Mesaxymyia kerteszi (Duda, 1930)

Polevoi, Alexei, Ruokolainen, Anna & Shorohova, Ekaterina, 2018, Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 22175-22175 : 22175

Mesaxymyia kerteszi (Duda, 1930)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; sex: 1 female; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Karelia; locality: Kivach Nature Reserve ; verbatimLatitude: 62.281; verbatimLongitude: 33.967; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk emergence trap; eventDate: 2016-05-26 /06-2; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Diagnosis

Medium-sized flies with darkened wings (Fig. 7).

Distribution

Europe. Known by a few records from the European part of Russia, Ukraine and Slovakia ( Humala and Polevoi 2009, Jakovlev and Polevoi 1997, Martinovský and Roháček 1993).

Ecology

Poorly known. Larvae were collected from spruce wood ( Mamaev and Krivosheina 1966) and adults found sitting on very damp fir logs ( Martinovský and Roháček 1993). According to Krivosheina (1991), larvae of Axymyiidae may colonise newly fallen trunks and stay there for several years. This species was collected from a wind-broken aspen, colonised by 7 species of macrofungi Table 1.