from the USA and Canada ( Väisänen 1984). Recently reported by Polevoi ( Polevoi 2010) for the first time from the Palaearctic region (NW Russia, Murmansk region). New for Finland.

Ecology

The Finnish collecting sites are headwater streams surrounded by old-growth boreal, spruce dominated forests in Lapland. Immature stages are unknown.