Mycomya (Mycomya) thula 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) thula Vaeisaenen, 1984***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0071 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 3; sex: 2 males, 1 female; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Joutenoja; decimalLatitude: 67.821; decimalLongitude: 29.440; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16 /9-18; habitat: headwater stream, seminatural boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0006 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; 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: 2012-7-10 /8-16; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. The description of M. thula (Fig. 8) was based on a holotype male from USA, Alaska ( Väisänen 1984), with no further records. New for the Palaearctic region and the first record of this species from Finland.

Ecology

Extremely poorly known species. Finnish collecting sites are headwater streams with rich riparian vegetation, surrounded by coniferous forests. Immature stages are unknown.